Soliz and Giles discuss Communication Accommodation Theory and identify four general behaviors that are possible when confronting another culture, these are 1) Accommodation, 2) Non-accommodation, 3) Reluctant Accommodation, 4) Avoidant Communication. Given these possibilities, which do you think is the most ethically justifiable? Some questions you might consider when thinking about this are whether people should have to accommodate or adjust to others at all. Is it fair to ask everyone to know the dominant culture's way of speaking/acting when the dominant culture doesn't have to know others? Should we all be learning each other's cultures, or should we strive for one common blended culture?

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