"[TRUE-FALSE] Culture is inherited genetically {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Self reference criterion should be eliminated {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] A marketer with a highly developed self reference criterion is able to adapt to a new culture quickly and easily {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] In high-context cultures, the nonverbal part of the message carries most of the information {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Compared to a low-context culture, high-context cultures perceive nonverbal communications elements as being more informative {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] When people work on several fronts simultaneously instead of pursuing a single task, the culture is polychronic {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Consumers' shared values mean shared behavior {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Different languages can result in different methods of thinking {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] More than half of the world's spoken languages could disappear in this century {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] According to the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, people have an innate ability to learn a language in a natural way regardless of how old they are {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Language acquisition may have a biological component {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The Chinese language system requires the reader to go from left to right and from bottom to top {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The U.Spopulation has very low foreign-language fluency {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Being analytical helps in learning a foreign language {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Esperanto is a universal language {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Esperanto is an easy language to learn {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Cognitive processing of words varies based on whether such words are written in logographic or alphabetic scripts {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Advertising copy should be interpreted rather than translated {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The system of dating (i.e., day, month, and year) used in the United States in terms of sequence or ordering is different from the one used elsewhere {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] People routinely communicate with each other in a nonverbal manner {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] In the United States, there is a direct relationship between time and the importance of a matter {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Due to cultural universals, the meanings of time, space, and friendship do not vary from country to country {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The meanings of time, space, and friendship tend to be culture free {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Perceptions of time are culture bound {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] In the case of procedural-traditional time, the activity is more relevant than the amount of time spent on it {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] While making a conversation, a comfortable distance between parties is relatively constant in all parts of the world {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The United States is a very legalistic society, and Americans are both specific and explicit in terms of agreement {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] North Americans' straightforward approach in indicating disagreement is inappropriate in most places of the world {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Americans are unique in the sense that they develop friendship quickly and deeply {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The American practice of using first names is admired in most parts of the world {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Long silence and a lack of eye contact, to non-Americans, are neither unusual nor improper {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Race (or ethnic origin) is the only valid way to classify subcultures {FALSE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] Demographic variables can be used to identify subcultures within a nation {TRUE}" "[TRUE-FALSE] The use of ethnic actors alone in an advertisement is not meaningful unless consumers can be aroused first to evoke ethnic self-awareness {TRUE}"