Your classmate, an international student, speaks very softly and rarely makes eye contact. You judge this behavior in a negative manner and see it as rude and out of the ordinary since you have always been taught to make direct eye contact and speak
audibly. Your negative assumption about the other student's behavior could be classified as
Ethnocentrism
Communication accommodation theory
World-mindedness
Attributional complexity

Mankiw attributes – chapter 1 and his 10 principles – differences in living standards within a countryover time and across countries at a moment in time to: a. the presence or absence of inflation and unemployment. b. the allocation of resources between private markets and the public sector. c. those that have dealt successfully with the efficiency v. equality tradeoff and those that haven’t. d. differences in productivity. e. ones that think at the margin and respond to incentives and those that don’t.