My View on Cross-cultural Communication in Today's World
Have you seen the latest Hollywood movie "War of the worlds"? Have you visited the Disneyland that is newly opened in Hong Kong? As the world has become smaller day-by-day, the cross-cultural communications are taking place more frequently. However, in spite of the amusements, have you ever considered the gains and loses in this communication?
So today I am going to talk about pros and cons of cross-cultural communication in today's world, and how to overcome the defects and make progress in it.
In my point of view, the cross-cultural communication can be divided into two parts: One plays active role, which I call win-win communication. And the other with the adverse effect,
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With each group that is uprooted or assimilated, a culture vanishes. Linguists estimate that every two weeks a language dies, taking with it unique ways of thinking, communicating, and living--and generations of irreplaceable knowledge.
Thus, how to repel culture invasion without holding back the win-win cross-cultural communication?
Firstly, the self-consciousness in native culture is the premise of communication. The features of a nation's culture make his passport in global communication. Compare the cross-cultural communication to a fair, where various cultures are traded. Only by the awareness of advantages can we keep our culture distinctive and make up our sell points. Without the solid foundation of native culture, we have nothing to communicate with the foreign culture, which only leads to the wholesale acceptance or worship of everything foreign. On the other hand, as long as we realize the disadvantages of the culture and feel oblige to improve the native culture; the self-consciousness will be the motivation in our communication.
Secondly, the platform of equals shall be the foundation of cross-cultural communication. All cultures, despite the power of their nations, should share the same status. If you set yourself on a pedestal, you will not be able to discover the excellence of foreign culture. And that will turn a communication into conservative
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