Cross Cultural Communication Selection And Review

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I felt confident going into it. I did not make any script, so we were basically doing it “off the cuff.” I thought it might feel more natural that way. I feel good about coming to a compromise toward the end of the video when Mrs. Lee stated that she would be willing to give Lia her medications if a Shaman and doctor worked together to come up with a treatment plan for Lia.

Many assume that their daily life and basic education is enough to be fluent in communication, gender and culture, but they are severely mistaken. As our society becomes more diverse the need to learn about communication and culture increases ever more, for with communication and understanding of one's identification, we can limit and decrease the bigotry in the world. Therefore, allowing to build a stronger foundation for a better society.

Previous researchers have found that for a person to achieve better and more effective communication competence, it is necessary to develop skills that allow an appropriate participation in specific situations. The ability to listen, ask questions, and express concepts or ideas effectively is an important part of communication competence. Intercultural communication presents an unexplored and challenging field that needs to be understood for a better development in communication. (Dillon and McKenzie, 1998). The variables of listening depend on the different perceptions that a person obtains through their cultural background. Furthermore, culture often affects the structure of consciousness in the act of listening. When a person seeks to

Today, we are going to discuss and review How to Communicate Effectively in Cross-Cultural Communication.

Intercultural communication competence refers to the ability of an individual to adapt and communicate appropriately and effectively across a wide array of cultural contexts. That is to say, for an individual to be considered an intercultural communicator they must understand other’s cultures as well as they understand their own, and apply this understanding to communication (Chen 1-2). With the increasing diversity at the workplace, school and other social settings, it has become increasingly important to learn how to communicate with people from a diverse array of cultures. More importantly, adapting to a more effective intercultural communication competence model provides us with learning opportunities occasioned by the interaction with people from other backgrounds. The intercultural communication competence model comes with some key components including tolerance for uncertainty, self-knowledge, and motivation. The greatest and most important of these aspects is motivation. An individual must be willing to foster relationships with people from a different cultural background. If an individual lacks the willingness to promote intercultural relationships, then other aspects of the intercultural communication model become moot.

In today’s society, our culture is made up of many different types of people from all different backgrounds. Over time, intercultural communications have become essential not only in the business world, but everyday life as well. Intercultural communications can best be defined as the study of communication throughout a variety of social groups/cultures, and how these differences effect the way we interact with one another. Our nation is made up of individuals with very dissimilar religious, educational, social, and ethnic backgrounds, so naturally a wide range of opinions and beliefs are formed and expressed, and the need to understand these differences arises. Although we mostly experience intercultural communications in the US, there is also international communications to consider, which is more associated with government and business concerns on the global level.

Doing business in a foreign country is not easy, because many people do not know how to communicate effectively with others of different cultures and background. Statistics show that more than half of international joint ventures fail within two to three years because of a lack of cultural Intelligence. Cultural differences became the main barriers of cross-cultural communication, and therefore overcoming cross-cultural communication barriers has become the common problems in the business world today. Most of the foreigners still cannot fit into a different culture when they have to transfer to another country to work with different people, even they were international business major or have learned the basic concept of international management in their colleges. Therefore, it is better to have someone who are familiar with the culture.

There are various barriers, which affect communication within an organisation ranging from environmental factors such as the technology used or workplace design to staffing issues such as perception and cultural barriers.

Cross-cultural communication is the process of exchanging meaningful and unambiguous information across cultural boundaries, in a way that preserves mutual respect and minimizes antagonism, that is, it looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds endeavour to communicate. The study of cross-cultural communication was originally found within businesses and the government both seeking to expand globally. Communication is interactive, so an important influence on its effectiveness is our relationship with others. All communication is cultural -- it draws on ways we have learned to speak and give nonverbal messages. We do not always

On the whole, this paper will identify four other major possible cross-cultural issues as analysed below.

Bearing that we all come from varying cultures and cultural backgrounds do dictate a lot the type of reactions we receive from the pubic as well as the way we react to other people around us, there is need to use our communication tools as an access tool to the people of the different culture. Being a Chinese who has lived in the USA for 4 years, I have come to realize that the use of communication accommodation has been one of the best tools to overcome the barriers that can be between me and the majority of the cultures around me.

It is a challenge to communicate effectively with people that from different countries and cultures. Due to the different backgrounds and cultures, there are a number of barriers to effective cross-cultural communication. The same words have different meanings to people that from different cultures, even the people that speak the same language. In my own opinion, there are three aspects of cross-cultural communication barriers: they are language, behavior and emotion.

During the implementation of the research plan, I did have a few issues and changes I had to adjust with a few methods that I had previously stated. The one idea I completely removed from my plan was the idea of traveling to Houston with Bhavik to visit with him and his family members due to the busy holiday schedule, nothing could be worked out. On the plus side, using social media he was able to send me videos and snapchats of Hindu decorations, food and videos of him spending time with his family and although the clips were short it gave a good sense of how the culture was still instilled in their family even though they now reside in the United States. As I was getting started off on the project and my research the conversation seemed to be easier said than done. Although, I was very fortunate enough to know someone of another culture beforehand for the project ultimately it created a challenging task during the discussions making it slightly harder to stay on topic. After the first few meetings, we planned to get together and focus on correcting the issue of staying on topic and it seemed to decrease after time and the flow of cultural communication was more achievable and easier to stay on the subject.