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Kalbfleisch, M., and J. Cody (1995). Gender, Power, and Communication in Human Relationships. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Publishers, p. 151.

With the growing of globalization, opportunities of intercultural communication become more common to individuals’ everyday life. Thus, it is of vital importance that people understand linguistic relativity and language ideologies in order to avoid misunderstandings and achieve effective intercultural communication.

James Carey states in his essay “Communication as Culture”, that when information is received in transmission form of communication, “Questions arise as to the effects of this on audiences” (20). In other words producers of the information pay attention to the fact that people who receive the information act according to their intention. One of the finest examples of this process; are advertisements which are produced by certain companies who want people to buy their products. However, many people react differently to advertisements, which means some people will be affected by them and will purchase the product, and the others will not even pay attention to it or will not bother themselves to buy the product. To prove this statement I will

In today’s world, globalization is rapidly dominating and mobilizing multicultural interactions among leaders (Bücker & Poutsma, 2010). The Eurocentric Germanizing authoritative leadership approach is no longer dominating in a colorful society of people (NewsBlaze, 2007). As globalization comes into realization, more and more people of various gender, race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, and even disability will continue to change the course of leadership (Nahavandi, 2014; NewsBlaze, 2007). Successful leaders are challenged to adapt new methods to seek out effective communication and address every human being with compassion and empathy (Harvard Business Review, 2011).

Whether we realize it or not, the way that we communicate with others has been a total of all that we have learned and the way that we perceive it. People's cultural upbringing conjures up different images, attitudes, and behaviors. Cultural beliefs, values, norms, and practices all influence communication. This analysis will describe examples of how culture’s can influence communication styles and patterns.

Communication can be described as an information exchange with the aim of reaching a common understanding - through written or spoken means, actions or symbols (Boddy, 2017). Inter-cultural communication therefore, is communication between different cultures. This essay will explore issues faced during inter-cultural communication, with reference to my own personal experience. With ever-evolving technology and more companies taking advantage of globalisation than ever before, good cross-cultural communication has never been more important; therefore it is essential that issues arising during inter-cultural communication can be appropriately resolved to ensure the most effective communication. (Hybels & Weaver, 2012).

To study culture is to also study a people's means of communication—it is to investigate a group's way of life, to consider the thought processes behind the choices they make, and to realize the reasons and means by which they maintain their relationships. Communication and culture are inseparable due to the reality that one cannot exist without the other. This concept of acknowledging the connectedness of culture and communication is iterated in the Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication when William B. Gudykunst and Bella Mody use this quote by anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher Edward T. Hall, "Culture is communication and communication is culture" (Gudykunst & Mody, 2004, p.26).  The claim that communication and culture are invariably connected is supported by the universally understood truth that communication styles vary around the world due to differences in environmental contexts, the prevalence of regionally specific issues, and the value of relationships within a cultural group (Gudykunst & Mody, 2004). Examples of this phenomenon are the differences between the methods that people of the United States use to communicate with each other and the methods that people of other countries utilize to fulfill the same task. The discrepancies relating to verbal and nonverbal communication between different cultures prove that communication is cultural, and culture is built on communication.

In society today, people have friends that belong to numerous diverse cultural groups. When it comes to meeting new people from unique cultural groups, the form of communication are all different. Those that do not use the correct form of communication when encountering new people from different ethnicity, it can lead to misunderstanding and tremendous conflicts. For instance, I am Vietnamese and in our culture, the way people communicate determines their characteristics, personalities, and how educated they are. This is extremely important in my culture since it reveals how we treat adults and if we admire them or not. On the other hand, my friend Yary, who is Cambodian, her way of communicating defines how respectful one is, based on their tone. The Cambodian and the Vietnamese’s lifestyle tends to have multiple similarities, but also have a few differences about certain topics. When it comes to communicating, the situational context, physical appearance, and self presentation all plays a different role in every heritage. To learn extend my knowledge about different cultures and their way of communicating, I interviewed my friend Yary, to compare and contrast our way of communicating through our culture.

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview someone I knew who had come to the United States from a foreign country, to better understand intercultural communication. Intercultural communication is defined as “Communication between people from different cultural backgrounds.” Pg. (187). As I like to put it, this means to “bridge the culture gap”. Quite a few years ago, I had an experience with communicating outside of my culture when my family received a foreign exchange student named Guilherme, or as we called him, “Gui.” Gui, is from Sao Paulo, Brazil. As one might imagine, it was a difficult relationship to begin with, because of a language barrier, but over time it became easier and easier. Now, Gui and I are the best of friends, which allowed me to conduct a very fun and pleasant interview with him.

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.

This essay is about an Australian independent girl Emily who wishes to expand her business in Japan. So, she decided to meet Mr. Hamasaki 55 year old single Japanese man who is the manager of the popular store in Japan. Where Emily is not sure how to conduct business with Japanese and what are the things need to be considered during a first meeting. In this case, Emily is facing the intercultural communication differences. Communication is most important quality to work for anyone in the international society. Therefore, Hosfstede’s dimension is used to advise her. Culture communication style are analysed in terms of its own values and practices and also when two different cultures have both similarities and differences in terms of interact it occurs a intercultural communication which involves interpreting what is occurring at the point when communication is taking place (Varner & Beamer 2010). Intercultural communication can be defined as “the differences between the global understanding of cultures and changes in conflicts and ideologies” (Eunson, Baden 2016, p.528).

"We didn 't all come over on the same ship, but we 're all in the same boat."- Bernard Baruch

Ethnicity—a term that is used to refer to a wide variety of groups who might share a language, historical origin, religion, identification with a common nation-state, or cultural system

Today, in this modern world, women have gained a significant place in society. In the early days, while they were only responsible for the households and taking care of children, today they are as powerful as men are in the society in terms of economic, social and legal. However, although their achievement and improvement in various fields, the linguistic behavior that they are both implicitly and explicitly taught from the moment they are born is influenced by the norms and the values of the society in which they live. In this essay, I will examine my transcription with regards to differences in language between men and women, in accordance with the arguments of power and powerlessness, supported by Robin Lakoff and Deborah Tannen.