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Explain How People From Different Backgrounds May Use And/Or Interpret Communication Methods In Different Ways

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Explain how people from different backgrounds may use and/ or interpret communication methods in different ways The knowledge and understanding of the world is often influenced by the culture and family; but it can also be influenced by the area you’re living in as well as the community as that are going to be the main one that influences you from a young age. Families will often share experience, knowledge as well as language, and it can often be misinterpreted by people from other families; word and phrases can mean one thing to one family but another thing to a different family as it could have a different meaning. “Tasty” to one family could mean that they like the food but when another family uses the world tasty it could mean that they …show more content…

Tone is another thing that be misinterpreted by other as when someone raises their c=voice to one group of people it means that they are angry are annoyed but to other it can mean that they are excited yet in different culture this can be the subtle difference in cultures; different cultures will often have picked up different things like when looking at the west it is very common to use communication methods as emails and texting. Other culture prefer to communicate through telephones or written word; and generation can also affect the language as young people will have developed new language to accompany the new technology which may seem horrible to older people. The way in which you communicate will be influenced by your experiences. Knowledge and understanding brings confidence and ability and it is these that will form the basis of our adopted style of

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