Intercultural Communication Interview

Because communication between two people of different cultures is very challenging, there has been extensive research/studies conducted on this topic. This idea was also very interesting to me because I attended a highly diverse high school, in which we had a Global Studies program where international students were invited to come and learn at our school. The immersion of the different cultures was very difficult to adapt to at first because it was new to a lot of us students who have never attended a school where international students were amongst us in the halls, but as the days went on it became normal to me.

The theorist of intercultural communication that could help solve the problem with communication with the United States and Mexico can come from different fields such as psychology, anthropology, and sociology (Chen & Starosta, 2000). It has been numerous theories use to help intercultural communication to primarily focused on the adjustment, adaptation, and research on each country (Huntington, 2005).

To guide my research, a variety of methods was implored. A few years ago, I was afforded the opportunity to study the development of Intercultural Education policies in communities of African descent in Ecuador. At the time, the country had started to make the plight of Afro-Ecuadorians more a part of the national discourse, and many new initiatives addressing the economic and social development of Afro-Ecuadorians had been erected. During the research study, I spent time visiting schools and community organizations aimed at fomenting educational opportunities for Afro-Ecuadorians in Chota Valley, Guayaquil, and Esmeraldas- regions that have the highest population of Afro-Ecuadorians. Although I was overwhelmed by the veracity of organizers, government officials, and school personnel committed to educational advancement for students of African descent, it was the efforts of leaders in Esmeraldas that

My respondent is a close friend who is a college-aged, 1.5 Generation self-identified Filipina-American, who eventually relocated to San Diego, California. For the purpose of confidentiality, she will be referred to as “Ayla.” This interview paper will focus on her early life as an immigrant, her views on culture, and her assimilation experience into mainstream American society as a young Filipina with strong ethnic roots, overall.

Intercultural communication is the circumstance in which people from diverse cultural backgrounds are engaged in communication (Samovar/Porter, 2001). Like all communication, intercultural communication is contextual which includes setting, situation, the people involved, and the relationship of those people.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines intercultural as “between or among people of different cultures” (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 2017). Definition alone, however, is not important to understand the nuances of how the intercultural communication affects our lives in this ever-globalizing meshing that is at the core of our universe now and will be part of our lives for the foreseeable future. The world we live in now not just requires us to understand the intercultural intricacies, it indeed demands that we master the art of communicating across multiple, diverse, and often, contrasting cultures that exist in the World today.

As of September 5, 2015 I have conducted my intercultural interview. The interview was conducted with Claire “Con” Meyer, a 27 year old agender individual from New Zealand. Contact was made via a skype call, facilitated by my friend Christine Donham, Con’s girlfriend. Although Christine had told me about Con, this was my first meeting with them . I asked them the following questions:

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.

Inter culture communication is the form of communication which is used to share information across different cultures and social group, It is also used in a wide range of communication issues that arise within an organisation of individuals of different educational backgrounds, Religious Social ethnic.

The organization I have chosen is NEA (National Education Association) that deals with communicating cross-cultural and what teachers should know about diversity. The Website address is http://iteslj.org/Articles/Pratt-Johnson-CrossCultural.html which is found in the NEA link. The article explains the need for educators in terms of culturally responsive and competent as schools and classrooms become increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse. The article highlights five important points of cultural difference with which all teachers should be aware when teaching students of diverse backgrounds. These five points are ways of knowing, ways of solving problems, ways of communicating nonverbally, ways of learning, and ways of dealing

Intercultural communication is a form of communication that aims to share information across different cultures and social groups. A form of communication is language. It is often viewed as an important factor in relation to the cultural perspective. The cultural perspective refers to the way that individuals are shaped by their environments as well as social and cultural factors. It affects how people relate to one another and their ability to communicate. Language is essential in the study and practice of global mission.

The ability to grow and be successful in any society depends on its ability to transcend limitations of intercultural communication. The chief aim of social groupings is to harness the capacity of the human mind. The ability to channel this process information during communication impacts our social connections to one another, especially in intercultural communication.

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

Intercultural communication is commonly explained as an interaction between people of 'different cultures whether defined in terms of racial, ethnic or socioeconomic differences.' Human communication consists of verbal and nonverbal messages (language and gestures) which are shaped by gender, social class or culture. Thus, what perimeters define the intercultural exchange and what primary messages do we need or try to convey?

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.