Sarita And Bir: A Form Of Cross-Cultural Communication

In Santha Rama Rau’s memoir “By Any Other Name”, social organization causes conflict for Santha and Premila in the Anglo-Indian school. In Santha’s school, the social organization is quickly depicted as soon as she enters her classroom as the English teacher treats the Indian students differently than the other students. “They were all sitting at the back of the room and I went to join them” (10). This event portrays how students of different cultural heritage are treated differently than students of the same descent as the English teacher. There is a deep cultural divide in the school with how different students are treated based on their differences, this is shown when Santha and Premila take their first test. “We had our test today, and

This memoir was quite the interesting one and left some bit of a mystery for us to guess on finding out or to never find out. The main point of the memoir in my opinion was to understand that people will be treated differently due to that one person's culture. As well as how others see things differently due to other people's culture and their preferences to that. So in this memoir they were in India and I'm guessing or assuming that Premila’s teacher must have had a conflict with Indians on how they do things or how they act.“We had our test today, she made me and the other Indians sit at the back of the room,with a desk between each one”(Rama Rau page 39 ) First evolve why would she do that seems cruel and unfair on how she just put the Indian children in the back for no reason or even an explanation why? “Why was that, darling” she said it was because Indians cheat,” Premila added. “So I don't think we should go back to that school.”(Rama Rau page 39). So this bothers me on how that Premila’s teacher has to be like this does she just hate Indians and their culture and or cultural way they do things, wearing certain clothes,and or how they celebrate things culturally because her one voice can change on how a society view people around the world due to that culture with that one statement. Even though I can understand where their teachers coming from a little bit tough but, tough but not really that doesn't mean that

In her essay “My Two Lives,” Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian American, explains the balance between the identities of the two countries inside her heart, as well as her psychological struggle between her bicultural identities. She describes herself as an Indian-American because she moved with her family from India to the United States when she was very young. However, confused with her identity through her growth, she feels that she doesn’t belong to either of the two countries because of its completely different cultures. When she is at home, she deals with her parents in an Indian way, which is strange compared to the American way that she come across outside. She says that she has a distinctive identity in spite of her Indian appearance

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You know that feeling of home whether it’s with family members or even your loved ones? I don’t think that home is something that is automatically there, I believe that it is something that’s created. I learned that lesson through the eyes of one of my older friends who came from India with his brother when he was 16 in order to make a living. My friend Vikas, told me everything he had to do and the struggles he conquered in order to make his own successful business here in the U.S. Some things he told be reminded me of interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, and intracultural communication. He had to have a lot of communication with his friend who also happened to be from India and some new friends and colleagues he met through his journey. Of course there was homesickness and the occasional depression, but that didn’t stop him from creating his now successful business.

Today, we live in a culturally diverse society due to globalization. As our world grows, expands and become increasingly more interconnected, the need for effective interpersonal communication among differing cultures has become apparent. When people from different cultures interact with one another there is intercultural communication because different cultures create different interpretation and expectations about what is seen as competent behaviors that will enable the construction of shared meanings.

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).

This section discusses the literature that has been reviewed for this study. It consists of three main sections. It starts with intercultural communication. It is followed by English communication problem. The last one is the importance of English communication.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s second story “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” presents the relationship between an Indian family and their friend Mr. Pirzada, a Bangladeshi migrant. The narrator of the story is a ten year old girl Lilia who is not aware of the history of the Indian subcontinent related to freedom struggle, civil war of East Pakistani etc. We see that Mr. Pirzada, Lilia’s father and mother take dinner with one another while at the same time they listen to the evening news. Though they are now in America but they want to know what is going on in their native places. It shows their longings for their respective countries though they are

In Lahiri's "a temporary matter" the author presents a couple’s failing marriage after the early death of a baby. Along with this, in Lahiri's "interpreter of maladies" the author describes a family that is disconnected from each other as they take a trip to India. Overall, the author, Jhumpa Lahiri, presents the necessity of communication in relationships, through the presentation of two failing marriages.

Communication with a track in intercultural communication and diversity is a field within social sciences. Communication majors explore why people interact the way they do, and how different theories impact their actions. The purpose as stated by T. Smith, A. Smith, and Hamby (2014) is, “...include providing information, making an argument, persuading people to agree or to act in a certain way, soliciting funds, or explaining behaviors, treatments, or possible outcomes” (p. 298). The emphasis in intercultural communication provides more opportunity for explaining behaviors, providing information, and making an argument. The Missouri State website states, “To help you better navigate diverse workplaces and populations…improves your understanding of communication similarities and differences among diverse groups and develops practical applications for applying our communication skills in those settings” (2017). Intercultural diversity is a field of study that adequately applies to everyday life in America. Diversity is not always a topic that people understand, and therefore can cause problems or situations unknowingly, this field is intended to help teach and stop those incidents.

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 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.

The physical, social, enthusiastic, and story separates in A Passage to India come about straightforwardly in the dehumanization of both the Colonizer and the Colonized and male and female characters. Dehumanization is to deny of human qualities or characteristics, strip of distinction. Dehumanization happens when one encounters another as sub-human as opposed to a reasoning, feeling, human person. Dehumanization can be seen on an account level in cases where the storyteller portrays characters, for example, Ronny, in a way that makes them appear to be unequipped for exhibiting human thought and

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