The Importance Of Intercultural Communication

According to my experiences and different sources of theories, the challenges aside from languages which we have faced in communicating with people from a different country are dialects and complicated term, nonverbal languages, and languages disabilities. The first challenge we have confronted in communication with people from a different country is dialects. Each country consists of several regions which might have diverse dialects and complex terms, consequently it is difficult for non-native person, who don’t completely understand that languages to interpret the real meaning. Therefore, dialectical diversity can be a cause of misunderstanding and gaps between communication. Another barrier aside from different languages communication is

Culture communication comes together to symbolize both our differences and similarities and it connects us when we come from the same cultures, and divides us when we come from different. On September 12, I interviewed my fellow classmate Leon Elkins. Low context culture is where Leon is from. First, Leon speaks with complete honesty and considers himself shy. Leon exemplified being very honest when I asked him if he had free time in his schedule and he said: “absolutely not” because his priorities consist of work and being a full time student. Leon doesn't approve of anyone stepping into his personal space he told me. Leon also only trusts certain people and not everyone right away. Confusion was my initial reaction after learning more about

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.

Films are considered to be a very valuable tool when examining intercultural communications, because they depict the way people and cultures communicate their identities. In The Woman In Gold, Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee teams up with a young but determined lawyer, Randy Schoenberg (Reynolds), to reclaim the painting of her aunt, and with it, a part of her heritage. The painting, completed by the very famous Gustav Klimt, was stolen from her home during World War II. It was then displayed at the Belvedere, becoming what the movie refers to as the “Mona Lisa of Austria.” Due to its immense importance to the Austrian society and the personal connection to Mrs. Altmann, the battle for the masterpiece is both an intercultural and an interpersonal conflict for the characters. In many ways, The Woman In Gold, serves as a good example for the theories and concepts of intercultural communication.

I feel the ability to communicate with people across different cultural backgrounds is a strength that I have developed over time. Intercultural communication is the term given to communication that takes place between people whose cultural beliefs values and behaviours differ from one another (Buchanan 2015, p. 44). Cultural knowledge that is developed through socialisation and transferred from one generation to the next, shapes the way people communicate both verbally and nonverbally. It influences an individual’s perception of the world which in turn impacts intrapersonal communication; self-talk, and interpersonal communication; expressing meaning in a variety of settings (Buchanan 2015, p. 34; Kreunus et al. 2011, p. 48). When a person constructs meaning from a message, they attempt to understand what is spoken, how it is spoken and the context of the communication (Kreunus et al. 2011, p. 48). Semantic barriers can occur during when people interpret a messages by associating the meaning to their own cultural understanding and knowledge in order for it to make sense to them (ibid; Tylor, Kossen & Charmaine 2005, p. 271). The following principles can be applied to improve intercultural communication and increase cultural sensitivity; remove cultural barriers; decrease ethnocentrism, challenge biases and stereotypes, avoiding over-attribution bias, be aware of cultural differences to adjust communication (Buchanan 2015, p. 43; Tylor, Kossen & Charmaine 2005, p. 269).

With the development of cultural organisation,the intercultural communication has become more ligual and more significant than ever before (Wang, 2007). As an international language, English has played an prominent role in making the communication easy between two people with different cultural backgrounds. As a result, the EFL education has concluded the communicative sufficiency as one of the important goals of English as Foreign Language teaching. It seems that intercultural communication will be a successful, as long as the speaker has achieved high qualification in the enlish languag.As it is shown in many studies that the failure in understandings in intercultural communication are largely based by the miscommunication of nonverbal behaviours (Arasaratnam & Banerjee, 2007; Ma, 1996). It is, therefore, significant to reach the awareness of the nonverbal communication in the accessment of intercultural communication.

​A person usually lives trying to find a compromise between his own cultural, religious, ethnic, socioeconomic beliefs and those of others. I observed this predominantly when I started my study abroad where my culture has experienced different assessments with only one result: to be included or to go back home. This suffering can be on a small scale affecting one aspect of culture when we agree or disagree with a friend or any affiliate. However, the big cultural challenge is when we face other ethnicities whose culture, religion, social norms, and moralities are different or in most cases are contradicting. Then, our individual intelligences and wisdom appear to be our guidance. The more educated a person is, the faster they interact with others.

The world today is characterized by an ever growing number of contacts resulting in communication between people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In the process of globalization, the relationship between people differ racially, ethnically, nationally, and regionally. These groups become such a normative thing and seen as a good sign of a process of integration and social diversity. It is important for one to experience intercultural communication. It can help society grow in knowing different elements of different cultures. It can help create a positive awareness of our own and others cultures, by being able to observe similarities and differences in cultural behaviors, attitudes, and experiences. I have recently been able to experience intercultural communication with Central Washington University’s AUAP students. Once a week I would go into an AUAP classroom and help them with the classroom activities. This experience allowed me to get over my uncertainty avoidance and self- disclose information with the AUAP students in order to connect with them more. Before going into the classroom, I was very anxious and uncertain of what might happen during my time with the students. After I met them I felt more reassured that they were very nice and it was going to be a good experience for me to volunteer in their classroom. This then led to self- disclosed information being exchanged between the AUAP students and myself. After some information was disclosed

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).

rent individuals or groups, with different cultural descents. Culture, religion, and race, have all been created by us humans, and this has created a system of domination in the past between different races because of the European colonizers. In the book Intercultural Communication by Kathryn Sorrells, She explains, “As Europeans expanded their reach around the globe in the 15th to 19th centuries, intercultural contact on a scale perviously unknown occurred. In theses “encounters,” any “differences” and most especially differences as they were marked or represented through the body were constructed as significant and were infused with meaning through a hierarchical racial system that justified and promoted domination and exploitation” (Page 60-61). This shows us that centuries ago, the idea of race was created and has been passed along through many generations. If this idea of what we call “race” was never created there would not be any parting between individuals and how these individuals communicate with each other based on their cultures. In the article “Place and Kinship,” by Donald Andrew Grinde, he gives us a great example of how history influenced intercultural interactions for his culture and race. In this article Grinde says, “I also understood, from the start, that by sticking to a realistic interpretation of American Indian history from the Native American viewpoint I would not gain friends and influence people in the upper echelons of the historical profession

A person usually lives trying to find a compromise between his own cultural, religious, ethnic, socioeconomic beliefs and those of others. I observed this predominantly when I started my study abroad where my culture has experienced different assessments with only one result: to be included or to go back home. This suffering can be on a small scale affecting one aspect of culture when we agree or disagree with a friend or any affiliate. However, the big cultural challenge is when we face other ethnicities whose culture, religion, social norms, and moralities are different or in most cases are contradicting. Then, our individual intelligences and wisdom appear to be our guidance. The more educated a person is, the faster they interact with others.

This intercultural relationship took place this year. it was with one of my co workers. We have a friendship relationship and clicked pretty well together and rather fast. When we work together we are very happy to see each other, as this is the only time we really see each other. Outside of work, we are both busy. This friendship is great, and is very balanced. We don’t always agree with each other and talk it out, but we also agree and feels good. With Kate our intercultural relationship changed within stages over time, developed feelings and situations through the relationship, and key concepts.

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

About 20 years ago, it was impossible to imagine that the world will become global. Cultural extension has appeared with the blurring of frames, and different cultures can freely interact with each other. A breakthrough in technology spawned the special role of intercultural communication. Today intercultural communication is an important part of everyday life. Every day on TV or in the Internet we have seen the development of relations between different countries. However, in most cases they couldn’t find a compromise on foreign policy. Why did it happen? Because each nation has its own value orientation. As a rule, they rarely coincide with each other, thereby they are creating the insuperable obstacles to make a dialogue. The thaw in intercultural communication is possible when people can study the identity of specific cultures and correct understand historical and political genetic code.