Intercultural Communication Analysis
Background:
I encountered several intercultural communication problems with my uncle, he was shifted to Mainland China and living there because of the potential development of there, so I wasn’t familiar about him and we weren’t so close in relationship. Recently he came to Hong Kong and paid a visit to our family for several weeks, I was astounded when I heard that he would live with us, I was panic to communication with a different culture person.
As expected, he has different way to handle things and have China-oriented norms. For an example, he didn’t like to line up while waiting for transportation including MTR and Bus, although I stopped him to cut in line, but he explained to me that it can be faster, and though a deep conversation, …show more content…
The description is my uncle did not queue up and try to cut the line in order to get into transport on time. Then, the interpretation is because my uncle wants to go to a place as soon as possible and he afraid of late, so he tries to cut the line and get into the transport. The evaluation is my uncle start to impatient so he can only cut the line and get on transport. Not only for the social practices, but also for Umbrella Movement, the description is he criticize the student that against government is destroy the peace of Hong Kong and make the relationship between Hong Kong and Mainland China become worse. The interpretation is because this kind of movement is rarely happening in China, so my uncle thinks that this movement is a bad action. Additionally, the evaluation is he feels anxious about this kind of actions, so he criticize Hongkongers about that movement.
Secondly, I would like to use Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions to discuss the cultural conflict, according to “Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values” by Geert Hofstede (1980), cultural dimensions can be general separate into time orientation, power distance, uncertainty avoidance and individualism. I will focus on power distance and individualism and briefly discuss the impact of these two
I encountered several intercultural communication problems with my uncle, he was shifted to Mainland China and living there because of the potential development of there, so I wasn’t familiar about him and we weren’t so close in relationship. Recently he came to Hong Kong and paid a visit to our family for several weeks, I was astounded when I heard that he would live with us, I was panic to communication with a different culture person.
As expected, he has different way to handle things and have China-oriented norms. For an example, he didn’t like to line up while waiting for transportation including MTR and Bus, although I stopped him to cut in line, but he explained to me that it can be faster, and though a deep conversation, …show more content…
The description is my uncle did not queue up and try to cut the line in order to get into transport on time. Then, the interpretation is because my uncle wants to go to a place as soon as possible and he afraid of late, so he tries to cut the line and get into the transport. The evaluation is my uncle start to impatient so he can only cut the line and get on transport. Not only for the social practices, but also for Umbrella Movement, the description is he criticize the student that against government is destroy the peace of Hong Kong and make the relationship between Hong Kong and Mainland China become worse. The interpretation is because this kind of movement is rarely happening in China, so my uncle thinks that this movement is a bad action. Additionally, the evaluation is he feels anxious about this kind of actions, so he criticize Hongkongers about that movement.
Secondly, I would like to use Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions to discuss the cultural conflict, according to “Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values” by Geert Hofstede (1980), cultural dimensions can be general separate into time orientation, power distance, uncertainty avoidance and individualism. I will focus on power distance and individualism and briefly discuss the impact of these two