Doris Ingersoll
University of Phoenix
Comm. /360
Valerie Fuller
April 18, 2012
Intercultural Communication Paper Demonstrate an example of poor intercultural communication that significantly affected international commerce or foreign policy with United States and Mexico. Mexico is a country of intercultural relevance neighboring among the American continent. The United States of America is the traditional believe in a different in tradition. The norms between the two counties are the ethic, language with in intercultural communication.
In the United States there over a 313 million people in the population and it the third largest country in the world. It said the large portion of the population is 64 percent is white, 16 percent Hispanics, 13 percent is Black, 1 percent is Native American, and 5 percent is Asians and Pacific Islanders. Mexico has 113.7 million people in it population and growing 1.10 percent annually each year (Huntington, 2005). The population in Mexico is roughly 60 percent mixed with Spanish and indigenous heritage, various indigenous groups are 30 percent, and European ancestry is 9 percent. In largest cities in world is Mexico City the capital of Mexico has 22 million is in the metropolitan area. The two counties differ in their cultural patterns language, beliefs, and values. The American speaks mostly English and the Mexican speaks mostly spinach. Some of the people in both counties can speak both languages to communication with each other’s. The two counties have cultural patterns in beliefs, the United States is 82 percent of the population professes some religious beliefs and most of American is Christians. The Mexican people are mostly Roman Catholic, Mexican do not go to church services regularly but history of all Mexicans, Catholic holiday is celebrated, and the religion influenced the cultural, attitudes (Berry & Maciel, 2000). The values in both counties are differing
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