Stumbling Box In Intercultural Communication By Larey Barna

“What is global humanities?” Nowadays, a society expecting children to be a global human. Students study English hard and learning what is going in the world. But is it that enough? Once become an adult, we might encounter a situation that we get involves with foreigners. We are not able to manage an actual deep and meaningful communication with only English skill. We are all from different places and no one has the same background. “Stumbling box in Intercultural Communication” by Larey Barna and the three videos are convincing crucial methods when we interact with others.
The first video had many scenes where the man and the family, both felt uncomfortable and unpleasant because of the cultural misunderstanding. We watched about the American baseball player who was having lunch with a Japanese family. Firstly, he felt offended because the family was slurping noodles,
The American or England guy, left the girl a white flower next to the bike. Neighbors around her house misunderstood that the girl had an accident and passed away. Then, the girl came out from her house and each other had an awkward atmosphere. In the man’s homeland, people send flowers to people who you love, but in Italy chrysanthemums resemble funeral. The meaning of “white flower” had a elephantine difference between the two regions. This video represent nonverbal misinterpritation in Barna’s article. People in diffrent cultural backgrounds have divergent understnding of same kind of body language or movement. Forexamole, silence can communicate agreement, awe, regret, apathy, hostility and other feelings. On an interpersonal level, silence is used to promote peace, harmony and cooperation. Also, asian countries such as India and Pakistan value silence more than Western communities. I thought nonverbal barriers can not be completly eradicated, but