Professional Communication Cultural Sensitivity Paper Linda Ginder Grand Canyon University - NUR 502 July 10‚ 2013 Professional Communication Cultural Sensitivity Paper No culture is growing at a faster pace than the Hispanic population‚ surpassing African Americans as the largest minority population in the United States. The Hispanic population increased from 35.3 million to 50.5 million in 2010. The intention of this paper is to increase the awareness and understanding of cultural competency
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------------------------------------------------- CAPE Communication Studies Programme ------------------------------------------------- This blog is for students of the Community College of St Vincent & the Grenadines who are to be entered for CAPE Communication Studies examination in May 2008. The blog contains information about the course syllabus‚ administration and assignments as well as the course content. Wednesday‚ March 05‚ 2008 The expository presentation for CAPE Communication Studies Internal Assessmblies
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Cross-Cultural Conflicts in the Corning-Vitro Joint Venture Corning Inc. is a US company that has a record of some 40 successful global joint ventures over the course of 73 years. Their success rate in joint ventures is over 80 percent which is well above the 50 percent average for successful foreign and national alliances. Through their years of success and experience‚ their formula for determining whether to partner with another organization boiled down to two factors. First‚ will the
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Cultural communication plays an important role in the interactions between law enforcement and the community. The concept that law enforcement need to handle their communications with people of color better. In the video‚ Racial Profiling‚ a young man discussed his experiences with law enforcement and how he was profiled based on his race. He stated they just assumed he was terrorist and was a part of terrorist organization‚ however‚ they never asked him what culture he was. As law enforcement‚ communication
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My Study of Communication Amanda J. Russell-Sconiers COM321/BCB1330A Instructor Anayat Durrani July 29‚ 2013 Study of Communication “Communication is a complex process that can be viewed in many ways” (Trenholm‚ 2008). No matter how complex the process is‚ “The need for communication is basic. It allows us to form connections and build community by sharing stories” (Trenholm‚ 2008). People have different motivations for studying communication
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Question 1 In order to compare and contrast different cultures‚ one must first assess each of the countries included in the research in accordance with a cultural scale. Particularly in this case the Geert-Hofstede dimensions provide a strong base for comparison. By evaluating the the five dimensions of Geert-Hofstede‚ for both the Netherlands and the UK‚ a comparison can be made. The five dimensions as provided by Geert- Hofstede are; (1) power distance or PDI‚ (2) individualism or IDV
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Brazil is the largest Country in South America‚ it borders every other country of the continent except Chile and Ecuador and has a mixture of many different cultures. In my cross-cultural study I will be comparing Australia to Brazil in relation to gender touching on characteristics such as the workforce‚ the educational system and family of these two cultures. The Brazilian education system includes both public (federal‚ state and municipal) and private institutions ranging from pre-school to
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Each nation has its own culture. This unique value is performed in several ways of communicating‚ especially non-verbal communication. Outsourced movie (2006) is a typical example which demonstrated the vast distinctions between two countries in two continents: India and America. The first difference between Indian and American is the way they use hands for eating. In India‚ left hand means “unclear” because it is used for matters related to going to the bathroom. When receiving or giving anything
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Odirile MachaDate : 15 October 2012 | 1. Tyco Employees’ Frustration turnaround 3 2. Tyco’s Strategy to Overcome Cultural Change barriers 5 3. Tyco’s CEO: Rebuild corporate reputation: Message package to Employees 8 4. Issues emerging in communicating change externally: Tyco Case 10 5. Bibliography 12 * Tyco Employees’ Frustration turnaround (Gerard & Teurfs 1995; Palmer et al. 2009) urges that practice dialogue is commonly used
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Acculturation‚ Pluralism and Cross-Cultural Awareness in the Classroom First‚ acculturation is the process of adopting the dominant group’s cultural patterns; some groups prefer to keep‚ or maintain the original culture. Consequently that group will not have become highly cultured to American culture. Second‚ Pluralism ideology believes that they should keep their identity and culture. Such ideas have advantages and disadvantages‚ because most of the case the dominant groups are not willing to
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