Identity and Intercultural Communication To begin the concept of identity and intercultural communication‚ one should first understand the concept of identity. In this chapter‚ Identity is developed or created by the development of “self” In other words‚ our self-concept‚ in spurts‚ through communication over a long period of time. Also‚ there are six aspects of identities listed‚ aspect one stated that identities are created through communication. This occurs when messages are exchanged between
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Key terms Chapter 1 Abstract word: a word that identifies an idea or feeling as opposed to a concrete object Audience: the person or persons with whom you are communicating. Communication: the process of sending and receiving messages. Concrete word: a word that identifies something the senses can perceive. Connotation: the subjective or emotional feeling associated with a word. Denotation: The literal‚ dictionary meaning of a word. E-mail: a message transmitted electronically over a computer
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movements of employees occur‚ resulting in a growing diversity at the workplace. As this trend takes place between cultures‚ breakdown in communication is inevitable. This is known as the barriers to intercultural communication. These barriers hinder effective communication and hold back globalization of the world. Seven barriers to intercultural communications have been identified and will be further discussed. The following barriers consist of Anxiety; Assuming Similarity Instead of Difference;
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Intercultural Communication Issues University of Phoenix Dr. Julie Hu SOC/315 June 15‚ 2008 Introduction In today’s workforce a person will be able to see a very diverse crowd‚ including employees‚ supervisors and managers. Diversity is having different sorts of cultures‚ nationalities and genders mixed together. Unfortunately‚ there are barriers in which may cause problems among the workers including language as a communication issue. Although English may be the language all of the
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Intercultural Communication in the Workplace Communication is one of the vital keys for a successful business atmosphere. “There is no better way to build trust than through communication” (Grady‚ 2003‚ pg 40). About 5 years ago while I was working at a bank‚ there was a miscommunication between a co-worker and myself. Lily was originally from Honk-Kong and worked as the loan Analyst for the bank. Due to her heavy accent‚ and inability to form proper sentences‚ I would almost always ask her to
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Intercultural Communication In The Workplace There is much diversity at Canyon Springs. There are numerous ethnic groups‚ which include African-American‚ Asian descent‚ Mexican-American and other Spanish speaking individuals; Africans‚ Filipinos‚ Native Americans‚ and Indians are also included. Canyon Springs ’ Health and Safety Officer (HSO) is of Asian descent; she came to the United States‚ with her parents‚ from Indonesia as a teen. She completed high school in Orange County‚ California and
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Being a competent intercultural communicator is being able to utilize the six dialectic of intercultural communication during communication practices. Dialectic refers to a method of logic based on the principle of idea generating its opposite‚ leading to a reconciliation of the opposites (Martin and Nakayama 77). These dialectics include cultural-individual‚ personal-contextual‚ differences-similarities‚ static-dynamic‚ history/past-present/future‚ and privilege disadvantage dialectics. Using these
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Belgium Culture – Intercultural communication Our lecture started with well-known demographic facts about Belgium - the population equals to 10‚511‚000‚ 15% of which are immigrants (1‚570‚000). In Belgium‚ Catholicism is the most widespread religion. There are also Moslems‚ Jews and Protestants. In general‚ people are open-minded about other religions and of course different nationalities. The cultural diversity is enriched by international and local immigration. In the last hundred years the
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Intercultural communication and conflicts The communication between different cultures is very difficult. Intercultural communication can lead to misunderstanding and confusion. You may offend someone without even knowing it. Nonverbal communication is challenge as well such as handshakes‚ eye contact‚ hug‚ and etc. These problems happened so many times from my fiancée who is from America and me who is from South Korea. One day‚ my father visited to our place for holiday. When my father walked
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“pop” and alternatives‚ people tend to choose the former one so as to gaining a valid position in the pop camp‚ or called majority. This can be sometimes defined as peer pressure which leads us being obedient to mainstream. There is a mass Communication theory called “the spiral of silence” which is quite similar with the phenomenon I mentioned above. Spiral of silence theory describes the process by which one opinion becomes dominant as those who perceive their opinion to be in the minority do
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