abroad: An Intercultural communication experience Florencia Gonzalez Intercultural Communication Instructor: Prof. Cees Hamelink Spring Semester 2011 Zeppelin University Introduction We are 6‚952‚296‚627 million of people in the world and 243 countries in which the citizens have different cultures. Since centuries ago‚ when the men started to travel‚ the humanity begun to understand a little bit more about other cultures‚ now a days with the mass media and living in the communication era‚ we know
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has become a part of our nature to interact with others from different backgrounds‚ considering how diverse today’s society is. The way we behave and the attitudes we form towards those of different cultures is called intercultural competence. With respect to Assessing Intercultural Competence‚ it also relates to those that interact with different cultures‚ regardless of the location itself (Deardorff‚ 2011). I’d like to consider myself fairly well at being interculturally competent. I am confident
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Intercultural Experience Abstract I collaborated with the Reclamation Project to tutor young Burmese children in Fort Wayne‚ Indiana‚ to complete my cultural immersion project. Throughout this paper‚ I will explain where my tutoring took place and my reasoning for selecting this activity. I also will describe in detail my outlook on the Burmese population in Fort Wayne before this activity and how it changed following the completion of this activity. Finally‚ I will illustrate how this activity
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interact in that world. We believe the source of how a culture views the world can be found in its deep structure. It is this deep structure that unifies and makes each culture unique. Meaning of the Deep Structure of Culture Although many intercultural communication problems occur on the interpersonal level‚ most serious confrontations and misunderstandings are as a result of cultural differences that go to the basic core of what it means to be a member of one culture or another. Cultural collisions
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Communication Paper Amanda Moore Week 4 November 12‚ 2012 I would like to take this time in welcoming you to this presentation on communication marketing in health care. We will first be identifying different and most common communication used by consumers and health care providers‚ such as e-mail‚ a web-based forum‚ and/or electronic medical records just to name a few. We will also be discussing the benefits to the patients‚ an aspect
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Abstract：This paper studies the vital role that facial expression plays in intercultural communication‚ which emphasizes the impor- tance of nonverbal communication‚ focusing on the use of facial ex- pression. This paper first provides a definition of nonverbal communi- cation and then makes a comparison between verbal and nonverbal communication. Then it presents the readers a clearer idea about cul- tural variations of facial expression in nonverbal communication so people can
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Intercultural Communication in Phoenix Management Services Vanessa Rodriguez BUS600 Management Communications with Technology Tools May17‚ 2013 Dr. Frank Czarny Intercultural Communication in Phoenix Management Services Introduction Intercultural communication is known as the base for international business. This paper will analyze intercultural communication focusing on Phoenix Management Services which is an organization with multicultural people
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Summary of Intercultural Communicaion: A Critical Introduction (2011) As to give a brief summary of Intercultural Communicaion: A Critical Introduction (2011)‚ the author of this book strongly wishes to convey the importance of intercultural communication in nowadays‚ which could be explained as globalized world‚ which has brought our lives into numerous encounters to different cultures (pp.1). He comes up with many case studies‚ which could be more easily understandable of such terms which
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This work contains EDU 639 Week 6 Final Paper Intercultural Communication Plan for a Multicultural Classroom Education - General Education Writing the Final Paper The Final Paper will require you to describe your community demographics and predict the type of diversity you might expect to find in your classroom. You will then identify at least three (3) cases which represent some of the different groups found in your community. If you truly live in a mono-cultural area then‚ simply choose
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The barriers to intercultural communication and the solving approaches Although intercultural communication is highly thought of‚ the barriers in the intercultural communication area still exist owing to three aspects cultural identity‚ national cultural dimensions and individual intercultural competence. To analyse the reasons for these barriers and approach these issues are essential. Intercultural communication is defined as a form of communication that aims to share information across different
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