Background: I encountered several intercultural communication problems with my uncle‚ he was shifted to Mainland China and living there because of the potential development of there‚ so I wasn’t familiar about him and we weren’t so close in relationship. Recently he came to Hong Kong and paid a visit to our family for several weeks‚ I was astounded when I heard that he would live with us‚ I was panic to communication with a different culture person. As expected‚ he has different way to handle things
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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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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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suggest all people have physiological‚ safety‚ acceptance‚ self-esteem‚ and self-actualization needs. Considering these things it is easy to see our essential common ground. And this is where we can begin our comprehension of others. ffective communication with people of different cultures is especially challenging. Cultures provide people with ways of thinking--ways of seeing‚ hearing‚ and interpreting the world. Thus the same words can mean different things to people from different cultures‚ even
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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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Lora Kluber Intercultural Communications Essay November 1‚ 2011 My stepmother was born in Masan‚ the countryside of Korea‚ to a family of four daughters. My step-grandfather was a hard working man. He had a small taxi and truck business. My mother’s youth was during the recovering of the war. My mom has told me stories about growing up. She rarely got nice things unlike how a lot of Korean children now get today. However‚ she says growing up was not as hard as most kids during the time
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emeraldinsight.com/1356-3289.htm Silence during intercultural communication: a case study Misa Fujio Tokyo Fuji University‚ Tokyo‚ Japan Keywords Communication‚ Cross-cultural management‚ Languages‚ United States of America‚ Japan Abstract This is a case study of USA-Japan intercultural communication‚ analyzing a one-hour meeting between a US manager‚ a Japanese manager and a Japanese junior staff member of a US company operating in Japan. The study focuses on miscommunication caused by pragmatic
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choice between “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
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History Impacts Intercultural Communication • Why would it be important to examine the role of history in Intercultural Communication? When we examine the role of history in Intercultural Communication‚ we gain an understanding of how our past influences our communication skills with people from other cultures. We need to learn and understand why we communicate the way we do. It can be very helpful in improving our relations with other cultures. Studying the histories of cultures that are
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NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION AS A BARRIER OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION NAME : M DHONI PERDANA CLASS : PBI-3C NIM : 09202241054 ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY 2011 CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND Culture is a complex concept. There are various definitions of culture‚ ranging from broad to narrow. Moreover‚ the concept of culture changes as society develops. Presently‚ many definitions of culture indicate the close relationship between culture and communication. With the
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