Comm 265 From Albuquerque to Las Cruces In the past year‚ the cultural experience that has had the most effect on my life is moving from Albuquerque to Las Cruces. Most people would not consider this a major cultural change. I didn’t think so at first either. However‚ when I moved to Las Cruces I noticed that Las Cruces was a small city‚ built around a family community. The small size of the city was hard to get used to and I noticed that most of the business are family owned and run which
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Lanita N. Clark Masking Poor Communication COM 200 Mrs. Mary A. Witt August 22‚ 2011 The article “Masking Poor Communication” discussed how miscommunication is misunderstood and perceived as something. What someone is saying can easily be taken for something else. Everyone has their own perception. This can have a negative impact on the people who are close to you. In the article it stated that “people commonly believe that they communicate better with close friends than strangers
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The key to effective intercultural communication is adopting a position of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the belief that each culture is of equal value‚ and none should be superior than the other. Many people in the world are Ethnocentric‚ this means that they believe that they have a better culture than someone else‚ due to what they have seen or heard. Technology plays a huge role towards ethnocentric people‚ as they usually have only seen one side of the culture. Journalists nowadays
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Assignment One: Miscommunication April Sherrod COM 200 Interpersonal Communication Terrance Frazier May 21‚ 2012 I agree with the article provided “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication” because I have had plenty of encounters with my loved ones where I was meaning one thing and they were interpreting what I said a completely different way and thinking I meant something totally different from what I actually meant. Have you ever had a miscommunication with someone close to
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causes or leads directly to the behaviour of the nation or people from that nation. McSweeney is also concerned that Hofstede ’s work has led others to believe that influential national cultures exist and that this work is based on evidence of a poor quality. McSweeney contends‚ therefore‚ that Hofstede ’s project is ’a misguided attempt to measure the unmeasurable. ’ The complaint is that‚ as Albert Einstein once observed: ’Not everything that counts can be counted‚ and not everything that can
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DEFINE AND EXPLAIN THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL FLOW OF INFORMATION IN CREATING A GLOBAL CULTURE. International flow of information is the movement of messages across national boundaries between and among two or more national and cultural systems and it is also a term that is used to describe a field of inquiry and research that consists of the transfer of messages in the form of information and data through individuals‚ groups‚ governments and technologies as well as the study of the institutions
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questioning from the other spouse. When something is said‚ it is the other spouse’s responsibility to make sure they are clear in what they are hearing. Without this tactic‚ there will be misinterpretations between the spouses. This creates unhealthy communication between the spouses. My Fiancé Kevin and I were able to communicate beautifully the first two and half years of our relationship. Then my granddaughter needed to come and live with us. Her name is Victorya and she has been with us since
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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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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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An Intercultural Analysis between China and Colombia Ashford University AN INTERCULTURAL ANALYSIS BETWEEN TWO NATIONS 2 Intercultural and interpersonal communication is a facet of everyday life. These components are important when we consider the role they play in global communication and the business world as a whole. For example‚ consider a business transaction between individuals from two distinct countries such as Colombia
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