I decide to make my assignment in intercultural communication analysis choice. I choose to interact with my friend Anaida. Anaida is Armenian, but was born in a country just south of Russia named Georgia. Anaida and I met at her house, she invited me to eat dinner and we spent about 3 hours talking. First, we started discussing her language, she stated that in her country everybody speaks Armenian and Russian. She also stated that her family is very close, and are very worried about what other thinks about them. An example was when a girl leaves with a boy overnight and doesn’t come home that night, the girl is looked at bad and her family makes the boy marry the girl. Most girls marry at a very young age. She got married at the age of 15.
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Her family migrated because of the Genocide happening in that time. The Genocide was when turkey government set a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in their empire. About 1.5 million Armenian were killed and the other kicked out of the country. Now, Armenians are all over the world because of the genocide. One of the important values of Armenians is to provide great hospitality and also emphasize generosity, and respect to their …show more content…
The first one being acculturation which is a process of learning rules and norms of a different culture. Acculturation was one the concept that came into mind because Anaida has really learned the rules and norms of Americans. For example as when she would ask for gum “give me gum” Some people would take it as a command and as rude. Now that she has acculturated and has learned rules and norms she says, “can I have some gum”? The next concept that came into mind was the importance of culture, specifically sensitivity to cultural difference. In which states that American society has changed from assimilationist attitude to one that values cultural diversity which is great. This came into mind because when Anaida explained to me her wedding traditions and I asked if they still kept the same culture in America she said they do. I think that is great personally, I always love to see other peoples customs and cultures and Is very nice that as American we value culture diversity. Lastly, the last concept that came into mind was verbal communication. During our conversation, we discussed on how she would hang up and not say bye and would just hang up. The message was received as kind of rude. It would express a feeling of her being mad at me. Later on, when I saw her I asked why she hung up one me, and told her it was a big deal it was normal for her. Now that she has been in America for 10 years or so, she
Her family migrated because of the Genocide happening in that time. The Genocide was when turkey government set a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in their empire. About 1.5 million Armenian were killed and the other kicked out of the country. Now, Armenians are all over the world because of the genocide. One of the important values of Armenians is to provide great hospitality and also emphasize generosity, and respect to their …show more content…
The first one being acculturation which is a process of learning rules and norms of a different culture. Acculturation was one the concept that came into mind because Anaida has really learned the rules and norms of Americans. For example as when she would ask for gum “give me gum” Some people would take it as a command and as rude. Now that she has acculturated and has learned rules and norms she says, “can I have some gum”? The next concept that came into mind was the importance of culture, specifically sensitivity to cultural difference. In which states that American society has changed from assimilationist attitude to one that values cultural diversity which is great. This came into mind because when Anaida explained to me her wedding traditions and I asked if they still kept the same culture in America she said they do. I think that is great personally, I always love to see other peoples customs and cultures and Is very nice that as American we value culture diversity. Lastly, the last concept that came into mind was verbal communication. During our conversation, we discussed on how she would hang up and not say bye and would just hang up. The message was received as kind of rude. It would express a feeling of her being mad at me. Later on, when I saw her I asked why she hung up one me, and told her it was a big deal it was normal for her. Now that she has been in America for 10 years or so, she