Cross-dressing

Every culture has its own significance, like meal, clothes, music, dance, language and of course gestures. People differentiate a various types of gestures in different cultures, particularly in business conversations. In official conversations, people should pay special attention to the gestures of speakers. By using appropriate gestures, we can greet and say goodbye to an interlocutor can send information and show our own psychic condition. By the shown gesture, we can injure and abuse or…

with the values, ethics, and standards of the NASW (2008) Code of Ethics. Cultural competence requires self-awareness, cultural humility, and the commitment to understanding and embracing culture as central to effective practice” (NASW, 2015, p. 4). Cross-cultural communication helps broaden the knowledge and deepen the respect for the infinite values and norms of individuals from the diversified social…

Culture is what sets a society or civilization apart from others and gives it a unique identity based upon that society’s shared ideas, beliefs, morals, customs, and behaviors. Despite the many differences between cultures around the globe, five major characteristics normally define any society’s culture. The first being that culture is learned, or passed down through knowledge, rather than inherited. A culture is also integrated with many different aspects that often tie in to each other and…

To many people, the concept of culture represents a way of life that distinguishes one group of people from another. There are several factors to consider when determining what makes up a culture. The major pillars are laws, customs, traditions, beliefs, languages, and values. Each concept is extremely vital in the total consideration of cultural. It is important to remember that no two cultures are the same. Egypt is one of the countries that possesses an extreme amount of culture. Egypt has…

exchange of information between two people. Cross-cultural communication can be simply looked at as the study of how persons from varied cultural backgrounds communicate amongst themselves and also across the different cultures. This is of great value as it allows us not only to appreciate the diversity in culture but also provides us with the opportunity to learn from the various cultures. The understanding of someone else's culture smooth's the progress of cross cultural communication and this…

A cultural encounter is the act of directly interacting with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds (Honner & Hoppi, 2004). There are two goals of cultural encounters. One goal is to generate a wide variety of responses to promote verbal and nonverbal communication accurately and appropriately in each culturally different context. The second goal is to continuously interact with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds which assists in validating, modifying existing values, beliefs,…

sensitive, reflective, tolerant, and efficient during interactions with individuals of different cultures (Behrnd & Porzelt, 2012). Arasaratnam and Doerfel (2005) identify having prior cross-cultural experiences, a global understanding of culture without ethnocentrism, and listening skills that allow one to be proficient in cross-cultural communication as important components of intercultural competence. Intercultural competency is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity for individuals…

On January 30, 2016, I will be leaving the comforts of New England to spend my spring semester studying abroad in Florence, Italy. My plan is to travel around Europe, including to France, Spain, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, etc. Other than making the quick trip from Maine to Canada, this will be my first time outside of America. I have made several goals for myself while abroad, with the overall goal of expanding my cultural horizons. I also have goals for developing my cultural awareness…

Assuming things about someone else's culture is a hard case of how one's culture affects the way one views the world. This happens a lot with different texts like in Two Kinds, Hapa and An Indian Father's Plea. All of which have different cultural beliefs on the world and this affects the way they view the world. Modernization significantly impacts the way one views others around the world. Firstly in the novel excerpt “two kinds” by Amy Tan a daughter is pressured by her mom to be as good as…

Gordon, Assimilation In this reading Gordon defines the assimilation theory as “a process of interpretation and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiments, and attitudes of other persons or groups, and, by sharing their cultural experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common cultural life.” Gordon focuses on cultural and structural marital assimilation. He defines cultural assimilation as the adoption of aspects of a new dominant culture. Gordon also…