Intercultural communication principles

Growing up, my parents had difficulty understanding the communal culture of the American society, in which I naturally absorbed in my developmental process. I am a first generation American. My parents are both immigrants: my mother from Colombia and my father from Puerto Rico. They had difficulty understanding events I would want to take part in with my friends that are an everyday part of an American childhood, such as sleepovers and after-school activities. Although being bilingual now…

An Invisible Subject, Space ‘The central theme of this book is social and personal space and man 's perception of it’ (Hall, E.T 1966, p. 1). This is the first sentence of a book named ‘The hidden dimension’. Space and the perception of it, people normally imagine some physical objects, or something we can see through eyes. However, when we carefully think about the space, it is actually not just an object that can touch by our hands, can be something cannot see through our eyes but still can…

the context classification of a culture. And within the two different cultural contexts, identified by Hall, there is a contrasting view of time, which is considered to be a non-verbal tool for communication. The study of how different perspectives of time within different cultures affect communication is called chronemics. There are two cultural views associated with chronemics, monochronic or polychronic, and sometimes referred to as m-time and p-time. Low context cultures are monochronic…

This report identifies the challenges faced by the modern health professionals in understanding the complexities of providing culturally competent Aboriginal health, physiotherapy and rehabilitation care within the Australian primary health care system. Non-Indigenous health care professionals cannot truly understand the true complexity of the past impacts of colonialism, the political process and the community’s prejudice effects on the Indigenous health status. This report intends to inspire…

Concerning the Toraja people of Sulawesi, Indonesia and the resentment the grew toward tourist when it came to altering ceremonies to attract tourist, Scollon and Scollon present the reasons for the resentment in the form of four cultural differences. These differences are ideology, socialization, discourse, and face systems. These four cultural differences served as motivation and explanation for the rejection of tourism by the Toraja people. Scollon and Scollon describe ideology as the groups…

The purpose of this essay is to allow myself, the nursing student to demonstrate understanding of how culture and health influence the nursing career, using a reflective essay. Australia offers a multicultural society, which simply means we are culturally and ethnically diverse. Nationally, we relate to more than 270 ancestries (Australian Human Rights Commission, n.d.). Cultural bias is pervasive, negative, or unconscious beliefs, attitudes or differences in understanding of a culture (Kirwan…

I think it is important to study abroad because it rewards students with the invaluable gift of being completely immersed in oftentimes, what is a new culture. Having an intercultural experience is so extremely important in order to broaden one’s sense of cultural understanding, and cultural competency. I think living in the U.S., one can often become rather ethnocentric, and lose sight of just how diverse the rest of the world is, and because of that we view cultural differences amongst…

Introduction: As the United States of America becomes more culturally diverse in its population, the need to address that diversity within our schools is rapidly increasing. This increase in diversity is creating a challenge for educators across the nation because our nation’s teaching force remains predominately white (Caucasian)and English speaking in make-up and the number of culturally diverse teachers is in a state of decline (Gay, 2003). Educators must accept the fact that students who…

Brianne has experienced a smooth transition to the kindergarten program as a first-year student. She has demonstrated an ability to quickly adjust and learn the routines and schedules within our classroom. For example, Brianne is confident when entering our classroom in the morning, she changes her shoes, gets her Mr. Zippy, and finds her rock with her name when signing in. This responsibility that Brianne shows at the beginning of the day, is also demonstrated to/for / against any given time…

Intercultural education for social cohesion Abstract: Presenting the fundamental guiding principle for intercultural approaches to education as viewed by UNESCO, all this playing a vital role in building the social cohesion. This paper focused meaning and basic concept of culture, intercultural and multicultural education. With this trying to make clear differentiation between all this concepts which are basically under one roof . Keywords: Culture, Cross culture, Inter-cultural, Multicultural…