Intercultural communication

Communication skills are human essential method to understand each other and form a society. However a lot of people are worried about their communication skills. I am one of them. We can learn new skills and develop our communication skills through practice. The three skills I want to improve is that Intercultural Skills, Converting “YOU” statements to “I” statements, and Understanding Communication Climates. Just like any other countries, we have our own culture and traditional but not…

These situations can be caused by culture, history, and identity. These factors determine how we communicate effectively, or ineffectively, in intercultural conditions. The most important factor being language and the adaptation among these different cultural identities, whether it be verbal or non verbal. The identity and intercultural communication among Black/African-American women in the Stetson University community can be best defined, as one student said, as “not unified”. Within the…

Nonverbal communication is very important in conversations between people. It is also very problematic, what can be observed by every person individually, when received message was misunderstood or taken not as the sender wanted it to be decoded. However, if nonverbal conversation is such a problem in regular contact between people, it can be assumed that intercultural communication may be even more problematic. Stella Ting-Toomey (1999: 114) in her book wrote that nonverbal communication in…

The essay is divided into three parts. First part is media and intercultural communication. The essay will discuss the media and journalism become the mediator in intercultural communication, the positive and negative influence of media on intercultural communication and what kind of principles and suggestions should journalism take to become a better mediator in this part. The second part is new media and intercultural communication. In this part, the essay will talk about the…

When a person from one culture sends a message to a person from a different culture, this process is known as intercultural communication (McDaniel, Samnovar & Porter, 2012). We interact with people from different cultures on a daily basis and therefore it is useful to have knowledge of the theories which develop our intercultural communication skills. Several of these concepts can be explained through stories relayed to me by my friend Victoria, who has experience working with Middle Eastern…

minds in a study abroad project” by John et al(2015), the authors present a research which aims to determine how the students improve themselves in the foreign environment and how they construct their global minds. Meanwhile in the article “Intercultural Communication as Revealed in Language Learning Histories” by Doman(2014), the author reveals the important factors which either hinder or enhance students’ English learning abilities. Throughout this paper, I will synthesize the two articles by…

intrapersonal communication that had unknowingly been established. I could tell when my aunts or uncles were upset, without them saying a word because I understood their mannerisms. I often was called a “Yankee” or “fresh water yank” which meant I was an American, not born or raised on this beautiful island. It created a sense of belonging, but no matter how many summers I stayed or number of years I went to school, I still was not one of them. I grew to understand this intercultural…

Encounters Life is constant change, and change, it has never been easy for humans. Nevertheless, diversity is at the core of our modern world; In fact, we are all deeply connected not only at a biological level, but due to the globalization of communications, we are together in our challenges too; therefore, developing new interconnected ways of working and communicating with each other, is without a doubt, the best approach for solving new challenges, reaching our goals and, becoming a more…

The topic of intercultural competence have become very important in the past years of the globalization era where people of diverse cultures meet, study and work together. Conversation between culturally different speakers are more likely go wrong than between the speakers of the same culture. People need to obtain the intercultural competence in order to communicate smoothly with people from different cultural background and go beyond the conceptual meaning of the utterance. Misunderstandings…

Intercultural Communication People are created differently. They are different in looks, height, width, colors, and even in their lifestyle. As people all know, it is hard to find two people who look alike. Some of human created in dark color and another in light. As a matter of fact, even brothers do not look alike although they are share the same parents. However, just like human form, cultures are completely different from one to another as well. Actually, engaging in a new society, which…