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    I believe an important topic in today’s society is intercultural communication. This type of communication focuses on the ability to speak with and work alongside with people of different cultural, ethnicity, opinions, etc. One of the barriers with intercultural communication is misconceptions about someone’s culture and religion. This usually leads to a lack of communication and understanding between two parties. This problem is evident during the presidential…

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    The movie Babble involves the conflicts of social groups, issues of social identity, and intergroup communication. After watching this film it is easy to connect it to lessons learned in the textbook. The film displays the difficulties of cross cultural communication and the conflicts that can come with it. Babble’s plot starts with an incident in Morocco, when a tourist gets shot (Susan Jones played by Cate Blanchette) is shot while on a tour bus. This incident results in the connection of the…

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    to share what we value, what we think that is important and to teach the way as how people from a specific society must behave. As long as we advance, the way of communicate ideas developed more and more. From cave painting, to oral, to write communication, to internet we can appreciate how the advance of technologies is extremely connected with the sharing of cultural…

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    show each other love and respect, acceptance will follow. Intercultural communication is very important to your culture and the way you were raised. In my household my mother were big on respect and one of her rules were not to allow children to be in the same room when grown-ups would come over. She would teach us to always respect a person no matter what race they were. Sometimes being from different cultures can affect communication. Some cultures are friendly and cooperative toward…

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    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…

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    our relationships. Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction describes conflict as “involving a perceived or real incompatibility of goals, values, expectation processes, or outcomes between two or more independent individuals and groups.” In addition, there are numerous forms of conflict and can be processed differently. Conflict is caused by various occurrences such as language issues, which “…can also be the primary vehicle for solving intercultural conflict” (Martin,…

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    ethnically diverse. While this change can be beneficial for a society, it can also present a wide variety of challenges that can impede communication and understanding. For nurses, it is especially important that they have cultural competence. Cultural competence is best described as “the integration ok knowledge, attitudes, and skills that enhance cross-cultural communication and appropriate interactions with others” (Black, 346). If there is a failure to have cultural competency then that…

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    From the moment I was accepted into this program, I have been in shock. As soon as the plan put down its wheels and I landed in London It hit me we were in London, but not as hard as I thought it would. London at first impression was they drive fast and it was scary when crossing a road because I still do this day do not know which way to look so I look both ways. The ambulance sirens and are ten times louder than any United States one. London was not what I expected, but better. The dogs all…

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    In the film My Cousin Vinny, intercultural communication is exemplified throughout. The film presents characters from New York who find themselves in the southern state of Alabama, where they display differences within their cultural values, norms, and communication patterns including certain verbal and nonverbal codes. Therefore, these intercultural communication components come to reveal the way the two different cultures represented in the film by the different characters view themselves and…

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    In this intercultural communication model, Stewart, Danielian and Foster (1969) developed a new way to improve communication by introducing cultural self-awareness as a key. To do a better analysis, they believe that culture might be studied by using four factors which are: concrete behavior, values, assumptions and generalized cultural forms, however, they focus on the last three factors. By values, the authors say that they can be concrete, discrete, specific and they can be comparable to…

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