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Cross-cultural communication Cross-cultural communication entails communication that occurs between individuals from different cultures. Cross-cultural communication affects an organization if it is made up of a diverse workforce, or plans on conducting global business in the near future. Cross-cultural communication involves an understanding of how people from different cultures speak, communicate, and perceive the world around them. From a business perspective, cross-cultural communication…

Prejudice and discrimination are similar in some ways and different in others. Prejudice is when a conclusion is drawn about something or someone in a negative way before all evidence has been examined. Discrimination is a difference in treatment towards members of the group and out of the group.There are many factors that contribute to prejudice and discrimination. There are also many ways you can reduce the development of prejudices and discriminatory behaviors. Prejudices usually begin…

Communication Issues In these two chapters of the reading titled ‘Verbal Issues and Communication’ and ‘Nonverbal Communication Issues’ I was able to learn about and evaluate the different components of language, the various styles of communication among cultures, new media’s influence on communication, comparing verbal and nonverbal communication, as well as the assorted cultural variations in nonverbal behaviour. All of the five elements combined to create a pattern throughout the world’s…

Ministers Advisory Council, 2011). As seen in the case study Mrs Akajen is 76 years old and she is multilingual with English being her second language. Many older Indigenous Australians are knowledge-keepers and continuers of Indigenous history and culture, such as language (Benevolent Society, 2013). Due to Mrs Akajen’s age and English being her second language, when caring for her I might have difficulties communicating with her as she is probably used to speaking in her own language…

2002). According to Baumrind, parenting styles could be classified into four types: Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive and disengaged. Authoritarian parenting is defined with high demand and low responsiveness. Consequence…

orientation different from mine, people rich in things of the world, people who are poor in things of the world, people with high intelligence, people with low intelligence, people who are wise, people who are foolish, people who are peace loving and people who are fearful. There are two distinct features that unite and divide us: humanity and culture. There is no denying either. When we are threatened as a group, we typically unify. If our country was attacked by another country or by…

stress levels, shrinks the time of acclimation to a new environment, and produces higher performing employees. “It was hypothesized that managers who receive rigorous cross-cultural training before and during the assignment will not suffer intense culture shock and will become effective more rapidly than managers who have not had cross-cultural training.” (Eschbach, Parker, and Stoeberl 270). Due to the high cost associated with sending employees to assignments overseas, it is crucial that…

certain cultural tone in their classrooms and with their students. Teachers are encouraged to change their thinking by establishing a positive sense of culture and community in the classroom by using peer interaction to teach social skills. A daily morning meeting, where the classroom is demonstrating social skills, would be an example of creating culture amongst students in the classroom. Teachers need to set clear rules for expectations and procedures for all things in the classroom and allow…

After listening to all civilisations, I noticed the similarities between cultures, arts, architecture, symbolism, myth and religion each holds. It obviously beneficial to me, as someone who wonders of study that covers all world cultures and appeals on many disciplines such as sociology and philosophy. The first part of this essay discusses on areas that interest me and in the second portion, how these myths are relevant. Lastly, other information I would like to know. This essay…

of that, people from different culture might have different point of view when speaking of politeness. Throughout history, there have been studies and research on politeness, and one of the most significant and influential research on linguistic politeness would be Brown and Levinson's politeness theory. Even though Brown and Levinson's politeness theory of "face" has become a foundation of politeness study, some researcher who are from the tradition Eastern culture, have criticized Brown and…