Cross-cultural communication, as in many scholarly fields a combination of many other fields. These fields include anthropology cultural studies psychology and communication. The field has also moved both toward the treatment of interethnic relations, and toward the study of communication strategies used by co-cultural populations ie communication strategies used to deal with majority or mainstream populations.
The study of languages other than one's own can not only serve to help us understand what we as human beings have in common but also assist us in understanding the diversity which underlies not only our languages, but also our ways of constructing and organizing knowledge, and the many different realities in which we all live and interact Such understanding has profound implications with respect to developing a critical awareness of social relationships Understanding social relationships and the way other cultures work is the groundwork of successful globalization business efforts.