Intercultural communication is the circumstance in which people from diverse cultural backgrounds are engaged in communication.
Through intercultural communication, we can learn a lot about other people and their cultures, and ourselves and our own cultural background.
The important element in the form of communication is culture and the impact on communicative behavior.
The study of intercultural communication recognizes how culture pervade what we are, how we act, how we think, and how we talk and listen. How not are we socialized into a cultural context, but how culture influences our interaction along with many other areas such as work, gender expectations, and health。
Culture helps determine your beliefs, values, and world views; your use of language; your nonverbal behavior; and how you relate to others.
Culture with your family and friends, shapes your relationships teaches you how to raise your children, and provides you with prescriptions for forms of communication appropriate to a variety of social situations.
Intercultural communication is important as it examines how people from different cultures, beliefs and religions come together to work and communicate with each other.
Without the help of intercultural communication people can unknowingly cause confusion and misunderstandings.
International and Domestic contacts International contacts are those between people form different countries and cultures.
Domestic contacts are those among people who share similar beliefs, values, trait, etc. within a culture. There are cocultures and specialized cultures.
Understanding the characteristics of diverse cultures and co-cultures as well as your own culture is the first step toward meeting the challenge of successful intercultural communication.
The deep structure of a culture primarily determines how a person responds to events and or other people.
What members of a particular culture value and how they perceive the universe are usually far more important than whether they eat with chopsticks, their hands, or metal utensils.
You study other cultures from the perspective of your own culture, so your observations and conclusions are tainted by your personal and culture orientations.
Your ethnocentrism not only impedes IC, but also is often difficult to identify because it is unconscious.
Be aware of your ethnocentrism.
Domestic contacts are increasing because new immigrants and co-cultures are growing in numbers.
Settings that are affected by these cultural changes are the educational system, the workplace, and interpersonal relationships.
The hazards of studying IC are overgeneralizing and forgetting how complex the nature of human behavior is.
We are more than our culture. We are independent, thinking individuals with the ability to analyze and modify our behavior so that we can adapt to intercultural encounters.