How Culture Affects Communication
How Culture Affects Communication
Understanding how culture affects Communication comprehending the verbal and nonverbal meanings of a message is difficult even when communicators are from the same culture.
When they come from different cultures, special sensitivity and skills are necessary. Every country has a unique culture or common heritage, joint experience, and shared learning that produce its culture. Their common experience gives people of that culture a complex system of shared values and customs. It teaches them how to behave; it conditions their reactions. The more you know about culture in general and your own culture in particular, the better able you will be to adopt an intercultural perspective. Context is one of the most important cultural dimensions, yet it is among the most difficult to define.
Culture, gender, personality and communication Interpersonal communication is a topic that is accepted differently by different people and depends on the contest of the communication. To manage intercultural interaction effectively, speakers need to be aware of the inherent norms of their own speech practices, the ways in which norms vary depending on situational factors and the ways in which speakers from other language backgrounds may have different expectations of language usage and behavior Communication in many cases can be misinterpreted due to different cultures, even different skin color or different nationality. There is a little hint of discrimination among the people when meet a person from different nationality and talk with accent. I personally witnessed this discrimination. The first impression is that if you do not understand something, and ask the person to repeat the question, the question will be repeated in a louder voice. The other impression that I have with culture was when someone unknowing my culture just assume that you are coming from a different world that you don’t belong to be in my cultural. I’m
Understanding how culture affects Communication comprehending the verbal and nonverbal meanings of a message is difficult even when communicators are from the same culture.
When they come from different cultures, special sensitivity and skills are necessary. Every country has a unique culture or common heritage, joint experience, and shared learning that produce its culture. Their common experience gives people of that culture a complex system of shared values and customs. It teaches them how to behave; it conditions their reactions. The more you know about culture in general and your own culture in particular, the better able you will be to adopt an intercultural perspective. Context is one of the most important cultural dimensions, yet it is among the most difficult to define.
Culture, gender, personality and communication Interpersonal communication is a topic that is accepted differently by different people and depends on the contest of the communication. To manage intercultural interaction effectively, speakers need to be aware of the inherent norms of their own speech practices, the ways in which norms vary depending on situational factors and the ways in which speakers from other language backgrounds may have different expectations of language usage and behavior Communication in many cases can be misinterpreted due to different cultures, even different skin color or different nationality. There is a little hint of discrimination among the people when meet a person from different nationality and talk with accent. I personally witnessed this discrimination. The first impression is that if you do not understand something, and ask the person to repeat the question, the question will be repeated in a louder voice. The other impression that I have with culture was when someone unknowing my culture just assume that you are coming from a different world that you don’t belong to be in my cultural. I’m