Stumbling Blocks In Intercultural Communication Analysis

For our homework, we had to think about the relationship between the video and an article about Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication that is written by Barna. It was mainly talking about the problem of people who has misunderstanding on other country’s habits . After reading and watching my homework, I thought the first block and the third block is related to the white flower video and the fifth block is related to the baseball video and the Chinese fish video. I thought every video has a big problem because of the sixth block. In this article, I would like to talk about the relationship between the three videos and the article talking about Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication. First, from the video about the baseball guy, I thought the first block , the third block and the fourth block is related to this video. He was staring at the whole family and see how they eat. Then he starts to copy the family and does alot of actions that is not polite to Japanese people. All of the family made a face that his action is
The reason I thought this video is related to assumption of similarities is because a flower can mean different in other countries. They all think their definition of a white flower is correct and the culture made a rule to this flower. The misunderstanding of the flower is complicated in many ways and I think it is indirectly having relationship with assumption of similarities. In the video, there wasn’t any scene about the problem telling language could make us have hard communication. But actually, I think the reason of misunderstanding is caused by the language difference. If the traverler was able to speak the language, he might be able to look up on the Internet and search about the flower before he gives it to the women. So, I think the problem in this video is indirectly caused by language