Ethnocentrism is the propensity to look at the world from the standpoint of one’s own culture. Many claim that ethnocentrism occurs in every culture; as luck would have it‚ ethnocentrism may be something that all cultures have in common. (unknown) Ethnocentrism is a good thing and a bad thing. It’s great to be proud of your country and your heritage. Ethnocentrism can lead to social assimilation and strong personal group ties. We see a lot of ethnocentrism in the military and in our High Schools
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The key to effective intercultural communication is adopting a position of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the belief that each culture is of equal value‚ and none should be superior than the other. Many people in the world are Ethnocentric‚ this means that they believe that they have a better culture than someone else‚ due to what they have seen or heard. Technology plays a huge role towards ethnocentric people‚ as they usually have only seen one side of the culture. Journalists nowadays
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in that world. We believe the source of how a culture views the world can be found in its deep structure. It is this deep structure that unifies and makes each culture unique. Meaning of the Deep Structure of Culture Although many intercultural communication problems occur on the interpersonal level‚ most serious confrontations and misunderstandings are as a result of cultural differences that go to the basic core of what it means to be a member of one culture or another. Cultural collisions are
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Summary of Intercultural Communication Chapter 1: Defining Culture and Identities Aboriginals are the native people of Australia. Co-culture/subculture is a group that exists within a culture. Usually based on social class‚ ethnicity or geographic region. Cultural identity are people who identify themselves with a culture. Cultural studies is an approach that attempts to develop an ideal personification of the culture. This ideal is used to explain the actions of individuals
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The barriers to intercultural communication and the solving approaches Although intercultural communication is highly thought of‚ the barriers in the intercultural communication area still exist owing to three aspects cultural identity‚ national cultural dimensions and individual intercultural competence. To analyse the reasons for these barriers and approach these issues are essential. Intercultural communication is defined as a form of communication that aims to share information across different
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COMM120 Intercultural Communication: Journal Report 1 Name: Ng Txx Hxx‚ Pxxxxx (SXXXX075I) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/02/15/f-audio-photos-immigrant-canadian-children.html Children of immigrants caught between 2 cultures Second-generation Canadians open up about bullying at school‚ cultural conflict at home By John Rieti‚ CBC News Posted: Feb 15‚ 2012 3:04 PM ET | | | | | At Winnipeg’s Churchill High School‚ Ronia Arab just looks like a typical student. But
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Nathan Logan COM/360 University of Phoenix Integrative Intercultural Communication Paper In today’s global business world society and the workplace are changing in many important ways. One of the most visible and perhaps most important ways is the increasing diversity. This offers us challenges as well as opportunities. Recently‚ the concept of intercultural communication in global business has completely witnessed a fundamental change compared to before. It was predicted that women‚ minorities
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abroad: An Intercultural communication experience Florencia Gonzalez Intercultural Communication Instructor: Prof. Cees Hamelink Spring Semester 2011 Zeppelin University Introduction We are 6‚952‚296‚627 million of people in the world and 243 countries in which the citizens have different cultures. Since centuries ago‚ when the men started to travel‚ the humanity begun to understand a little bit more about other cultures‚ now a days with the mass media and living in the communication era‚ we know
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Hofstede article ‘Hofstede’s model of national cultural differences and their consequences: A triumph of faith – a failure of analysis’: In particular‚ McSweeney questions the plausibility of national cultures being systematically causal‚ i.e. that the identification of the differences causes or leads directly to the behaviour of the nation or people from that nation. McSweeney is also concerned that Hofstede ’s work has led others to believe that influential national cultures exist and that
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Summary of Intercultural Communicaion: A Critical Introduction (2011) As to give a brief summary of Intercultural Communicaion: A Critical Introduction (2011)‚ the author of this book strongly wishes to convey the importance of intercultural communication in nowadays‚ which could be explained as globalized world‚ which has brought our lives into numerous encounters to different cultures (pp.1). He comes up with many case studies‚ which could be more easily understandable of such terms which
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