Essays on Culture and Communication

Communication is essential to human life. It is the process by which we use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange information (O’Hair, Wiemann, Mullin, & Teven, 2015, p. 4). Communication can be influenced by a variety of factors, but a major one is culture. Culture...

The Evolution of a Word The ability to communicate seems to come naturally to humans; it is a trait that is fairly unique to mankind. Parents teach their children to speak, and children learn without realizing how extraordinary the art of language really is. However,...

Being born into a Latin American based culture, where both my parents were born and raised in Cuba, yet I was raised American, has always been quite a challenge balancing the two and not losing sight of one or the other. My family has done...

In the sense of the total Social Functioning, how family, grouped, organizations and community. Considering the following: Culture, Politics, Economic, Spiritual, Technology. Today our country is still in the process of addressing the social issues of our country. One of these is the Social Functioning...

High context cultures communicate indirectly through contextual elements. The Taiwanese emphasize values such as saving face, which means to uphold the dignity or maintain the balance of a group. Speaking bluntly or mentioning opposing views can embarrass and affect how people perceive that individual, which...

Culture is and forever will be a complicated idea, outlining the way in which different peoples communicate and interact with one another. It doesn’t just cover where people are born or the language they speak, but also their values, behavior, beliefs, and symbols that shape...

The article “Case Study of Cross Cultural Communication Issues for Filipino Call Centre Staff and Their Australian Customers” was written by Alison Owens (2008), an Australian Senior Research Associate. Its main purpose is to observe current challenges of cross cultural business communication over the telephone,...

It is extremely difficult to believe that a neutral question exists. Neutral is synonymous with objective, and being neutral means asking questions without being influenced by personal opinion or emotion. Just asking a question involves bias, which is favor for certain ideas over others, because...

Each individual has their own culture as s part of that persons’ identity according to where they were born. As a result of Asians who study or work in different countries, have some obstacles to overcome in those cultures. Such obstacles are, cannot show their...

“Dances with wolves” is an American epic film full with western culture directed as well as produced by Kevin Costner. The film was adopted back in 1988 by Michael Blake and addresses the story of Union army who was travelling to the United States with...

Throughout and consistently administered policies are essential to company’s success to keep your department and organization efficiently and provide guidance for staying in compliance with federal state and domestic laws and as Laws get changed, it would change organization’s policy too. Changes in the policies...

Growing up as a kid in foster care, I was surrounded by many other cultures and races other than my own, of which each brought their own traditions and cultural rituals to my life. One cultural rite I have partaken in for many years and...

Although historians know very little, for certain, about much of Africa’s early history, there is however unanimity among scholars, that ‘tribes’ may have been around since time immemorial. Today, there are reportedly about 3,000 tribes in Africa, who are believed to be speaking more than...

Today, The Day of the Dead in Aztlan, has become one of the most widely celebrated Mexican cultural traditions in the Southwest, United States. It strengthens the cultural cohesiveness of the Chicano community and is an unparallel example of how Chicano movement politics and Neo-Indigenous...

Impact of intercultural communication can be divided into three levels of analysis, individual system, episodic system and relation system. The individual system possess those qualities as an individual that are competent in normative social sense such as communicator confidence increases, efficacy beliefs increases, approach dispositions...

Since America and Asia are far apart, there are a lot of differences between American and Asian culture. Everybody knows it, but it brings to mind a question, “Why are they different even though we are human-beings who are all same?” I found out why...

The general traits of cultures Kyrgyzstan Being blunt (very forthright) Narrow mind Responsive Employable (physical labour) Hospitable Inhumane behaviour (actually passive-aggressive) India Energized Friendly Very peaceful Gossip Lack of personal space Prideful (Classes, castes) China Industrious Elaborate Fundamental (in principle) Responsibly to work/job Respecting Government...

In the first essay, “We’re not…” by Andrea Roman discussed the cultural conflicts when she lives in America with her Bolivian family, especially her strict Bolivian mother. However, in the second essay, “The Undercurrent” by Kelly Young emphasizes about her mother’s overly protective desire to...

Introduction In this essay I will argue that symbols cannot be studied in and of themselves, but their meaning is directly tied with their associated culture’s way of living, beliefs systems and values. I will go on to explain that even certain symbols might evoke...