Essays on Intercultural Communication

Communication helps us to share meaning amongst different kinds of people, in which they encode and decode messages. These messages may be verbal or non-verbal. Intercultural communication is when communication takes place between individuals from diverse cultures from all around the world. Intercultural communication can...

Negotiation is a challenging process because of the complexities that arise from different arguments, but also a crucial skill for managers, especially in a cross-cultural business context. Three main challenges of cross-cultural negotiations are: the individual’s effectiveness in communication, the process of negotiation across cultures,...

First year of college or university is challenging enough especially when you travel miles way from home to study abroad in an alien country, let alone having to deal with roommate conflicts. However, such conflicts are inevitable. That being said, conflict does not necessarily mean...

Through the development of modern technology, it has become easier for people from different countries to communicate. In a sense, the world has become a global community. Although the border between countries become more and more ambiguous, cultural differences still exist. As far as I...

Identity and intercultural communication are crucial aspects when dealing with health care. As explained in Experiencing Intercultural Communication (EIC), as the world becomes more culturally diverse, so does the necessity to effectively communicate with other cultures and identities and acclimate with some form of affirmation...

Public institutions in the United States endeavored to provide a better societal experience for citizens. From education and crime prevention to housing and labor efforts, public organizations seek to impact the lives of people in a bevy of ways. Leadership and management strategies and tactics...

I never moved schools, not even once. For the past 18 years, I have always lived in a densely packed town called Bandar Lampung – a city on the southern tip of Sumatra Island, Indonesia. I had always been surrounded by familiar faces every single...

The difference of cultures around the world have created challenges in doing business across the border. Culture is the main issue that bothers the retailer plans to expand their business beyond domestic markets. Communication is a human nature. In each culture, there are different communication...

I believe that the intention behind these two modules is to communicate that during intercultural communication there are many cultural or pragmatic variables that might arise that would hinder communication in the target language. Both Professor Thomas Garza and Professor Dale Koike argue that there...

Introduction Intercultural communication is defined as “situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins”. Case Study Building and marshmallow spaghetti tower with a group of people from different countries. We had to work together to build a standing tower using 5...

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...

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,...

The cultural connection between India and West Asia & North African region point towards some of the stark similarities between them because no other civilisation in the Asian continent have had as long and sustained historical engagement with the West Asia and North African region...

There are some business etiquette that must be followed when doing business with the Japanese people, especially related to politeness and good manners which is more formal than South Korea. For example, exchanging the business card is an essential ritual after someone being introduced and...

Waiting To Exhale When we are confronted with a radically different reality, it could be an oppressing experience. Steve Biko uses the phrase “culture contact” when referring to the exposure of one culture to another. Many people would think that culture shock only happens on...

The Honeymoon Stage is being curios and positive about new exciting experiences. People who are in this stage admire and even idealize the new culture. Hostility and Irritability Stage is starting to feel different and actually inferior. The new host culture is confusing or the...

The Lewis Model of Cross-Cultural Communication was created by Richard D. Lewis. The center of the model characterizes social standards into Linear-Active, Multi-Active and Re-Active, or some blend. In Richard Lewis’ model my way of life has a place in the direct actives. The direct...

Meaning is shared among communication partners who encode and decode messages. This process can be complex when communication partners involve struggle to attribute the same meaning. Partners from different cultures can find it very difficult to share meaning and might perceive communication between cultures as...