Essays on Intercultural

Multiculturalism in the workplace is an interesting topic because the modern business environment and globalization make multiculturalism and diversity widespread in organizations. The key idea is that multiculturalism is the result of globalization, and managers of companies should properly address this issue. The first thing is to consider multiculturalism and diversity in multinational corporations. I am going to use an article written by DeLancey (2013), which studies employees in Singapore. Next, I will reveal how to make properly manage multiculturalism and make such diversity more open to changes. It is essential to prove that all employees need a safe ...

Identity and Community

Identity and community Introduction Many people like being researchers, but they are depressed by the inaccessibility of the outcomes of their research, which could add value, inspire, or provoke thoughts of people who receive information. This implies that the creativity of an individual is rendered futile as a result of lack of OA (open access). The networked and digital technology has led to the reconfiguration of publicness by altering the engagement in public life. According to Baym and Boyd (2012), the affordance of digital media and architecture is what shapes publicness. The existence of digital technology has blurred the ...

The new media era widens the horizons of the communication. Let one remember how complicated it was to communicate in the 1950s since the era of the telephone lines was just developing. However, the era of the media appeared with the occurrence of the television. On the one hand, the television made the barriers in the face-to-face communication since people were interested in spending more time watching TV. On the other hand, the television set was a luxury in the 1950s. Therefore, people, who owned the TV, invited their neighbors so that they could watch it together and communicate ...

Workplace: Case of BMW

BMW BMW is considered as one of the most sustainable companies in the world. It is due to the fact that the company outperformed its peers in the automobile industry through corporate social responsibility activities and organizational endeavors. The company fulfilled its responsibilities in an effective manner like investments in the innovation, low level of turnover among employees and low ration among salary of CEO to the average employee (Luxury Daily, 2016). In other words, the company invests in sustainable efforts to achieve success (Dyllick & Hockerts, 2002). Hence, it is one of the ideal companies to work on the ...

The model of assimilation refers to a group of people integrating into a new culture assimilating its host's cultural elements such as language and customs, losing some or almost all of its original cultural elements. An example of this model is the case of Argentina which has open immigration policies and received a growing number of Chinese. These integrated in such a way that they have assimilated their hosting language, Spanish and the way of Argentinian living, doing business, and social life. The first generation of immigrants continues speaking their language. However, they left behind many of their cultural ...

In this paper, the various aspects of intercultural communication will be analyzed and the mapping that is involved. There will be the discussion of two questions with one looking at the studies of intercultural communication and the other one dealing with the studies that involve cultural and cross cultural communication.

What are the various things that are involved in the studies of intercultural communication?

There are various themes that are covered in this part which are interrelated and often overlap when there is the presence of intercultural communication between people of diverse backgrounds in terms of culture and subculture. These themes are intrapersonal processes that are involved in intercultural communication; communication competence; the ...

Globalization and changing environment lead to improvement of cultural interactions between people and, thus, require new approaches to education. The diversity in schools and universities and different cultural and family background of students result in the new role of a teacher as a "guide" who is able to perceive each of his students as an individual with a personal set of skills and is able to find to each of them personal educational approach. It is especially challenging for early education when children just learn to interact with each other and to be tolerant. The terms "diversity" and "cultural ...

International Business Failure

An indication by Kokemulle (2016), shows making worldwide business progress is penurious upon countless variables, for example, lack of positioning, poor correspondence, deficiency in versatility or even poor understanding of business sector. In any case, a couple of regular subjects develop with organizations that endeavor to work past household fringes and fall flat. For organizations to succeed in a worldwide commercial center, they require certain organization qualities that adjust to the individual to the host country and without the adjustments, the expatriate will be noted to fail in their mission in the given host country. There are certain factors ...

IKEA Analysis

IKEA’s vision is to create a better everyday life for many people. Providing quality and affordable furniture to all social status of people is the main goal of IKEA.

Linkage of vision/mission and goals to company/organization’s global supply chain operations

a) The linkage between IKEA’s vision and mission to its global operation chains can be rated as very high. IKEA has managed to improve the quality of its products maintaining the price at a constant, thereby, ensuring that many people are able to afford the product, thus, creating a better everyday life for many people. b) IKEA has a compliance function team of five managers whose primary responsibilities ...

A summary of my current level of responsibility and decision-making ability in the company

A typical business organization normally has various functions and departments. Each department is assigned a unique role that in conjunction with other departments, it contributes to the overall achievement of the entire organizational goals. Additionally, every employee in the organization is assigned a specific role and the target to achieve over a specified period, which at the end of a particular time is evaluated together with what others have done to measure the progress of the entire organization. Having attained a degree in a business field with specialization in Accounting /Finance, I make major contributions towards critical decision making ...

The book by Michael Byram “From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship: Essays and Reflections” is devoted to learning foreign languages in terms of culture at primary school. Language learning without cultural dimension is believed to cause danger, since children would use it to encode their own world, with no experience of “otherness”. Teaching is determined by social, political, and economic position of the society. According to the author, internationalization and globalization leave an impact on the educational sphere, and language teaching methodology requires revision, with consideration of intercultural competence. On the other hand, language learning is ...

Abstract

Diversified care is a huge issue in the healthcare administration. One of the reasons for this is funding, another is that patients are becoming more aware of the medical advances that exist and are more demanding in regards to the treatment that they obtain. This has a huge impact on a hospital’s finances and strongly affects how they operate. Nonetheless, there are many ways that the issue can be addressed and avoided by both looking at the needs of the community and enabling the institution to change and implement the technological advances as they come about. One way ...

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Dear Ms. Jones: I believe that Halloween should be a holiday which promotes diversity and does not offend members of the minorities. Therefore, cultural appropriation is not acceptable because it diminishes the values of a certain group of people. The misrepresentation fosters stereotypes that are related to one particular culture and people are entitled to have diversity within that culture at the same time. It is best not to dress up as a member of a different cultural group than one’s own because it ...

Abstract

Notably, interracial couples and their families have faced various challenges including rejection and being stereotyped. These challenges have resulted in increased trauma and developmental delays among interracial people. The most common misperception about interracial couples is that one partner is black while the other one is white. The rate at which interracial marriages are growing in the US has increased steadily. Considering that the United States legalized interracial marriages, a high growth rate in interracial marriage is a significant move. The demand for interracial counseling is expected to rise as the number of multicultural couples increase. Education of counselors ...

Responses to Section 1

Intercultural communication is crucial for global business. Ideally, the proliferation og globalization had led to the emergence of diverse ethnic and cultural workforces. Verbal and nonverbal communication plays an integral role because language influences perception and communication styles. Cultural differences influence international communication, especially the way countries perceive culture as of high or low context; therefore, the recognition of these differences spurs business competitiveness. Verbal and nonverbal communication has profound effects on cultural identity. Conversational styles and nonverbal cues such as gestures, space, time and gazes are very significant in people’s lives and they help in keeping the ...

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Assignment 1

WR Assignment Guiding Question: How does the communication styles effect relationships Integrated Summary: Communication or conversational style is the way in which people interact and communicate with others through verbal and non-verbal mediums. It is the purposeful way of sharing information in which the receiver may not exactly understand what the communicator has to say. It may be due to cultural or language differences (Gareis, Merkin & Goldman, 2011). Hence, stress, noise, misunderstandings and conflicts need to be removed from communication process and channel to improve the bond of friendship or acquaintance or relationship between the people. Communication style ...

The Business of International Business is Culture

-Geert Hofstede

Views on the International Business Perspectives

International communication has been the research topic of various scholars and disciplines for several decades. The phenomena of globalization brought upon internationalization and growth of businesses, thus resulting into practicality and necessity of it. Due to the increase in business opportunities’ number beyond the borders of their own country, numerous organizations choose to extend their activities abroad frequently without understanding that the prospective financial growth can result into disastrous conditions because of the inappropriate communication with the individuals from the other countries. One of the typical misconceptions among the executives of the enterprises is that business communication ...

Introduction

Over the last few decades, the Canadian education system has been characterized by ethnic and racial discrimination. Despite having the Ontario Human Rights Code that advocates for equal rights for all and freedom from discrimination, cases of ethnic prejudice have been manifested significantly, especially for the Blacks and Aboriginal population who have over time been denied access to quality education (Daenzer & Dei, 1994). These minority groups experience low-quality education, which leads to low academic attainment. Aspects of ethnic discrimination have deterred the minority groups and denied them a chance to pursue ambitions for social mobility and high levels of ...

Question 1

I would recommend to my friend to not start coaching from the beginning. Coaching helps people achieve a goal in the workplace by finding and implementing their own solutions. When the coach works with the coached, the intercultural perspective while communicating has to be considered. This involves not only the environment and background of the coached but also the industry and corporate culture. The way a managing team is addresses in the UK may be different from the way it is done in the U.S. or when compared to the fashion industry and international bank. For a foreign national, ...

The encompassing theme of the book is the practice of teaching foreign languages at schools or to a community. Byram first defines the basic purposes of teaching a foreign language, and then uses research conducted across various countries in order to provide data to back up his theories. He theorizes that due to the globalized world, it has become more vital for people to know different languages, and his basic message is that foreign language teachers are vitally important for the advancement of society. He pulls most of his research on Europe, which has encouraged vast intercultural knowledge due ...

Abstract

Ethnography relates to a culture and shares the story into larger cultural patterns of culture, class, ecology, and region. The purpose of the essay are to examine an aspect of Filipino culture through interviews and understand the culture. Filipino youth often abandons their culture even as the immigrant families try to teach their children their culture and heritage language. They fear that children will get have a foreign accent and will not be able to people preserves their culture and heritage. The mental health of Filipino Americans immigrants is influenced by how they adjust to their new adopted country ...

English

Intercultural Communication Culture refers to a particular society present at a particular place at a specific time. Culture can never be wrong, it is only different. With increasing globalization, people from around the world are constantly finding a continuous need to learn and utilize effective skills in communication. Moreover, diversity in workplaces, institutions, and other public places has led to an influx in the number of cross-cultural interactions between people from diverse backgrounds. However, without a clear understanding of cultural aspects of other people, communication can become a challenge. Learning about a new culture and the application of communication ...

Multiculturalism in the classroom is beneficial for the students and for the general atmosphere at university. Students and instructors need to be from different nationalities because that is what enriches the experience of everybody and raises the influence of the university. People feel best when they are surrounded by people of various cultural, racial and ethnical backgrounds which is why multicultural classroom is what matters most when it comes to the benefits young people can have from their learning experience. The advantages of multicultural classroom are numerous because students have the opportunity to get familiar with other cultures and ...

In a globalized world, it seems as though culture shock is inevitable. Essentially, people “encounter culture shock whenever they uproot themselves from a familiar setting and move to an unfamiliar one,” (Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2011, p. 93). With millions of people traveling as tourists, finding work in other countries, and students studying outside of their homeland, culture shock is an experience that will ultimately affect so many. For some scholars, what it really boils down to is how a person handles their culture shock, and how their reaction to culture shock will affect their ability to adapt to a new ...

The neighborhood of Brooklyn is where both my family and I reside. Brooklyn also happens to be the home to most immigrants from Africa, Asia, Middle-East, the Americas, the Caribbean, and all contributing their rich talents and cultures to the borough. And this kind of diversity is manifested in the linguistic compositions by these multi-ethnic neighborhoods within Brooklyn. Emigrants from English-speaking nations find it easy to linguistic integrate with the locals as they already have the advantage of knowing the English language. The socio-economic levels within Brooklyn appear to be lower than the surrounding neighborhoods of the greater New ...

Introduction

There can be no denial of the fact that in the age of technological boom and globalization, the domain of media and the Internet have come to majorly influence the domain of communication. Indeed, a sea of change has come about in the mode of communication as it is mostly dependent on technology in the present era of ICTs. (Rothkegel & Ruda 2012) But, apart from the predominance of technology mediated communication among people of the world and dissemination of information all over, the world of media and the Internet has come to revolutionize the domain of inter-cultural communication in ...

ESSAY PLAN & ESSAY

Part A. ESSAY PLAN Thesis Statement: No two people can see the world in exactly the same way because of differences in their status, gender, culture, traditions and environment where they were raised as shown through non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication can create barriers between people and may elicit different interpretations and responses based on the people’s personal beliefs, status and expectations.

People have different outlooks in life where some have positive views in life, where some of them have pessimistic outlooks. Supporting point 2 Some people tend to stereotype based on race, color, religion and social standing. Non-verbal ...

Organization Behaviour

1 Task 2 - Analyse the scenario Motivation is the force that drives people into action and encourages them to exert more effort towards carrying out something. Employees who are well motivated are more comfortable and will have feelings of happiness and fulfilment. Johansson and Heide (2008) points out that besides, being well motivated workers tend to produce high-quality results and are more productive than their counterparts. In the case study, the workforce is less. They are overwhelmed in the course of their duty. They are not able to work overtime because their terms of service are contractual. The ...

Intercultural awareness involves the idea that an individual has when encountered with cultural differences. Bennett outlines six stages that can be used in assessing a person’s position on cultural difference matters. They include, denial where individuals are assumed to be oblivious of the existence of cultural differences due to social isolation or sub- human status. Secondly, defence, individuals are more sensitive to cultural difference and view the differences as threatening. The stage is characterized by denigration of differences and insecurity. Thirdly, minimization, cultural differences are known and tolerated to a certain level. They are viewed as superficial and ...

Problem Statement

Understanding the impact of culture on student learning is very critical to the provision of good quality education to learners. The global population is made of people with different cultures. In learning institutions, it is common to find a class made up of students and instructors from different communities with different cultural perspectives. Culture defines people’s way of life and comprises beliefs, knowledge, symbols, values, and behaviors. In a learning environment, there is a student’s culture, instructor’s culture, and the culture of people in the surrounding environment. Culture in such a case can be homogenous (where ...

In a globalized world, it seems as though culture shock is inevitable. Essentially, people “encounter culture shock whenever they uproot themselves from a familiar setting an move to an unfamiliar one,” (Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2011, p. 93). With millions of people traveling as tourists, finding work in other countries, and students studying outside of their homeland, culture shock is an experience that will ultimately affect so many. For some scholars, what it really boils down to is how a person handles their culture shock, and how their reaction to culture shock will affect their ability to adapt to a new ...

The most crucial part of correcting non-speakers is by starting with the understanding that they are learning, and it is a process that has to take time for them to become conversant with the language. It is significant for them to take it step by step. Learning few words at a time, then moving on to phrases. Keep the sentences as brief as possible to avoid getting lost on what to say next. Learning, in this case, is not just about speech but also an adjustment to a new culture. The teacher does not just start teaching. They need ...

Prenatal care is a type of care provided to pregnant women and it aims at assisting women to have a healthy pregnancy that is necessary for both the mother and the unborn child. As a health professional in an organization providing such services, I would be involved in doing check-up on pregnant women so as to prevent potential health risks and also treat some. I would be advising on the right diet, avoiding exposure to certain harmful material like radioactive substance that may cause complications in pregnancy, controlling some conditions that the patient would be having, for example diabetes ...

3727 Assignment 8 3727 Assignment 8 Different countries have different cultures based on the countries in which they operate. Demographic factors play a role in determining and organizing an organization so does the national cultures of the countries of these companies. All countries globally have different cultures that are different from other nations. Companies from different nationalities have distinct beliefs, values, and priorities. This paper discusses four different companies the Newfoundland Capital Organization, the Centre for Cross-Cultural Learning, Kwintessential, and Geert Hofstede organizations showing how different companies operate in the country in which they conduct their operations.

The Newfoundland ...

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The increase in diversity among working environments have introduced some challenges in the way of solace and consolation amongst employees, clients, and suppliers from different cultures, societies, and ethnic backgrounds. This type of consoling, supporting, encouraging and comfortable environment can only be developed if the business organizations can effectively deal with the numerous issues of differing attributes of the individuals. Certain factors and aspects should be considered by business organizations to accomplish an effective and prosperous working environment. Developing solace among diverse workforce has become significant for every organization in order to ensure the smooth ...

CROSS-CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

Cross-Cultural Intelligence Introduction Communication is of immense importance in the organization and the day to day activities of mankind (Karnaukhova & Polyanskaya, 2015; Teng et al. 2014). It includes verbal and non-verbal communications. In the multiethnic, multiracial and multicultural world of today, interracial (cross-cultural) communication is common and paramount. However, research has shown that there are various barriers to this form of communication. Interracial communication simply implies communication between people of different cultures. Communication barriers do not only exist in the interracial context but also interpersonal communication (communication between people of the same culture) barrier also occurs. This essay takes ...

Article 1: Knowledge and Culture in Tourism Organization Management by Ēriks Lingebērziņš

There is considerable information loss between incoming tour operators and their customers who come from emerging, non-Western markets, yet the extent of this loss resists measurement. It is important to integrate cultural competencies into the management processes and practices of international tourism organizations in order to minimize information loss and contribute to the experience of a diverse range of customers. Cultural competency means more than just hiring staff from various countries or who speak more than one language; it includes values, beliefs, and attitudes. International tourism organizations must constantly be in a learning mode in order to understand the ...

What Implications Does Identity Have for Intercultural Communication?

Social realities can manifest into cultural identities of any group of people. An individual’s nature of social interaction depend on the dimensions of his cultural identity. It can encompass both race and ethnicity, although these two terms require careful consideration due to the difficulty in tracing their sharp delimitations. Various sources of ascriptive, cultural, territorial, political, economic and social nature can contribute to the formation of identities (Hortobágyi, 2009, pp. 258-259). According to the sociologist George Herbert Mead, identity has two components – the social component and the personal component. The social identity encompasses derivatives from various social ...

The Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism

Executive Summary This essay explores the cross-cultural behavior in the context of tourism, including the issue of social contact and its measures, cultural shock, cultural values and the cultural model of the conceptual relationships. The subject of our research was the book Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism by Yvette Reisinger and Lindsay W. Turner. The essay seeks to identify how different factors influence social contact and actors in the tourism context. This information will be used to deepen the knowledge about the interrelations in tourism and to identify factors which can make enchase the process of intercultural communication.

Part one: the social contact in tourist encounters.

The intercultural ...

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION

There are many facets to the internationalization of education. Exposing children and young adults to more aspects of the world earlier can only be considered a positive impact of globalization; however, there are a number of issues that must be addressed insofar as the internationalization of education is concerned. There are both benefits and downsides to international education, and this discussion will examine both the benefits and downsides; the discussion will also examine the impact of international education on both the host country and the home country of the students involved in the process. There are also different ways that international ...

In this day and age of globalization, there is an upsurge in interest in intercultural communication as there is increased cultural interaction amongst individuals and groups. Technology has helped bring the whole world together, thus enabling constant interactions either via conferences, international calls, and internet connectivity among other platforms. It is with this understanding that the email is gaining a lot of mileage as an effective means of intercultural communication across the globe. The email is one of the most commonly used forms of communication today, both in the formal and informal set ups. So mush is the email used ...

SuperCharge holds itself to the highest standards as it introduces its new product into the marketplace in Beijing, China. These standards are based in the core values of SuperCharge, which are as follows: exemplary customer service; satisfaction guarantee; and environmental awareness. These core values permeate through every part of the business, but they become especially important in regards to intercultural conflict.

These three core values are all non-negotiable. Although the situations may vary from place to place as the product is launched, the values will not change. In Beijing, China, a place filled with an abundance of potential customers, ...

Introduction

Recruitment and selection is a difficult process, as it involves various elements to judge the right candidate for the organization. However, today, there are several ways of judging the candidate for a given organization. There are written tests, group discussions, providing tasks, making them solve problems in groups, and finally, conducting personal interviews. The Human Resource Management tries to evaluate the competencies and skills of an individual from several perspectives (Strasak et al., 2007). We would like to judge the candidates on the basis of their behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, and skill-set demonstrated in the group discussions and personal interviews.

During the ...

Business culture and etiquette play a big role in determining the business climate of a country. How foreigners such as expats are treated by the hosts will affect their efficiency and willingness to extend their services in a country. This is a paper on the business and cultural etiquettes in Chile and Saudi Arabia.

Business interactions with the Chilean locals will be determined and influenced by their conversation skills. Chileans by nature are poor listeners with very short spans of concentration. It will be challenging to hold an intellectual conversation with someone ...

Introduction

Culture can be one of the most challenging obstacles in business organization. This is because culture is diverse, and it is beyond the realm of ethical boundaries. By saying culture is beyond ethical boundaries, it means that the culture cannot be argued ethically incorrect because culture is distinct to a given group of people since it is rooted upon traditions. This is being the case, one’s practice, behaviors and principles could be in accordance to one’s cultural beliefs or heritage and no one can argue that is wrong because it has been what defines a community for ...

Management in Nigeria

In today's aggressive business environment, the current economic recession has left numerous organizations shut and some bankrupt, the associations that survived the subsidence are currently attempting to draw their foot over to the norm. These associations have a tendency to build or stretch their business, and the main way this could be effective is for them to move from the exceedingly focused and soaked Western markets and investigate new market and good fortunes. Nigeria's business environment is formal and culturally diverse administration will be more efficient on the off chance that you embrace a formal aura and show regard to the ...

Introduction

This paper seeks to present a detailed outline on the topic Intercultural Communication in Contexts. The main objectives of the paper include the following: discuss the components of language; explain the different position concerning language and perception; describe the function of metaphor in gaining awareness about intercultural communication; recognize cultural variations in the different style of communication; understand the different challenges related to multilingualism; explain the distinction between interpretation and translation; and understand the occurrence of interlanguage and code switching.

Point 1: Social science perspective is focused on the use of language including the components, perception and ...

As a result of globalization, the multi-culture and cultural relation has resulted to increasing demand of learning various cultures. In addition, there are many global issues, such as pollution and climate change that requires coordination and collaboration of the different culture to mitigate. Therefore, the modern societies must learn to coordinate so that they can prevent the problem of mutual self-destruction. For instance, the United States is facing the problem of cultural distortion as a result of immigration into the country. The appropriate way to mitigate such problems is through the intercultural understanding. People should acquire intercultural communication as a tool to ...

The chapter on Intercultural Communicative Competence is an analytic one in the sense that, it explores the concept and dissects its aspects in great details. However there are certain parts the relevance of which seems doubtful or overrated to me.

I completely agree with the exploration of the meaning and implications of the metaphors used to define the multicultural bulk and environment of America. It lays the very foundation of the angles and degrees of depth from which the following content needs to be approached and scrutinized. Both agreeing and disagreeing with the author, I find both The ...

Intercultural business communication is difficult even at the best of times, but when there are distinct differences in cultural realities, communication can be made even more difficult. Intercultural business communication and the difficulties associated with it can obviously also be made more complex by past conflicts between that nation and other nations. Vietnam, for instance, was embroiled in a bloody conflict with the United States for a number of years, and that conflict still influences Vietnamese-American relations today. Canada’s history with Vietnam is less problematic, but there are still issues that take place within cultural exchanges that cause problems for ...

Organization Culture

Sarros,Copper & Santora(2008) finds that most organizations concentrate in bringing the latest technological infrastructure to transform the procedures of work. In doing so, organizations tend to ignore the workers and organization culture which is the engine that has the most impact. An organization culture depends with the founders of the institution their beliefs and core practices. It is vital for an organization to engage the employees who design products to enable the organization become successful. Leaders’ decision-making criteria affect the behavior of workers. In this view Sarros,et al (2008) suggest that to ensure a high performance culture ...

Organization Culture

Sarros,Copper & Santora(2008) finds that most organizations concentrate in bringing the latest technological infrastructure to transform the procedures of work. In doing so, organizations tend to ignore the workers and organization culture which is the engine that has the most impact. An organization culture depends with the founders of the institution their beliefs and core practices. It is vital for an organization to engage the employees who design products to enable the organization become successful. Leaders’ decision-making criteria affect the behavior of workers. In this view Sarros,et al (2008) suggest that to ensure a high performance culture an ...

Introduction:

The interview for Mr. Nguyen, a third-generation Vietnamese-American covers the aspects of the immigrant issues and cultural variations in America. Mr. Nguyen owns a Vietnamese-Chinese restaurant in Milpitas. Mr. Nguyen has a unique and diverse background in relation to the cultural foundations of the immigrant issues in America. He is well endowed with the cultural information pertaining to the cultural variations and diversity in America. The interviewee has a detailed background as far as the cultural conflicts and diversity is concerned in America. He knows well about the cultural values among the people of America and the ay such values affects the economic ...

This article highlights the intricacies of communicating with people from other cultures especially in a business setting. The author identifies culture and native language as the main causes of these differences in communication even in countries that use a similar language such as English. The article deals with various situations where an individual thought they were doing or saying the right thing only for it to be interpreted differently by people from other countries; the author attributes this to cultural differences.

Olfsoon points out that different cultures value different things, for example in Japan age, education and position in the company ...

According to feminist researchers, the intimate violence is widely committed by men against women. In the event of family violence, researches show that the rates of violence are evenly distributed among men and women relatively. Sexual violence is omitted by feminist researchers; they ignore the gendered relationships inequality, reasons, intents, and effects of any violence. The fact that women are on average in terms of strength, they are weak compared to men physically. For example, men punched stronger than women do and caused more injuries. However, there are instances that it is hard to identify who first initiated the ...

Diversity in the natural setting has made people move from one place to another in search for the missing link. A geographical setting cannot have everything at the same location and time. Tourists move from one place to another in order to see what they do not have in their scenery. On one occasion, as I visited the Zoo, I noticed this young man with light skin. His style of dressing was something I had not seen in America for a long time. When I approached him, he gave me his name as Kevin Okafor from Nigeria. I had to ...

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people,” said Mahatma Gandhi. It is the culture of a people that gives them a sense of belonging, identity and pride of who they are. Culture is an integral part of a people and cannot be separated from them. Being passed from one generation to another, culture is indelible in the hearts and souls of its perpetrators. The centrality of culture has a number of effects in shaping the opinion, style and character of a people. It is to this effect that various groups of people have their own way of ...

Communication

I visited an Orthodox Church service with one of my friends, who are a member in the church. I was excited to learn about different ethnicity’s activities. The Orthodox Church comprises of many segments worldwide, with each geographically distinct body exercising self-governing measures. The ethnic designation of this church refers to the parish rules and regulations that govern members of a particular geographical location (Cai, 2010). During the first twenty minutes of the service, the church seemed to be in a noisy mode with people interacting and getting ready for the leaders to begin the sermon. Some people at the altar, ...

New York City is the most densely inhabited cities in the United States of America. New York City is located at the northeastern part of the United States approximately halfway between Boston and Washington DC. The city consists of five boroughs, which are Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. New York City experiences a humid subtropical climate, with January as the coldest month. The demographics of New York City show that it is one diverse metropolitan area whose population is defined by a history of immigration. According to data from the Census Bureau, the New York City had a population ...

This can be simply put as communication between different cultures. It is used to describe the wide range of communication barriers that exist after interaction of people with different cultures. As the word is growing into a global village, interactions between people of diverse culture are increasing as the world becomes smaller. People are travelling from their birth places to seek to start life in different places hence the result of intercultural communication. In USA for example, people from the US can be found in different parts of the world as they are seeking new environments as well people from ...