Intercultural Communication Study Notes

Intercultural Communication Study Notes

• Common Settings: Intercultural communication occurs in classrooms, workplaces, and healthcare settings.

• Globalization Example: Reliance on global food imports exemplifies the interconnectedness of economies.

• Intercultural Communication Importance: Essential for world peace, promoting ecological viability, and improving co-cultural relationships.

• Intercultural Cooperation Requirements: Essential for economic benefits, environmental resources, and transnational cooperation.

• Healthcare Advancements Impact: Advances in healthcare and sanitation have led to population growth.

• Mass Migration Drivers: Poverty, political oppression, and economic opportunities are the main drivers of mass migration.

• Immigrant Settlement Patterns: Immigrants tend to settle in urban areas.

• Aging Population Concerns: Economic and social impacts are key concerns relating to the aging population.

• Ecological Concern: Climate change and pollution are ecological concerns.

• Global Cooperation in Disaster Relief: Requires intercultural communication competence.

• Global Threats: Weapons of mass destruction are a global threat.

• IT Globalization Consequences: Segregation of cultures is a result.

• Cultural Generalization Challenges: Generalizing entire groups based on limited examples is a key challenge

• Ethnocentrism Definition: The belief that one's culture is superior to others.

• Cultural Conflict Cause: Differing perceptions of right and wrong lead to cultural conflicts

• Intercultural Conflict Resolution Myth: Communication isn't a universal cure for intercultural conflict

• Intercultural Communication Objectivity: Objectivity in intercultural communication requires being unbiased and not influenced by personal feelings

• Communication Functions: To share ideas and feelings, entertain, and create conflict.

• Personal Identity Components: Family ties, cultural beliefs, and gender attitudes are components.

• Persuasive Communication Example: Giving a speech to sell a product is an example

• Communication Definition: Human communication is a dynamic process using symbols

• Components of Communication: Source, channel, technology, and feedback

• Cultural Learning Process: Learned informally through observation and interaction.

• Culture Definition: Culture is communication and communication is culture: a set of religious practices, a social organization, and passed down through generations.

• Culture Components: relating to other people, how we think, how we behave, and how we view the world. Shared experiences; can be transmitted through formal education; or based on individual beliefs.

• Cultural Messaging Transmission: Cultural inheritance is the process of passing essential cultural messages to future generations.

• Communication Wisdom Sharing: Language, art, media , and folklore are ways to share wisdom through observations and experiences

• Cultural Conflict Resolution Needs: The necessity of compromise

• Consequences of Communication: Affects how people perceive and think about themselves and others; leads to conflict

• Cultural Misconceptions

  • Some people are born effective communicators
  • The message sent is always received the same

• Culturally Responsive Communication: Includes creating a supportive climate, focusing on the dominant culture, and avoiding generalizations.

• Intercultural Communication Competency Definition: The ability to behave appropriately and effectively within a given context according to Spitzberg.

• Intercultural Communication Challenges

  • Language barriers
  • Stereotypes
  • Cultural differences
  • Prejudice
  • Scapegoating
  • Managing a diverse workforce

• Handling Intercultural Communication: Be sensitive to other cultures, avoid generalizations, and be open-minded; build bridges between home and school experiences

• Importance of Managing Diverse Workforce: Helps harness full potential of teams across borders.