Please post your answers to the following questions:
1) What is a cultural difference?
2) Is a cultrual difference good or bad?
3) What is a cultrual misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
4) How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
Hi, I'm Lorena Gomez
ReplyDelete1- Is the result of people's interaction between enviroment and contact with other one.
2- It's depend the intention. the good part is that people can share their knowledges and learn a lot. The bad part is the differents misundertandings between cultures.
3- There is some actions or phrases that have different meaning according to their culture. each people construct their point of view using their culture. Something normal in a part of the wolrd is offensive in other part.
4-We need to be proud, polite, and a little researche about ourselves, keep our expressions and use simple words, for avoid misundertandings
1) What is a cultural difference?
ReplyDelete2) Is a cultural difference good or bad?
3) What is a cultural misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
4) How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
1- A cultural difference is the result of changes in customs between cultures.
2- A cultural difference can be positive and negative. It is positive because we can learn other customs and negative because it is uncomfortable to do something differently than we are used to.
3- A misunderstanding is a misinterpretation of a message because of ineffective communication.
A cultural difference leads to a misunderstanding when the receptor doesn't know the transistor’s intention.
4- Learning different languages, researching about different cultures, and try to be as clear as possible when you have to interact with someone from a different culture.
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1) What is a cultural difference?
ReplyDeleteA cultural difference is a different style of life in beliefs, tradition and laws between different countries, people and religion that can be misunderstood.
2) Is a cultural difference good or bad?
I think it’s good because people from other countries with different cultures could meet and discover new things from different cultures.
3) What is a cultural misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
A cultural misunderstanding as its name says is a misunderstanding between people from different cultures and countries. A cultural difference leads to a cultural misunderstanding because people from other countries with different beliefs can easily get confused with a hand gesture that in one country could mean something good and in the other something bad.
4) How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
You can be successful by doing research before meeting the person with intercultural communication, by trying to be careful with the gestures you make, the tone of voice and language you use and by being kind with the person you meet.
Fradelyn Mendoza 2011-5596
1) What is a cultural difference?
ReplyDeleteIs the style or way to life of each country or just group of people? This style includes their traditions, laws, beliefs and religions.
2) Is a cultural difference good or bad?
For one hands is good because we have the opportunity to know new things, but for the other hand is like complicated and uncomfortable. For example, when you don’t know how to act and deal or behave with a person from different culture to you.
3) What is a cultural misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
Cultural Misunderstanding is when we do not know a culture and we tend to misinterpret some attitudes or gestures of that culture.
This situation usually takes place when two people from different cultures, who doesn’t know the same language try to communicate without oral communication and use other means in order to be understood, but these forms are not usually the most effective because they can have a different meaning in both cultures. Therefore the message can be misunderstood.
4) How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
I think the first thing we have to think is to investigate, inquire into the culture to be prepared and know how to behave. When interacting with people from different cultures we should maintain a standard behavior when the situation is spontaneous and we don’t have the opportunity to seek information. On that way is less likely offending someone.
A cultural difference is the set of cultural caracteristics, traditions and customs that make up and define a culture.
ReplyDeleteI consider a cultural difference good, in the sense that not only you get to know and learn about a new culture but also you learn about the things that make your culture unique and different compared to other cultures.
A cultural misunderstanding is the misconception or wrong interpretation of something inside a culture whether it is an idea, intentions, beliefs and others. Misunderstandings take place because people don't have the knowledge of things that might or might not be offensive and without knowing they end up in a really uncomfortable situation, other example iswhen we don't comprehend the intention or the idea of something said or done.
How can we achieve successful intercultural communication? Some basic information beforehand about the culture you're about to deal with, resist using unnecesary body language, but keeping at the same tolerance and respect and last but not least, having some manners.
1. What is a cultural difference?
ReplyDeleteCultural differences are all the variations that we can find between one culture and another as the traditions, laws, religions, people, etc.
2. Is a cultrual difference good or bad?
I think it could be both because it's good to have your own culture but if you don't know the others culture, people can misunderstand what you are trying to say and you can be involved in a cultural misunderstanding.
3. What is a cultrual misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
A cultural misunderstanding is what happens when a person is trying to say something but the other person understands another thing. Cultural differences are the way to the cultural misunderstanding because a single sign that in one culture can mean peace in another culture can be an insult.
4. How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
I can try to find information and learn about the other culture and i can be friendly and polite.
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What is a cultural difference?
ReplyDeleteAre the variation in the beliefs, the way of life, traditions an laws in different countries, religions, countries and people, can be use to describe the way of life or the way how interpret the language and the behavior of the native.
Is good or bad?
I think is good, because like that we can learn about other people, the way they live, talk, express themselves, etc. However depends on the culture, because there are some of them that are very strict about the education and close.
Cultural misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
They are like social conflicts between different cultures, because every country has a different way to act, to talk or to behave in front of other people. The name says everything, when someone has a different cultural in most of the cases happens the cultural misunderstanding, for example in Latin countries the people is usually more friendly than in Asia, and use to happen that when Latin’s meet Asian people don’t know how to act because they are reserved, almost don’t talk and just when is necessary, and for the punctuality is essential to close a deal.
How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
Searching about the other country
Trying to talk the language
Knowing what is good or bad for them using the body language
Daniel Armando Reyes Bacha
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1.A cultural difference is basically how two people (or more) find differences between each other in a very wide range of elements that define us as humans, and at the same time defines culture itself. From the way we speak or the language we employ, to the way we behave in society, the way each of us live our lives and how we were taught to do so.
2.It depends on how it could affect your relationship with other people. For example, meeting someone from other culture might help you expand your horizons about the world, and you get to learn things from that person or experience things that you never thought you would. But, it could be bad if by mistake you make that person feel bad or upset just because you did something that is kind of natural in you, but that is insulting or wrong for the other person.
3. A cultural misunderstanding is when a cultural meeting goes completly wrong and it happens because when the cultural difference is too big, it becomes harder to get the other person to understand what you are trying to say, and since none of you know how to treat each other you may end up doing something very insulting from the other person's perspective.
4. A good way to break the cultural barrier and achieve a good communiation is to investigate about that person's culture (what is good and what is bad) and learn from it.
Getting help from a translator can be also an excelent way to achieve a good communication.
And try to be open-minded all the time, so that when you find something that may disturb you about that culture you won't lose your temper.
Maria E. Chavez Ramirez 2011-5780
ReplyDelete1) What is a cultural difference?
Its a variation on people behavior, tradition, gestures and also religion.
2) Is a cultrual difference good or bad?
its neither good or bad, it just different. it could be bad when you are in a country were there is another way to act, to speak and stuff, but just in that situation.
3) What is a cultrual misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
A cultural misunderstanding its when you mean to say one thing and the other person gets nothing or misunderstand what you are saying.
4) How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
we can be succesful doing some reserach on the country we are visiting, or take some classes of that language to at least know the very important words that we need to know. But also we need to have self-awareness.
1) What is a cultural difference?
ReplyDeleteCultural differences are the different characteristics that distinguish people, for example sports, food, religions, and others.
2) Is a cultrual difference good or bad?
I think its good, because those difereces are the ones that makes every person different from others. They are also good because you can learn important things from others culture and make it part of your daily life.
3) What is a cultrual misunderstanding and how does a cultural difference lead to a cultural misunderstanding?
Cultural misunderstanding happen when persons from different cultures have kind of trouble to understand each other, maybe by a gesture, a word, or something that can offend the other. Cultural differences might lead to a misunderstanding, thats why we should be carefull when talking to people from other regions.
4) How can you be successful in achieving intercultural communication?
Its allways good to have an idea of how is the culture of the other person, that leads to a better understanding and better comunication