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Communicating Within and
Across Cultures
OVERVIEW
Good day students! We are still on the topics under Communication and Globalization. In your second module, you have learned the meaning of culture, and the global village. We know that you have enjoyed reading and answering the first two modules in this subject. This time, we are going to continue to venture on the related concepts of communication and globalization. This module focuses on the guidelines and barriers of an effective communication across globalization. We hope that you will enjoy and the most important thing is for you to learn this.
Communicating Within and Across Cultures
Aside from face to face interaction, our communication between and among individuals is not easy because we use verbal and non-verbal symbols specially within and across cultures. Within our families, we have learned, developed and used non-verbal symbols (through imitation), which is not even accepted within as among our age group. Imitating expressions regarding others may bring misunderstanding and confusion to other people. Yet we manage to copy or mimic the sounds without even thinking what we are
YOU ARE EXPECTED TO:
➢ Know the meaning and ways of communicating across different cultures; ➢ Internalize the guidelines on developing intercultural competencies; ➢ To be aware and limit the barriers to effective intercultural communication. ➢ Know the importance and impact of communicating with other people of different cultures.
MODULE 3
3 hrs/ 1 week
doing. My dear students, this is not the whole or complete story, why? The role of media and media events, in which we are exposed to us has a negative and positive risks because we sometimes do not evaluate what is appropriate and effective. Because to others in real life can be quite difficult and can turn into conflict and add up are turn into conflict because we may not know what possible things would happen. Arnold Torrybee once remarked that “The quality in human nature on which we must pin our hopes is its proven adaptability.” All we are really capable of fully understanding our culture and all the languages of the world, as well as how they are similar and different from one another? Torrybee is right that we must prove our adaptability to different cultures by bridging the gaps, that is, we need to be positive and open-minded, request cultural differences regardless how strange or primitive they are or seem to us. These differences are common within and among our beliefs and assumptions involved in the communication exchange when we are communicating with someone from another culture. Well, it has something to do with our ethical principles (to do good or to avoid evil?) such as gender equality, bribes, payoffs in doing business, favoritism, and profound disregard for the environment. However, there are variety of ways (Adler, Elmhorst, & Lucas, 2013) which we can respond in cases like we are being trapped to do such things.
Guidelines on Developing Intercultural Competence
Guidelines are patterns or testimonies that one has to live with no matter or whatever his/her culture or subculture is, how unique or special it is, everyone deserves to be treated with respect the way you want to be treated as a human being. Loren Eiseley says “Without the past the pursued future has no meaning.”
- Getting acquainted with people from other culture makes you understand the group and their culture better.
- Through constant reading of books, surfing the net, and doing online and offline courses about people of different cultures, informs and allows you to examine and appreciate others more.
- Paul Claudel remarks that “The only living society is by that which is inequality and injustice. Deep self – examination makes you realize that unfair judgment and prejudices is wrong.
- Follow Confucius’ Golden Rule, “Putting yourself into someone’s shoes creates ‘understanding’, why and people feel and experience in different angles. Edward Murrow has to say that “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices just recognize them”.
- What we sow, is what we reap. Our action reveals who we are. If we are positive about ourselves, our impression from others will also be the same.
- Exploring and going out of from your comfort zone is discovering and exhibiting
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ACTIVITY 1
Answer the following questions in essay form.
- Recall one instance when you encountered problems/difficulty while communicating with someone (conversations with a friend, a stranger, a family member or a foreigner.) What strategies (give at least 2) did you use to make your message clear? What did you do to better understand what the other person was telling you? Write in a separate paper. (10 points.)
- If you were to add the last two guidelines on communicating effectively, what particular VERB will you use at the beginning of your sentence? Write them below ( points).
- Why do you think “anxiety” is considered one of the barriers in intercultural communication? Explain in 3 sentences (5 points)
- Television, books, comic strips, wattpads and movies, are all abundant sources, site of any that portrays stereotyped characters (may it be in a form of race, ethnicity, social clan, gender, sexual orientation, or religion). Answer the questions in not more than four sentences. (20 points.) a. What cultural group is being stereotyped?
b. What characteristics (or stereotype) are attributed to the group?
c. What biases or prejudices did the character endured against stereotype?
d. Is the stereotyping accurate or justified? Why?
- Family members are oblivious of everything around them because they are busy with their cellphones or tablets. Rules on all-phone use at home must therefore, be made and strictly followed. Do you agree? Give five rules on cell-phone use at Home and school. (10 points)
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So, How Do We Cope Up with People of Different Cultures? There are many ways to adapt with other culture. Are you familiar of “CANE”? It is an acronym which refers to the following terms and these are what we need to understand well, here we go… C – Collaboration/Problem Solving – working with the other party to reach out for mutually satisfying solution. A – Avoiding – refusing to comply or do business with other cultures that operate ethical principles that differ from us. A – Accommodating – accepting the different ethical system and conforming to practices different from ours. N – Negotiating/Compromising – believing that we do not want conflict, we need therefore to submit for amicable settlement or to negotiate common understanding and beliefs. E – Educating/Persuading – convincing the people with whom we want to transact business such as explaining and elaborating why our ethical principle is more appropriate. To further understand all these principles, the last one is FORCING … insisting on doing business in a way we believe is ethically proper. Having these in mind will surely benefit as well as other people’s understanding that cultural differences really exist. To end our discussion, Henri Carter Bresson once retorted that “Success depends on one’s general culture, on one’s set of values, one’s clarity of mind and vivacity. The thing to be most feared is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life. Key Points/Summary Communication within and across cultures has a big impact in our lives. Besides there is an appropriate response to whom we are communicating. There are also guidelines on developing intercultural competence. And also, we have identified barriers to communication which had given us ideas on how to effectively communicate. These ideas are really beneficial us, as humans, as we live in a world full of diverse complexities, meeting other people and relating to others experiences as to have a meaningful existence. REFERENCES/SOURCES:
- Padilla, M., Dagdag, L., & Roxas, F., Communicate & Connect, Purposive Communication, Mutya Publishing, (2018)
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ACTIVITY 3
Create a slogan or a caricature that represents communication and globalization
“APPENDIX A”
***** Transcription is based on the Purposive Communication book, published by Mutya Publications, (2018) authored by M. Padilla and F. Roxas.
