The Elements Affect Intercultural Communication
Abstract:
With the high development of globalization, people are getting tightly connected with each other and the intercultural communication tends to be unavoidable. However, the communication may be hindered by the different cultures, for example the languages, communication styles, religions, perceptions, and backgrounds. Even the environment we live in and our personality can become the barriers of communication. Only understand those elements that affect intercultural communication can we become successful communicators.
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Intercultural communication refers to communication that takes place between people of different cultural backgrounds, whose cultural perceptions and systems are distinct enough to alter the communication events. Since people come from different culture, different place, or environment, there must be a lot of elements preventing people from understanding each other. Let’s have a quick look at the barriers.
Obviously, culture plays an important role in our communication, for culture permeates every aspect of our life. McCulloch, once said “Culture is the sum total of the beliefs, rules, techniques, institutions, and artifacts that characterized human population. In other words, culture consists of the learned patterns of behavior common to members of a given society—the unique lifestyle of a particular group of people.” So we can know exactly culture is around us and has been affecting all the time. We can misunderstand each other because of different nationality, religion, gender, generation, social class, or some kind of organization; briefly, people different culture layers. To study the reasons for differences between cultures is very useful and important, for culture may become an obstacle between the intercultural communications.
However, how does the culture affect people’s communication in different cultural aspect?
First, I should say the most prominent aspect in the cultural influence is language, for language plays an important role in communication, in which culture is transmitted. Culture finds a better representation through language use. Without language there would be no real communication. In other words, language determines the content of a society’s metal representation of their environment, and through language we shape people’s behaviors, beliefs and even culture.
Language is a factor that greatly affects communication and culture. When People from different areas speak the same language, they can communicate better and the different culture will soon be spread. Suppose that when you are inarticulate, how can you communicate with the people around you? That remains me a story in Bible: It was said that when it was the Noah’s time, people spoke the same language. They wanted to build themselves a tower with its top in the heaven. The lord felt he was threatened by human beings, so he confused their language, thus the construction ending up unfinished and people losing the capacity of communicating with each other. The story is much known as the tower of Babel. In the light of this story, we can see that language difference can drag people from different culture background away from each other.
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