Traveling brings you across many new customs and
ways of communication that you may have never heard of or experienced in your
country or region. You may get along with some of them yet may feel offended by
some or misinterpret the rest.
Cross-Cultural Communication is a
field of study that looks at how people from different cultural backgrounds
endeavor to communicate. People around the world from different
cultural backgrounds communicate with different signs and meanings than other
parts of the world. These meanings vary across cultures where one sign may
stand for another thing and mean something else in another culture or region.
Some have an appropriate meaning for an individual region but it may be
offensive to a person from a different culture or region. It is an important
study to be kept in focus in today’s world of extensive relations through
businesses, education and other forms of communication.
Some examples are:
EYE CONTACT
In the Middle – East, it is inappropriate to
look into another persons eyes directly, specially an older person. Women and
men keep their gaze lowered to show respect and shyness.
In the United States
of America, When saying hello
or talking to someone it is impolite to not look directly at the person.
In Asia, avoiding
eye contact is a greeting gesture.
Below is a video that
is a brief approach towards erasing these false impressions and narratives and
create understanding bridges instead through freedom of speech and
communication:
Link to video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUh3x_4kMv8
Link to video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0kzF4A-WQ&feature=related
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