The third principle states that communicating across cultures can often lead people to be more conscious about their own communication. The fourth principle states that cultures vary with respect to the number and kind of “do’s and taboos” that are required of its members. The fifth urges the communicator to keep in mind that learning about the norms and variations in communication styles of a particular cultural group can help increase the understanding of that particular group. The sixth, and final, principle states that if the communicator sees others as friendly, cooperative, and trustworthy, then the barriers will be more easily overcome. Now back to the Chinese Culture lol.
Conflict exists when two or more parties want the same thing or their wants are incompatible in some way. 2. Conflict must involve emotionality; it is a disturbing emotion within ourselves and may involve feelings of anger and frustration. 3. The higher the stakes, the greater the conflict; one must care to have conflict.
Listening barriers 1.physical- misconceptions, hearing aids, loss of hearing. outside noise, inside noise causes distractions and takes away from listening, can control in some way 2.personal- when you are tired, have a headache, finances cause stress, reduces listening skills, children are clinging and annoying. someone you are in competition with, personal appearance. 3.gender-most men pay little attention to what female says, men make more money, men interrupt more, women use more speech tags, men use competitive language 4.semantic- meaning of words, words we use in certain contexts change the meaning of the word as people interpret words differently. homonyms – hear-here see-sea read-red word: set- tennis set set hair set table Denotation-what the word actually means Connotation- what you think the word means Stages of listening 1.sensing stage- focusing on what is being said rather than other things going on in our lives 2.interpreting stage-understanding what the speaker is trying to communicate 3.evaluating- sorting and classifying the information you are hearing 4.responding- acting on the message to the speaker 5.memory-using your experience to relate Listening takes effort and requires a response Hearing act of perceiving the sound by ear Nonverbal communication- everything but the words expression and body language movement, eye contact, gestures, personal appearance, distance and space Formal everything you do has a reason informal something we do and cannot explain Proxemics- distance and space 1.public space-classroom setting 2.social distance-seating at a table (home or restaurant) 3.personal distance-your comfortable space around others 4.intimate distance- 18-21inches close to you Trust - high-high performance low-low
Running Head: CULTURE AND PERCEPTION: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ASIAN AND NON-ASIAN PARTICIPANTS Culture and Perception: Difference Between Asian and Non-Asian Participants Introduction In laymen’s terms, culture is defined as ones beliefs, social practices, and characteristics of a racial, religious, or social group. Perception is ones awareness, sense, or recognition of the world and everything in that world. The research articles and group experiments in this paper discuss the differences between Eastern and Western cultures perception. “When viewing scenes, Westerners tend to focus on the details of objects (such as the people and objects), suggesting an analytic style of perception. In contrast, East Asians tend to spend more time focusing on the contextual relationships (such as how the people and objects are related to one another) in the scene, suggesting a more holistic style of perception (Pastorino, 125).” The following articles and group experiments demonstrate the relationships between culture and perception.
Samuel Junior Moses Dr. John Frongillo Writing in literature Com 1102 04/23/2015 The Prevalence of Stereotyping Stereotyping is an overly simplified attitude people hold towards another person due to race, gender or ethnicity. Stereotyping affects us by allowing us to see what we expect to see, and we have a tendency to twist and distort the characteristics of others until it fits our ideas of a particular group stereotype. Sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, and physical ability are various categories which exist in stereotyping. The most prevalent and controversial forms are sex and race. In the story the “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” by Junot Diaz, the narrator stereotypes girls base on gender,
When referring to modalities we are actually talking about our primary senses such as sight, hearing, feeling, smell and taste and are often classed as secondary senses. During hypnosis we are working with the subconscious mind so, in order to achieve a successful outcome, we need to assist the client into the most beneficial state possible. When we communicate with others there are several techniques that can be used to alter the language we use to suit the needs of the client, body language, tone, and volume and far more important than the words used. Words only make up 7% of our communication, tone and volume 38% and body language 55%, so it is very important to choose carefully the wording used in hypnotic scripts when trying to bring about change in the client. (Chrysalis notes) In
John Swales, the author of “The Concept of Discourse Community” tells the difference between “discourse community” and “speech community”. And I will tell you my thoughts about it. I think, the most different point is that discourse community has a wider edge of people while speech community may have more specific situation of people. A group consisted with people speaking specific language or dialect could be called a speech community. Yet discourse community consisted by people who have the same goal, using language or some other tools to intercommunicate with each others; different language would not be a problem.
Mental and Physical Capability 7. Religion / Worldview The different aspects of diversity are shown in [ Figure 1 ]: Problem statement: Figure 1 Implementing Diversity by Marilyn Loden The surface level of cultural diversity would be represented by differences in race/ethnicity and heterogeneity; all these refer to physical features. Deep level cultural diversity refers to attitudinal differences, for example personalities, attitudes and values. As people continue to work together and interact, deep-level attitudinal similarity and differences become more important than the surface-level dimensions, when we try to improve our understanding of how diversity affects the functioning of work groups. (Addison, 2006) In response to the growing diversity in the workforce around the world, many companies have instituted specific policies and programs to enhance recruitment, inclusion, promotion, and retention of employees who are different from the privileged echelons of
At first glance, the concept of Cultural Relativism provides an insightful, well-defined perspective on culture and society; however, upon further inspection we can dissect the traditional definition of Cultural Relativism to reveal its setbacks. As James Rachels refers to them, the 1st and 4th claims made by traditional Cultural Relativists, that different societies have different moral codes and that the moral code of our own society is one of many, go hand in hand and follow logically from each other. These claims depend on the contextual definition of “moral code,” and for this argument we will consider these claims to be reasonable and thus we can interpret them as true. When it comes to the 2nd and 3rd claims made by Cultural Relativists, that the moral code of a society determines what is right and what is wrong and that there is no objective standard that can be used to judge each society’s code, we begin to see the traditional definition of Cultural Relativism pull apart at the seams.
Team 2. Executive Summary OB4: Job Attitudes & G4: Obtaining information and Evaluating people Obtaining information and Evaluating people The skill of obtaining information can help us to: Better grasp organizational capabilities, deal with project management issues, and visualize market opportunities; nevertheless we have to be very aware of the cultural comparisons that could block the flow of information. In general, concerns about sharing information directly are more pronounced in hierarchical, group oriented cultures where enduring relationships are key personal asset. More country-specific factors can influence the flow of information as well. Recommendations for obtaining information are among others: To see really what is there through the attitudes and perceptions, asking via a third party, and that could be by the form of triangulating, even changing the setting, because the degree of openness in communication is often based on the context, other option is to explain background and context or to add background to your requests, showing genuine interest and demonstrating very clearly the level of you interest or depth of your concern to be taken seriously, showing precedent because the past is as important in the future for many countries, probing politely but persistently your experience or the experience of others, never underestimate the persistent repetition of a question or similar type of questions, sometimes even rephrase the request, in order to really know whether you are getting your request made, and clarify and confirm, sending a follow up confirmation in writing will always help you certify that there’s an agreement.