Unit 5 Assignment 1: Intercultural Conflict Analysis What I believe the sources of conflict are poor communication, differing values, differing interests, scarce resources, personality clashes, and poor performance. These can ultimately lead to a lot of things depending on the setting. In a work environment, it can lead to someone losing their job. Between individuals, it can lead to a fight or loss of a relationship. If nations are involved, it can lead to imminent war.
Culture is shared norms and values and ways of interacting that bind together members of society or some other collection of people together. Across cultures, the classification systems differ, e.g. in west, it is abnormal to hear voices but in some religions hearing voices can be desirable. A lot of diagnosing is to do with social norms, however these can easily change over time or space. The DSM and similar books are often made in western society so they can’t be used correctly in eastern societies making them culturally biased.
There are certain things in life that are going to collide or clash. One of these things will be culture and tradition. Cultural collision can be an issue within a family, for example. One person may be from another country and the other from another. Each person will have different cultural traditions that they will have to balance out.
People’s attitude towards the use of standard and non-standard English varies depending on their upbringing, culture and subjectiveness ass the two forms of English are different in purpose and are context dependent. The use of non-standard English can be to save time due to its ease in its construction and can also enable communicating ones beliefs and culture. However unlike non-standard English, Standard English make it difficult for interlocutors to build closeness due to it mainly being used to convey prestige, power, formality and professionalism. Due to the advancements in technology, many people have shifted from once using Standard English to now using non-standard English majority of the time. Since Standard English is usually time consuming to construct and difficult to use, people find it easier to use non-standard English, where the governing rules and grammar are more flexible making it efficient and easy to use.
Some of the challenges that arise when communicating with different cultures are difference in communication styles, attitudes towards conflict, decision-making styles, and approaches on tasks. It is important we accept each and everyone’s differences. Non-verbal communication may be more effective when dealing with different cultures and languages. Effective communication requires special attention and consideration from each party. When cultural barriers exist, one must rely on nonverbal communication to relay the correct message.
The act of improving someone else's situation in some way, even it it just involves listening, takes the persons own anxieties down a notch or two in importance and therefore they concentrate on the difficulties of others. Many professions where helping other is the main focus will have more than their fair share of people who use this tactic. Abstract Mrs X 35 feels concerned that she dominates conversations, that people do not find her interesting, worries that she will run out of things to say which would create an awkward silence. Self creates anxiety around certain people and certain social situations so will find a reason to cancel and not attend. Introduction In our initial meeting Mrs X came across as a very bright, intelligent and confident lady with no outward signs of any issues or worries as was very bubbly and outgoing in personality.
Members from different parts of the world that belong to an International project team can come across misunderstanding because of cultural differences. The West Europe district with different work styles and attitudes can diverge across parts of Europe. Understanding sessions can focus on addressing the problems dealing with attitudes. Diversity was introduced to all over the world to prevent discrimination and harassment. Kilbride, K. (1997).
Advertisement, commonly viewed as a way to promote a product, is more than what it seems. In the present day, critics view advertisements as a propaganda that guides the audience the wrong direction. Mr. Schrank suggest that some people who watch advertisements are vulnerable to the “ad’s attacks.”(Doc. E) However, I disagree, advertisements are informative to our daily lives; without them our world would probably fall apart. They do just more than promote a product; an advertisement helps wage for jobs, educate people, and also explains how to make our lives better.
Feeling helpless due to the economy they become addicted to claiming help from other sources other than themselves because it just seems easier. Thomas argues,” Anyone who thinks dysfunctional government is going to help their dreams is putting their faith in the wrong place.” In other words, the government cannot help everyone. Instead we should but putting our faith into ourselves. We are what makes America today, and if we don’t like it, then maybe we should take action and change it. If we were to start by supporting small business, we would be creating more employment, and keeping money in the community.
They think the inclusion might erode at their morals by having to deal with people who may not believe what they do or even look like they do. So they seek to maintain a perfect image of their society. Specifically certain members of the the United States government has sought to close down the borders and many americans devote themselves to just that job. The United States has primarily