Barriers to Cross-Cultural Communication, examples, solutons

Barriers to

Cross-Cultural Communication

Culture is the "lens" through which one views the world. In communication, people respond to their experience, not to reality itself. Cultural incompetence raises barriers to cross-cultural communication.

Cultural Intelligence helps understand cultural differences and reduce barriers to cross-cultural communication.

Culture is pervasive. It is invisible, but it works holistically and relentlessly. Cultural differences arise from different origins: birthplace; nationality; ethnicity; family status; gender; age; language; education; physical condition; sexual orientation; religion; profession; place of work, and so on.

Culture

What Is Culture

Cultural Differences

Work-related Cultural Differences

Cultural Blindness as a Barrier to Communication

Cultural blindness makes people ignore cultural differences, speak and act as though differences do not exist, and thus prevents the culturally-blinded ones from making conscious efforts to reduce barriers to cross-cultural communication.

Cultural Intelligence

Importance of Cultural Intelligence

World Cultures

East vs. West

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

Tagore

An Example of Cultural Differences within Europe

as a barrier to cross-cultural communication

Belarus vs. Western Europe

Soul and life values as expressed in their most popular songs

Cultural Incompetence as a Barrier to Communication

You cannot treat everybody the same regardless of culture without adverse consequences. Acts that people from one culture perform every day and phrases that they use all the time with each other could be offensive and judged negatively by people from a different culture.

Cross-Cultural Communication

Communication

9 Secrets to Nurturing Your International Relationship

For instance, North Americans view direct eye contact as a sign of honesty, while in many Asians view direct eye contact as a form of disrespect.

Simple gestures that would be benign or complementary in one country could be a gross insult in another country.

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Stereotyping as a Barrier to Communication

Generalizing about a representative of a culture while ignoring presence of individual difference; mindset “they are all like that."

Cultural Imposition as a Barrier to Communication
Believing that everyone should conform to a certain culture whose representatives think they know what's best for everyone.

Ethnocentrism as a Barrier to Communication

Inability to accept another culture's world view and values; mindset “our way / style of democracy / values are the best."

Discrimination as a Barrier to Communication
Discriminatory treatment of a person or a cultural group due to minority status – actual, perceived or imposed.

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