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Buna ziua!

Intercultural Communication
こんにちは。
Carmen Tamas タマシ カルメン

Good afternoon! Bonjour!

Buon giorno! Buenas dias!

Class goals
● Deepen intercultural
understanding

Hi & はい

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A= South Korean university student A= American exchange student in

B = Swedish exchange student Oxford (UK)
Place = Seoul B = Australian student in Brisbane
Language = English (Australia)

Different cultural and linguistic Via Skype

environments Same language, but different

A = elderly Buddhist monk in Siem varieties of English

Reap (Cambodia) Different cultural backgrounds and

B = young female chef, Christian environments

(Cambodia)

Same: language, nationality, ethnicity

Different: religion, age, occupation,
gender

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Intercultural Communication Genuine intercultural communication goes well beyond

● the exchange of information between
individuals who are unalike culturally
(Rogers and Steinfatt 1999)
● Communication between people and
groups of diverse culture, subculture, or
subgroup identifications (Jandt 2018)
● Interaction between people whose
cultural perceptions and symbol systems
Cultural differences: narrow, simplified notions of cultural membership. In the
“culture as nation” orientation, people from a particular
• Age country (or community) are assumed to possess the same
• Class
characteristics. This reductionist stance can easily lead to
• Gender
overgeneralizations (e.g., the Japanese are modest; Germans
• Ethnicity
• Language are overly direct). For mutually satisfying intercultural
• Race relations, it is vital for us to regard ourselves and others as

differ enough to influence the • Nationality complex cultural beings with multiple identities and
• Physical/ mental ability
communication event (Samovar 2012) attributes. (Jane Jackson 2020)