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    This document discusses cultural and global issues that affect communication. It identifies key factors like cultural identity, ethnocentrism vs cultural relativism, and stereotypes and prejudice. It also provides guidelines for improving intercultural communication abilities, such as refraining from expectations based solely on your own culture, recognizing biased education, and committing to develop multicultural communication skills. Intercultural communication success depends on commitments to seek different cultural perspectives, understand different experiences, consider context, and communicate flexibly without insisting others adopt your terms.

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    CULTURAL AND GLOBAL ISSUES

    AFFECTING COMMUNICATION
    1. identify the cultural and global issues affecting
    communication
    2. explain how cultural and global issues affect
    communication
    3. determine ways on how such issues may be
    addressed
    4. enumerate the guidelines to improve one’s
    ability to communicate interculturally
    5. make a slogan or participate in a small group
    discussion to demonstrate understanding of the
    various ways on how to communicate
    interculturally
    6. write a reaction paper on the impact of
    globalization based on the essay
    7. recognize the importance of communication on
    the society and the world
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

    Cultural and Global Issues Affecting Communication


    Cultural Differences: Influences on Cultural Identity
    -Our cultural identity is based on our group memberships
    which are determined by gender, age, racial, ethnic,
    religious, socioeconomic, political or even national
    affiliations. German et al (2003) defines culture as a
    social group’s system of meanings.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

     Our racial and ethnic identities are similarly socially


    constructed. Some racial and ethnic groups, for
    example, share experiences of oppression.
     Religious identity is at the root of countless
    contemporary conflicts occurring in the Middle East,
    India and Pakistan, and Bosnia- Herzegovina.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

     Similarly, socioeconomic identity frames how we respond


    to issues of our day. The widening gap between the
    ultrawealthy and the middle and lower classes in the
    different parts of the world is contributing to their
    developing different attitudes on a wide array of issues.
     National identity refers to our legal status or citizenship.
    People from different countries have been U.S. citizens for
    generations, yet some still perceive them as foreigners.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

    Ethnocentrism vs. Cultural relativism


    Ethnocentrism, the tendency to see your own culture as
    superior to all others, is a key characteristic of failed
    intercultural communication efforts.
    Cultural relativism is the opposite of ethnocentrism. When
    you practice cultural relativism, instead of viewing the group
    to which you belong as superior to all others, you work to try
    to understand the behavior of other groups on the basis of
    the context in which the behavior occurs rather than from
    your own frame of reference.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

    Stereotype and Prejudice


    Stereotypes are mental images or pictures we carry
    around in our heads; they are shortcuts, whether positive
    or negative, that guide our reactions to others.
    Prejudice describes how we feel about a group of people
    whom, more likely than not, we do not personally know.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

    Ways to improve your ability to communicate


    interculturally
    1. Refrain from formulating expectations based solely on
    your own culture.
    - When those you interact with have diverse
    communication styles, it is critical that you acknowledge
    the differences and accept their validity.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

    2. Recognize how faulty education can impede


    understanding. It is important to identify and work to
    eliminate any personal biases and prejudices you have
    developed over the years.
    3. Make a commitment to develop communication skills
    and abilities appropriate to life in a multicultural world.
    ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

    Your ability to develop intercultural communication


    skills depends in large part on how many of the
    following promises you are willing to make:
     I will make a commitment to seek information from persons whose
    cultures are different from my own.
     I will try to understand how the experiences of persons from different
    cultures lead them to develop perspectives that differ from mine.
     I will pay attention to the situation and the context when I communicate
    with persons from different cultures.
     I will make every effort to become a more flexible communicator.
     I will not insist that persons from other cultures communicate with me
    on my terms.

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