COMM 1101 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 COMM

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Thomas K.Nakayama

Document Summary

Increased knowledge and skill in intercultural comm can improve your career effectiveness, intergroup relations, and self-awareness: people leave countries bc of national revolutions (syria and sudan), natural disasters. Intercultural comm expertise can facilitate interethnic relations ex of conflict: bosnia and former soviet union, tutsis and hutus in rwanda, middle east: peacebuilding, working toward stability in a region to prevent conflicts from escalating into war, ex. Benjamin broome-comm scholar facilitated interethnic relations on island of. What is intercultural communication: communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different. Intercultural comm occurs on a continuum similar on one end and dif on the other end: culture, learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors shaped by a group of people. It is dynamic (it changes), heterogeneous (diverse) and operates within societal power structures. Intercultural communication and the individual: border dwellers: not all (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es ha(cid:448)e e(cid:395)ual i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t o(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s i(cid:374)te(cid:396)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s.