CMN 2181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interpersonal Communication, Culture Shock, New Media

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2181
• Professor: Staff

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Cmn2181 - interpersonal communication across cultures - 13/01/20. For example, tourism, education and the media are taking place on a global scale. Language, food and art are all cultural components. Example: we need adaptation to deal with culture shock. It"s shared between people and understood because of sets of interpretations. Interpretations, messages and symbols form the link between communication and culture. It involves beliefs, values, norms and social practices. The shared interpretations about beliefs, values and norms affect the behaviors of large groups of people. This means that culture makes human interactions predictable to a certain degree. It involves large groups of people who have common cultural elements. Belief: the basic understanding of what the world is like or what is true or false. Value: what people define as good or bad. Norm: the rules for appropriate behavior expected from people. Social practices: the predictable behavior of members of a culture. Important: some people have more than one culture.