Importance of Intercultural Communication

"It happens when individuals interact, negotiate, and create meanings while bringing in their varied cultural backgrounds."

• Intercultural Communication

• Intercultural competence

• 
  Intercultural sensitivity

• Intercultural awareness

It is the system of knowledge that is shared by a particular group composed of a relatively large number of individuals.

• Age

• Gender

• Social Status

• Religion

• Culture

Knowing who you are and in which cultural and social group you belong will enable you to relate better to others and to show sensitivity to them.

• Intercultural education

• Empathy

• Self-awareness

• Display of Respect

Intercultural, refers to the exchange that occurs in?

• Different place

• Different education

• Different culture

• Different perception

Which of the following is one of the reasons why we need to learn intercultural communication?

• 
  For workplace and economic globalization

• To look cool

• To dishonor other people

• Reduces fear when meeting foreigners

What is Ethnocentrism?

• The individual's level of judging other people's cultures is higher than theirs.

• Assuming that their culture is the same as the culture of others.

• Failure to communicate ideas or intentions successfully.

• A tendency to think that our culture is superior to other cultures.

What defines us as individuals is

• ethnicity

• diversity

• culture

• none of the above

Culture will be considered as a culture if _____.

• It is acceptable to the majority of people.

• No one dares to question its impartiality.

• It is shared by a common group

• The values, behavior, and attitudes are manifested.

To compare effectively in a global market, we must understand how business and cultural practices are conducted in other countries.

• True

• False

Cultural sensitivity will help us develop the ability and emotions towards understanding and appreciating cultural differences that encourage appropriate and effective behavior in intercultural communication.

• True

• False