Cultural Diversity in Cross-Cultural Settings
A Global Approach
The 21st century is marked by the intensive movement of people across international borders. While languages are used as a means of interaction across the globe, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values and norms may result in misapprehension and communication breakdowns in various settings.
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
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Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times
A Critical Approach
We have become accustomed to the fact that certain intercultural terms such as differences, diversity, intercultural competence or inclusion have become cornerstones. In this essay, the author attempts to examine these concepts by turning them inside out, pointing out the origin (and purpose) of many of them and, at the same time, highlighting some shortcomings: for example, illness is not a welcomed element in intercultural discourses, which the author explains through what she calls ‘autogenous differences’ and by recovering an analysis of what, by convention and convenience, we have called…
This essay turns intercultural concepts inside out, pointing out their shortcomings and dissecting the real obstacles to communication: identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and exclusionary differences. It is a call for us to become culturally resilient and readjust our mirrors.
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