Manuel Rodriguez- Post 1
Summary For the past week we have been going over chapters 3,9 and 10. These chapters go over very crucial points in our communications class. Chapter three reviews intercultural communications and discusses the definitions of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and disabilities. It dives into how different cultures can be and the importance of that and it explains how different cultures speak. For example, high context cultures the speaker’s message is conveyed indirectly and can be interpreted only by referring to unwritten culture rules and subtle nonverbal behaviors. The chapter also discusses developing competence and several strategies to overcome barriers. Potential barriers for some people may be anxiety, assumed similarities or differences, stereotyping, incompatible norms and values, and incompatible communication codes. Now to fight these and work successfully when communicating with someone from another culture you can ...