Cross Cultural Communication

What is cross-cultural communication?

• The process of recognizing differences and similarities among cultural groups

• The process of promoting one's own culture over others

• The process of ignoring cultural differences

• The process of avoiding communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

Why is cross-cultural communication important?

• To enforce one's own cultural values on others

• To avoid communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

• To create more cultural differences

• To understand the communication patterns of different cultural groups

What is the visible level of culture?

• The level that explains how members of a cultural group communicate

• The level that includes physical and visible elements of culture such as dress, art, music, monuments, food, and artifacts

• The level that shapes attitudes, values, goals, and means shared by cultural groups

• The level that shows how to deal with cultural differences

What does the behavioural level of culture explain?

• How to enforce one's own cultural values on others

• How to deal with cultural differences

• How members of a cultural group communicate, explain, rationalize, and behave in different situations

• How belief systems shape attitudes, values, goals, and means shared by cultural groups

What do belief systems shape?

• The process of avoiding communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

• Attitudes, values, goals, and means shared by cultural groups

• How to deal with cultural differences

• How members of a cultural group communicate, explain, rationalize, and behave in different situations

What is not informed about at the visible level of culture?

• How to deal with cultural differences

• Physical and visible elements of culture such as dress, art, music, monuments, food, and artifacts

• How members of a cultural group communicate, explain, rationalize, and behave in different situations

• How belief systems shape attitudes, values, goals, and means shared by cultural groups

What is possible at the superficial level of culture?

• Promotion of one's own culture over others

• Enforcement of one's own cultural values on others

• Adaption to cultural differences

• Avoidance of communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

What does the belief system level help in formulating?

• Enforcement of one's own cultural values on others

• Promotion of one's own culture over others

• Avoidance of communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

• Suitable business negotiation strategies

What does understanding belief systems help in resolving?

• Business negotiations

• Cultural differences

• Avoidance of communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

• Enforcement of one's own cultural values on others

What does understanding belief systems help in using?

• Appropriate verbal and nonverbal symbols

• Enforcement of one's own cultural values on others

• Avoidance of communication with people from different cultural backgrounds

• Promotion of one's own culture over others