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Improving intercultural communication (Prepare yourself (Videos, Magazines…
Improving intercultural communication
Prepare yourself
Videos
Magazines
Websites
Recognize and face fears
Reduce your ethnocentrism
Try not to look at the world through the lenses of your own culture
Confront your stereotypes
2 major barriers created by stereotyping
Project qualities, good and bad, onto a person before even knowing them
May fail to benefit from the special contributions that each individual brings
Be mindful
Be aware of your surroundings
Recognize differences
Differences between yourself and culturally different people
There are differences between people
Differences within the culturally different group
Not everyone within a cultural group is the same
Differences in meaning
Cultures affect what particular words mean to people
Adjust your communication
Different cultures use different signals to mean different things
You can only communicate to the extent that you and another person share the same set of symbols
Recognize culture shock
The honeymoon
Fascination, enchantment
The crisis
Differences create problems
The recovery
Gain the skills to function
The adjustment'
Adjust and come to enjoy the new culture