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Cultural barriers to communication
“Culture is the pattern of taken-for-granted assumptions about how a given collection of people should think, act, and feel as
they go about their daily affairs”
CAUSES
Most cultures have different meanings of words, behaviors and gestures, which also give
rise to prejudices, ethnocentrism, manners and opinions;
When people belonging to different cultures communicate, these factors can become barriers.
Example
in Germany, an Indian who is used to being very indirect with his/her communication
might find the German direct way of speaking rude.
Types of barriers cultural communication.
Language:
Different cultures have developed their own
language as a part of their heritage.
Not speaking proficiently can cause very mindsunderstandings.
Example:
separation of East and West Germany for 40 years
caused the language to differ a lot. The dialect became
very different as people of East Germany had an influence of Russian language whereas West
Germany had influence of English. They had a barrier in communicating with each other for decades.
Signs and symbols: Signs, symbols and gestures can vary in differents cultures.
For example, the “V” sign hand gesture with palm faced outside or inside means
victory and peace in the US, but back of hand facing someone showing the sign is
taken as insulting in many cultures.
Stereotypes and prejudices: overgeneralizing all people belonging to the same culture as having similar characteristics. Esterotypes can be donde of the reliigion, Nationality, gender, race... Negatives stereotyping produce prejudices as it provokes judgamntal attitudes
All asian people are vey smart
Colombians are narcos
Islam is a very violent religion
Behaviors and beliefs: All cultures are different and its have o cause differents behavior and belief like personality, language body, norms , communication. Cultural also sets specifics norms wich dictates behaviors as they have guidelines for aceppted behaviors.
in some cultures eye contact is important whereas in some it is rude and disrespectful.
in some countries manner are important when asking for something: please and thank you, if you dont say you are disrespectful.
Ethnocentrism: is the process of divinding cultures as "us" or "them". If the culture is similar to us, then it is good and if it is dissimilar, its bad.
the books in schools use
reference of their own culture to describe other cultures by either showing common things or differences.
Religion: religion also disrupts communication
as it creates a specific image of people who follow other religions.
people who do not follow Christianity will not go to heaven