Intercultural communication

Intercultural Communication

Cultural Observation Journal 1

Critique of the Article

Introduction

In the era of internationalization and globalization, the communication between different cultures is becoming increasingly important: it presents a local level with an increasingly multicultural, a regional multinational institutions and cooperation in international organizations with transcontinental world, as well as in cyberspace (Lustig, 1996). The article “Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication across Cultures” is written by Lustig, Michael & Koester, Jeffery. The article comprehensively lays out various issues to intercultural communication and various strategies to cope with it.

Discrimination

“Any act that directly or indirectly lead to a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference against an alien based on race, color, descent, or national origin, religious beliefs and practices, and which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social and cultural.”

Ethnocentrism

"Trend, usually superior, by which we judge to foreigners according to the norms, values ??and standards by which we have been socialized ... a source of patterns of prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and stereotypes ... reduction to try to understand (the) types behavior without judging foreign ... "

Stereotypes

"A set of characteristics attributed to a group of people (their appearance, their culture, and customs), generalizing factor that serves to categorize people, denying their individual identity."

Mental images

Simplified we form of the members of a group or reality

being socially shared such images;

others fall from one or two aspects of their group, ignoring the characteristics of each person

Prejudice

"Perception of others, and moral evaluation simplistic, generalized and categorical, not based on personal experience but with a strong emotional charge."

Preconceived idea about something or someone based on stereotypes.

opinion issued without checking their validity by the facts

or prevented hostile attitude toward another person that belongs to a group, assuming that it has the objectionable ...