inter cultural communication

Inter-cultural communication

Cross cultural communication looks at how people, from different cultural backgrounds, strive to communicate this is frequently referred to inter-cultural communication. The concept of inter-cultural communication is based on the observation and consideration of values across culture which are considered to be varying among cultures as far as an international culture is referred (García-Carbonell, A. & Rising, B. 2006).

When studying inter-cultural communication it is important to understand the concept of sociocultural anthropology as a related field of inter-cultural communication. Sociocultural anthropology is the holistic study of humanity. Anthropologists argue that culture and established areas of communication refer to the process of exchanging information, usually via a common system of symbols (García-Carbonell, A. & Rising, B. 2006).

Human being has evolved a universal capacity to conceive of a world symbolically, to teach and learn such symbols socially, and to transform the world (and ourselves) based on such symbols. The activity of understanding and adapting symbols can be defined as “inter-cultural practice.” Since cultural practices comprises the way people do different things in a given culture.  This inter-cultural practice is linked to knowledge of the world taking into consideration different contexts which intervene and determine the level of understanding and, consequently the communication process (García-Carbonell, A. & Rising, B. 2006).      

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