ORAL COMMUNICATION MOD 2

• Intercultural communication - happens when individuals interact, negotiate, and create meaning while bringing in their varied cultural backgrounds
• Intercultural communication - communication among people from different nationalities
• Intercultural communication - sending and receiving of message across languages and cultures
• Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity - offers a structure that explores how people experience cultural differences
• Denial - the individual does not recognize cultural differences
• Defense - individual starts to recognize cultural differences and is intimidated by them
• Minimization - individuals bank more on the university of ideas rather than on cultural differences
• Acceptance - individuals begin to appreciate important cultural differences
• Adaptation - individual is very open to world views when accepting new perspectives
• Integration - individual starts to go beyond their own cultures and see themselves and their actions based on multifarious cultural viewpoints
• CRAGS - Culture Religion Age Gender Socialclass
• Avoid stereotypes
• Challenge gender norms
• be aware of taboos
• Gestures matter
• Age matters
• Sensitivity to religious practices
• Taboos - something a culture considers forbidden