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Cross-Cultural Communication

Let's make cross-cultural communication. Interacting with different cultures will widen our mind, and enrich our life. The cross-cultural communication will help us to find tips to make life happy and meaningful.

Let's go for cross-cultural communication.

The world is wide. Earth is big.
There are various people in the world.
There are various ideas, and a variety of cultures. People are waging their own world.
Your common sense is not applied in other countries. Even if you think it is indeed, the world do not think so.
But, some of your idea may be the best in the world. One of the pleasure to make cross-cultural communication, is to tell people in other countries something splendid of your country.
Making cross-cultural communication is also to discover yourself.
By knowing ourselves seen from the outside, we can view our life differently. It will make you more confident and proud of your own culture. The cross-cultural communication will enrich your mind and life.
Cross-cultural communication is fun, and is helpful to improve yourself.
Communication does not rely only on words.
The experience of cross-cultural communication gives us an opportunity to think about many things. How can we solve the misunderstandings? What should we do to get rid of preconceptions and prejudice? How can we increase the favorability?
Let's enjoy cross-cultural communication more and more. Let's continue to grow as a human being through the cross-cultural communication.

Cross-Cultural Communication

Culture is

Meaning of Culture
Culture is shown by turning things into sentences. Culture stands for mental activities of people that are written mainly by words. Culture is things and activities created in order to develop and enhance the life of people.
Why Culture Difference
There are various cultures in the world. Why do people have different cultures? Why isn't the world standardized? Because culture is a bunch of information and mental activities.
The Role of Culture
Culture plays a variety of roles for people living in society. People's behaviors are affected by culture. Culture will change societies and the entire country. Here we mention about the role that culture has.

Communication

Communication is
Communication is referred to transmit information. In broad meaning that is to interact with people through the exchange of information. Sharing the information will be also included in the communication.
Verbal or Nonverbal
There are two ways of communication. The way by the language, and the way hat do not depend on the language. People make communication not only by using language conversation, but by using nonverbal conversation.
Mechanism to "Misunderstand"
People will misunderstand. People do misunderstanding in everyday life, at work, on watching TV, and on reading books. Where there are communications, there are misunderstandings. But sometimes misunderstandings cause serious problems.

Mutual Understanding

Eliminating the Preconceptions and Prejudice
Knowing the different cultures and learning the communication have very important meaning. In the world, there are a lot of people with different birthplaces, different growth environments, and different thoughts.
Improve Favorable Impression
The so-called selfish people do not try to understand others. They do not think of others. And yet, they are sad saying "people do not understand me."

Identity

Who am I
When you communicate with people who have different cultures, sometimes you would feel your own identity strongly quiver. It may make you to have a fundamental question for yourself.
Proud of Your Culture
Exchanges with different cultures are the places of various discovery, and also are the places of representation. By cross-cultural communication you can know the culture that you did not know, and you will be able to express your culture.

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