Dynamics of Communication
- 1. Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technical Education and Research Centre, Navsari Subject: Effective Technical Communication Subject Code: 3130004 Dynamics of Communication Prepared by: Tanvi Patel Assistant Professor Computer Department
- 3. Culture Understanding Understanding culture is critical for educators because our individual cultural orientation is present in every interaction. ... Culture is a combination of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns that are shared by racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups of people. To understand peoples behaviour. To prevent misunderstanding. To respect the difference between cultures. To communicate the right message to the right people.
- 4. Continue… It is helpful if you can think about culture in the following five ways: I. Culture is learned. II. Culture is shared. III. Culture is dynamic. IV. Culture is systemic. V. Culture is symbolic.
- 5. Interact with people who come from diverse cultures This is one of the ideal ways of learning and understanding other people’s cultures. One way of achieving this is going for international camps. The advantage of attending these camps is that you meet people from different countries. Not only do you learn about their culture, but you also teach them your culture. Having a one on one interaction with people helps you hear their stories first hand. Take this opportunity to ask questions you may have about the culture, and teach them everything they want to know. This way, you learn from each other.
- 6. Benefits In today’s ever-changing world, people world over are fast realizing the importance of learning, understanding, and appreciating diverse cultures. Why is this necessary? Because It plays a major role in developing communities that excel in problem-solving and enhancing varying conditions. 1) You get to understand world better: Different cultures helps you embrace and appreciate people that are different from you. Further, the more you interact with other from different cultures, the more you respect and value them. For example: Going for summer camps or holidays are a great way of exposing your children to diverse cultures and practices. Whether they will interact with other children from different countries or regions, they will learn something new during camp.
- 7. Continue… 2) Minimize Stereotypes: When your children learn about people and their different cultures, they’ll be less likely to classify them depending on stereotypes (particular category of people). Remember, everybody is different and what one person does shouldn’t be used to define an entire community. 3) Helps Prevent and overcome ethnic and racial divisions: Ethnic (i.e cultural group) and racial divisions (national or tribal) can hurt society. For instance, it could lead to a lack of opportunities, misunderstandings, and in the worst cases, violence.
- 8. Continue… 4) Enhance Effective Communication: Language is a critical part of human communication. However, it’s not the only contributing factor to effective communication. Culture enhances communication in varying ways. For instance, culture can influence speaking tendencies such as; figurative language, speed, and presentation. Culture also contributes to the way people depict their gestures and body language.
- 9. Continue…. 5) Creates opportunity to meet new people: There are different ways of meeting new people. For instance, participate in different celebrations, attend camp, visit people from diverse cultures, and celebrate special days. This enables students, especially, to meet, interact with, and make new friends. This is an ideal way of expanding a student’s social circle and creating room for them to learn about different cultures.
- 10. Continue… 6) Exposure to new experiences: Children can get exposed through; sampling new foods, participating in different cultural celebrations and listening to stories. Further, engaging in different activities such as art or even learning how to play a new musical instrument. Exposure to new things helps children to explore the world better.
- 11. What is Intercultural Communication? Intercultural communication is the verbal and nonverbal interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds. Basically, 'inter-' is a prefix that means 'between' and cultural means…from a culture, so intercultural communication is the communication between cultures. Example: Sometimes, it is used to describe a single person trying to interact in a foreign environment but more often, it is a two-way street, where people from both cultures are trying to improve their communication.
- 12. Example of Intercultural communication
- 13. Example In other words, it's the process of communicating with people from another culture. Intercultural communication is about much more than just language, since so much of communication is nonverbal.
- 14. Importance of Intercultural Communications Peoples style of communication is the outcome of the culture in which they have brought up. Verbal aspects include different languages used by different languages, used by different communities and non verbal aspects encompass the volume with which one speaks, the way the emotions are expressed, etc. In viable business surroundings, intercultural communication helps the employees and organizations to stand distinct and create their own value in the market.
- 15. Continue… Intercultural communication skills help to achieve thoughtful discussions and help with developing business contracts and deals. People who possess such skills are able to boost free flow of communication with the people of differing background and culture and have more fruitful formal relations. Intercultural communication plays a significant role in a persons intercultural potentials, or influence the peoples potential to get with the other culture.
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