Saturday, September 24, 2011
Communication and Culture
When it comes to communicating effectively to people of different cultures I have to say that I honestly don't change my approach with getting my message across. I simply made sure that I am understood. I ask if ther is any questions and it is I answer them to the best of my ability or I try to explain in different way. I feel that if you change your appproach due to the fact you are dealing with different cultures that is not allowing an equal opportunity. When it comes to politics, sexual orientation, religion, and race I stay open minded and I am not bias to either group. I try to be a neutral individual and keep all lines of communication open so that people will recieve the vibe that I am a very easy person to talk to. Once thing I would definitely do is to ensure that my nonverbal communication skills matches up with my verbal communication skills to prevent misunderstanding. At the end of the day practicing good communicatin skills rather is nonverbal or not is the key to all understandings
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I do agree with what you are saying. As well, I am trying to work on not feeling that I need to change my thoughts or choice of words in fear of offending someone. I think at times no matter what you say a person can misinterpret what you are saying. Long as you are confident that you are purposely not belittling anyone I think you are doing the right things and taking the right approach.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you try to stay true to yourself no matter who you are communicating with. I think that we do change the way we talk to some people even if we are not trying to. It is like when a person sees a baby. They all of a sudden start talking in this high pitched voice and babble. I don't think most people realize they are doing it. It is just something that happens.
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