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Challenges for Intercultural Communication

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict illustrates some of the biggest challenges that can arise between cultures.

Constructions of Culture

Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality are explained in the following video.

Cross-Cultural Communication

Cross-Cultural Differences

Water in Israel: Israel’s Chronic Water Problem
Cultures will often differ due to their ecology. Israel is affected by a chronic shortage of a very important resource: water. This impacts the values the culture holds.

Elaine's boss does not want to shake hands with the Japanese business men because he just sneezed and coughed. However, he does not consider his language choice when explaining why.

How Cultural Differences Affect Business

Cultural Bias

We need to rethink the way we teach kids table manners
The message that eating food with your hands is unmannered is dripping with the control and shame of colonization — and we need to rethink our idea of "good manners," says chef and food activist Joshna Maharaj.

Cultural Diversity

Cultural Forces

Explore how six forces influence cultural differences through the videos below.

Cultural Identity

Cultural Variations in the Structure of Conversations

Culture Defined

Culture Shock

GLOBE Cultural Taxonomy

High and Low Context Cultures

You can see the difference between high and low context cultures by how each child writes the instructions for this simple task.

Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions

Individualism vs. Collectivism

Intercultural Communication

Quiz: How Do You Rate Your Intercultural Skills?
This handy tool from the Council of Europe, a joint initiative from the Intercultural Cities Programme and the Pestalozzi Programme, offers a set of questions to reflect on.

Intercultural Contact

Interpersonal Relationships

Turkish Customs and Etiquette
Communicating nonverbally in culturally-specific ways can improve interpersonal relationships.
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
Interpersonal relationships and interactions are formed from the earliest age.
The Four Faces of Face
The author brings his background in communications to the arena of mediation and examines how studies in facework in communications can assist mediators in their work.

Language

Verbal Codes are Learned

We can see this illustrated in the following clip when Rachel accidentally teaches Ben profanity.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Does Time Work Differently In Different Languages?

The Most Important Language You Will Ever Learn

Monochronic vs. Polychronic

Nonverbal Communication

Gestures of Solidarity in African American Culture
Many African Americans stand, walk, dance and communicate in gestures that set them apart. Some of these movements express the marks of blackness— liberation, creativity, improvisation and self-determination—from the time of slavery to now.
Inside ‘stealth wealth’ style: How the rich secretly telegraph power
Power and wealth are often communicated nonverbally through clothing, etiquette, physical fitness, posture, and gestures.
The perfect smile
Rose Xi Man Poon, a final year dental student from University of Dundee and fellow students Ai Tan, Thean Wei Yap, Christy Ng, Jonathan Lewis, Ciara Rocks, and Erin Macaskill begin a series of articles on the topic of 'The Perfect Smile', looking at the perception of different perfect smiles around the world.
The Rich Don't Dress Like You Think They Do
How wealth is perceived and displayed nonverbally varies between social classes.

Power Distance

Social Relations Orientations

Social hierarchies, interpersonal relationships, and role expectations vary in different cultures.

Intercultural Communication Videos