Cross-Cultural Communication Class

               In reading chapter two of my Intercultural Communication in Contexts book there were many aspects in the chapter that stood out to me but one in particular that upset me in terms of intercultural communication. In reading the chapter the concept that bothered me the most was the idea of the critical approach. According to the text by Martin and Nakayama, the critical approach is a metatheoretical approach that includes many assumptions of the interpretive approach but that focuses more on macrocontexts, such as the political and social structures that influence communication (Martin & Nakayama, 2022) . This concept upset me as it focuses more culture as a battel ground where there is always a winner and a loser with the winner more often being the more dominant force. The other reason I think this concept bothered me so much is due to the use of textual analysis , which is the examination of cultural texts such as the media (Ma...

  The first chapter of this class had many aspects that jumped out at me and not only made me think but made me aware of things about myself I wasn't aware of. To begin I've never thought about so many imperatives that could affect cultural communication. There was one imperative that jumped out at me the most and that was the Demographic Imperative. I had never thought to take into consideration how the changing  demographics  (Martin & Nakayama, 2022)  of individuals that reside on the U.S could affect the cultural  diversity . Currently the demographics are shifting, and now non-Hispanic whites make up 60% of the U.S. population. According to the book I am reading for class the population of Hispanics, Blacks and Asians are projected to continue to increase through 2050 (Martin & Nakayama, 2022) . This shows the changing demographics compared to previous years where whites were the majority population. Growing up in a more rural location I didn't see ...