Cross-Cultural Communication Class

  In reading chapter 5 Identity and Intercultural Communication in the Intercultural Communication in Contexts book I was interested in how many actual identities are available for use to relate to that I never thought about before. There were actually two things that caught my attention.  The first identity that jumped out at me was class identity. Class identity , according to Martin and Nakayama, is a sense of belonging to a group that shares similar economic, occupational, or social status  (Martin & Nakayama, 2022) . In reading about class identity, it made me realize that I tend to socialize and connect more with individuals that are in the same economic situation as me or have a similar or same occupation. I tend to be a little more reserved and introverted when around individuals that are of higher-class identity. Also looking at the types of things I prefer to do and things I grew up doing is largely different than some of my friends and co-workers that grew ...

  In reading chapter four of Intercultural Communication in Contexts , my thinking was challenged in many concepts during my reading. While we all learn history throughout school and in college, I never thought about how some events in history may be portrayed based on the culture telling the story. I also never really thought about how a personal history event could play a part in an individual’s feelings about a particular aspect of history. In my reading I came across two terms that made me think about how much information we may be missing about history from stories that aren’t represented, absent history and altered history.             According to Martin and Nakayama, absent history is any part of history that was not recorded or that is missing (Martin & Nakayam, 2022) . In thinking about absent history, it made me wonder what parts of history we don’t know about and what parts of history are concealed that nobody...

  After reading chapter 3 in Intercultural Communication in Contexts there were two concepts that jumped out at me and made me think. The orientation presented by Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck and the orientation presented by Hofstede have different views that made me think about different values and aspects of culture that affect communication.             In reading the problems identified in Hofstede’s orientation those made me think about the dynamics of our country and I was able to relate to some of them. The two orientations that I connected the most to were power distance and femininity and masculinity. Power distance , according to our book, refers to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept the unequal distribution of power (Martin & Nakayama, 2022) . This made me think about our country and even though we are a democracy we allow individuals in o...