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Intercultural Communication Black Lives Matter movement Breaking point Donald Trump - walking example of intercultural communication conflicts Culture of Auckland - Auckland is more diverse than London or New York - more foreign people in a major city - Not just in the streets but in the classes that we are starting to see difference in cultures there is a need to adapt and be more sensitive when we come across people of different cultures “You live in an era where intercultural communication skills are not just an asset they are a requirement”. (McDaniel, Samnovar and Porter, 2012, 4) “We live with 7 billion fellow humans on a small warming plant. The cosmopolitan impulse that draws on our common humanity is no longer a luxury; it has become a necessity.” The more you scroll through your NZ apps these issues are very real of intercultural Profession Application: To communicate with cultures other than your own Helps us under our own culture and others Scholarly Application: To better understand culture, power and politics in knowledge creation and communication Personal Application: To better understand you own cultures. Others cultures and the relationships between them Democratic Application: To faster a fair and equal society that protects the rights of all “Culture is the collective programming of the mind” (Geert Hofstede) - culture is like software and that we have to be programmed to know our culture and there is different programming depending on where we grow up or come from. “Culture is a kind of storehouse or library of possible meanings and symbols (Ron Schollon) “Culture is how thing are done here” (John Mole) “Culture is not a box to check on the questionnaire of humanity. It is a process you join: a life lived with others” (Anthony Kwame Appiach)

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To go with quotes above It's the rules of culture who change 19th century culture had elitist connotation - savargy Culture = Civilisation as opposed to savager Now culture is ordinary Everyone has a culture “I don't have an accent” - is how you are brought up, your accent is the norm

Our culture forms our views about: - The origins of human beings - The nature of time space and reality - The existence of a supreme being - Life after death (Oetzel 2009; Ting - Toomey 1999) I am standing here with my ancestors from my past current and future Nation state - NZ identity is changing concept which is not a change of culture but state Study of “EVE” “EVE” MITOCHONDRIAL -

“Eve” lived approximately 100- 200,000 years ago She is every human being on earth's matrilineal most recent common ancestor All humans in all cultures alive today descended from her (Cann et al. 1987)

Culture is something that learned - that helps you know how to treat other people through awareness, common factor requires communication Culture is communication of how we present ourselves Culture is about context it is about what is words what is not - Jandt (2007,33) - check slides Own way of creating systems and processes Iceberg model - Not what you see is what you get - language and verbal symbols can not be seen Cultural norms and values - through how we treat people - how to be successful - We proserve symbols

Race is something we make it does not make us f living/working/socialising with people from different ethnicities

Big family , lots of kids, kiwi upbringing, very normal upbringing, typical New Zealand culture, 60’s had a lot of freedom - different time - could go off for the day and just do what you want to do, total freedom in many ways, much more basic world hardly any technology or social media, very locally focused - not compared to now worldly focused - in childhood did not did not read much news - very focused in little community compared to big picture

knowledge about other ethical groups

experiences when she lived in Finland on a scholarship exchange for a year

You will need to describe your individual in terms of their social, historical, political and/or geographical context. However, the main focus of the essay should be the analysis of the individual’s experiences, and the application of Intercultural Communication theoretical concepts.

Culture is a progressively overworked term used in contemporary society, which expresses different variations repetitively appearing in a demanding media such as cultural diversity, multiculturalism, corporate culture, cross- culture (Samovar, L. A., Porter, R. E., & McDaniel, E. R. 2009). Culture is ordinary and everyone has culture.

What makes up our assumptions of someone can impact “culture is ordinary

What culture does Culture… “ranks what is impor tant, furnishes attitudes about what things are appropriate, and dictates behaviour.” (Varner & Beamer 2011, 10)

As Identified by Hofstede, culture can be defined in many ways, culture is "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another." (1991, p.5).

Indicating that the relevance influences from inside a relationship or organization for instance, and performance and way they interact.

relative significance of details

Culture can be defined in many ways, in a short definition given by Hofstede (1980) "culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others". Hofstede (1983) points out that his dimensions are relevant influences inside organizations, for instance, in leadership process and performance evaluation. This way many researches in accounting gives a large focus to cultural differences between countries and how these differences affects the setting and design of systems. For instance, Harrison (1993) studied the influences of culture and personality on the relation between reliance on accounting performance measures in Singapore and Australia. He points out that national culture has influenced on the design of management accounting systems

Our culture provides regulation for life and provides individual identities. Today the term culture refers to the totality of a large group’s thoughts, behaviors, and values that are socially transmitted, as well as to members who consciously identity with the group. The term subculture refers to a group that exists within a culture, usually based on social class, ethnicity, or geographic region. As the prefix sub can mean “less than,” some scholars prefer the term

co-culture to indicate that no one culture is inherently superior to other coexisting cultures. Finally, the term subgroup refers to groups that provide members with relatively complete sets of values and patterns of behavior and in many ways pose similar communication problems as cultures Twentieth-century scientists have found no single race-defining gene. The sociohistorical concept of defining race explains that racial categories have varied over time and between cultures. Worldwide, skin color alone does not define race. Scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that White people in the United States are observed by other groups to be distinct, superior, and unapproachable, whereas Whites themselves are relatively unaware of their racial identity compared to people of color. The term contact zone refer to the space in which cultures come into contact and establish ongoing relations, usually involving coercion, inequality, and conflict. The term othering refers to the labeling and degrading of cultures and groups outside of one’s own. Indigenous peoples, women, lesbians and gay men, and ethnic groups have been othered by other groups in language. One common way is to represent the Other is as the binary opposite, for example, “Colonists were hardworking; natives were lazy.” Finally, today’s challenges in the contact zone are identified as ethnic and religious conflict, the changing role of women, technology...