COM 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Culture Shock, Systematic Desensitization, Ethnolinguistics

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Center for Written and Oral Communication
• Course: COM 1000
• Professor: Kellerman Edmund

Document Summary

Intercultural communication: generation ago, most ameries exposure to other countries was from. Taiwanese family that ran chinese restaurant in neighborgood: as of 2005, hispanic and african minorities now compromise majority of. Texas: america is more culturally diverse, past 20 years explosion of variety of immigrants, no longer just european and latin, 20 years ago never heard about ethiopiana, albanianas, kosovo, etc. Foreign countries make up 5-40%(midwest cali: world is becoming smaller through globalization, we have to adjust to new communication demands. Some demands are technical, speaking fluently, to social. Intercultural communication: the way people from different cultures share meaning through symbolic verbal and nonverbal behavior, some interaction is smooth regardless of language, some poorly bc of minute differences. 5 research conclusions to supply communication differences. Way of classifying related items in a concept expanded list of most important factors. Listed world view and philosophy * most significant difference.