Globalization in Intercultural Communication

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

COM 220

SPRING SEMESTER 2013

TOPIC: GLOBABLIZATION

Intercultural communicatio refers to the influence of cultural diversity and variability on intercultural communication (IC) outcomes.

IC recognizes how culture affects strongly/pervades what we are, how we act, how we think, and how we talk and listen. We are not only socialized into a cultural context, culture also influences our interaction along with many other areas such as work, gender expectations and health.

[ Extracted from class notes on overview to intercultural communication.]

Globalization according to wikipedia is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Put in simple terms, globalization refers to processes that promote world-wide exchanges of national and cultural resources. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic, and cultural activities.

Intercultural communication between peoples is an integral attribute of the human society development. Not a single country, even the one considered most powerful in political and economic aspect, can meet cultural and aesthetic requests and needs of the humankind without applying to the world cultural heritage, spiritual heritage of other countries and peoples. The modern world is developing towards globalization. In this regard, the issues about the role and the place of international communication become an integral part of life both for the humankind in general, as well as for the individual. Due to intercultural communication, nations can engage in a dialog and find understanding during the process of searching and making decisions in crisis, critical, nonstandard situations. Countries with opposite points of view on the economic crisis’s roots managed to find consensus and start...