Blog Assignment Week 3

Communication challenges exist in every profession and every personal relationship (O’Hair, p. 4, 2012). My communicative performance of my personal and professional aspects, I find myself communicating differently with people, organizations,  and cultures. This (my) personal identity and cultural identities influence all our (my) communication behavior, even though one may predominate in a particular situation  (Vuckovic, A. (2008).

In order to moderate the impact of misunderstanding in inter-cultural communication due to social identity predominance, we (I) should put emphasis on common human identities, and try to understand their influence on our communication (Vuckovic, A. (2008).

For example, I focus on the relationships that I have with the person, groups, or cultures. I know it is necessary to interconnection, or interdependence that function to achieve some goals.

Secondly, I thought that the communication skills that were link to culture, a group’s culture includes the language (or languages) and other symbols used by groups as well as norms and rules about how behavior can appropriately be displayed and understood (O”Hair & Wiemann, p. 10, 2012).

Furthermore, when I know one’s culture or person does not speak English.  It is inappropriate for me to used only what represent the message in one language.  Therefore, I used substituting verbal messages. Substituting is common in situations where words are unavailable (as when communicating with someone who does not speak the same language as I or when words are inappropriate (in situations that call for silence) or unintelligible (in noisy situations, as in signaling your partner you are ready to leave a party) (O”Hair & Wiemann, p. 131, 2012).

Lastly, I always used my personal listening preferences of people-oriented listeners skills.  I find it to be imperative to listen with connection in mind, and not to be judgmental.

                                                                         Reference:

O'Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.

Vuckovic, A. (2008). Inter-cultural communication: A foundation of communicative action. Multicultural Education and Technology Journal, 2(1), 47–59.