communication behaviors in cross-cultural people (individualism and collectivism)

Developing Communication Behavior Concepts in a Cross-cultural Environment through Experiential Learning

Abstract

Determining communication behaviors is important in managing an intercultural workforce and in handling multicultural organizations . In fostering positive relationships across the difference multiculturalism ' reveal a classic problem of traditional American individualism . This means people come without a strong bond to the community the individual can pursue his or her own ideas and values without check by the views of other people . The process of intercultural communication involved developing a self-definition that was distinct from , yet still linked

to its parent discipline of communication . In testing communication behavior concepts in cross-cultural in an environment , experiential learning approach could be used to bridge understanding communication behaviors between cultures

Developing Communication Behavior Concepts in a Cross-cultural Environment through Experiential Learning

Multiculturalism connotes diversity in culture and society . In realization of the diversity in American culture , multiculturalism has its roots in the things that separate people from each other . Varieties of multiculturalism go in different directions but whether radical or liberal , whether emphasizing power or weakness and the distinct contributions of each ethnic group , multiculturalism keeps coming back to its roots in the word difference

The ideal of diversity , the mixing of things up , spreading the wealth creating a new concept of us , never quite ensued rapidly . In relating to racial , ethnic and sexual identity , multiculturalism carved out discrete areas of high visibility but kept those areas self-contained . Since the middle of the 1990 's , dissatisfaction with this situation has been widespread , especially as the very concept of race has been forcefully called into question . Black may have been beautiful in the 1960 's , and powerful in the 1970 's , but it has also become increasingly viewed by cultural historians as a social construct one fixed in place only by racism itself (Cotter , 2001

In fostering positive relationships across the difference multiculturalism ' reveal a classic problem of traditional American individualism . This means people come without a strong bond to the community the individual can pursue his or her own ideas and values without check by the views of other people . A multiculturalism rooted in difference exaggerates the individualist 's tendency to let one 's personal feeling become the norm for judging the rest of the world . Most people assume the correctness of their own views , and they find confirmation in their own experience . This is a universal human tendency , but one that needs to be somewhat reigned in for a society to survive

As it magnifies ethnocentricity , Charles Taylor criticized difference multiculturalism ' as he proposed a resolution of the conflict between the politics of universal dignity and the ethnocentric type of multiculturalist politics of difference . Parens (1994 ) believed that it is less a compromise than an attempt to compel ethnocentrists to achieve universal dignity . Rather than bestowing all cultures equal respect difference multiculturalism ' risks essentializing the idea of culture as the property of an ethnic group or race it risks reifying cultures as separate entities by overemphasizing the internal homogeneity of cultures...