Inter-cultural Communication

Personal Thinking: Understanding inter-cultural communication starts from understanding culture which can start with its types , characteristics and then form appropriate metaphors.

Inter-cultural Communication

• Culture
• What is the culture
  • a whole complex system with anything related to people
• beliefs and values
• customs and behaviors
• knowledge and art
• symbols and language and so on
• capabilities and habits
• type
• Material culture
• Nonmaterial culture
• Metaphors
  • An iceberg
  • An onion
  • The software of our mind
  • The water a fish swim in
  • A pair of glasses
• Characteristics
  • Learned
  • Shared
  • Based on symbols
  • Dynamic
    • Rather than static
  • Integrated
    • Known as holism
• Personal Thinking: Understanding inter-cultural communication starts from understanding culture which can start with its types , characteristics and then form appropriate metaphors.