Assignment: Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication
• What are some key challenges that communicators face in intercultural communication situations and what are some specific ways they can resolve them?
• What are some specific ways that differences in one's key cultural values (e.g. low versus high context culture, power distance, individualism versus collectivism) can create problems in intercultural communication situations? How can communicators successfully address these value differences?
• How does the way we speak influence how others perceive us and how they communicate with us? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
• Do you believe that one's gender makes a difference in how one is perceived in the world, specifically how one communicates with others and is communicated with by others? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
• How does the experience of first-generation immigrants impact their daily experience? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
• What impact does socioeconomic status have on how one communicates with others? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
• How can differences in co-cultural group membership lead to misperceptions and miscommunication? What are some specific ways that these can be resolved?
o Groups to consider: Disability, Deaf culture, religion, hobbies, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age...
• Do you believe that one's appearance (e.g. dreadlocks, headscarf, gender fluidity, tattoos, scars, disability) makes a difference in how one is perceived in the world, specifically how one communicates with others and is communicated with by others? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
• What are the major causes of intercultural communication conflict? How can these causes be successfully resolved? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
• People who move to and/or do work in a new country should be expected to conform to the cultural values, norms, and traditions of their new country. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your position and provide evidence to support it.
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