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Discuss a situation when culture has been a barrier to your past experience/s incommunication with someone

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Instant communications and an ever-expanding internet have made the world a much smaller place, presenting both barriers and opportunities as we interact across borders with people of different cultures.

In this new, complex world of communication, cultural differences stand out as one of our biggest challenges. Different cultures affect how individuals participate in groups and how they work within communities.

Different Attitudes Regarding Conflict. Conflict is considered positive in some countries, while people in others seek to avoid it. Although conflict is not usually desired in the U.S., people here are encouraged to deal directly with conflicts that arise. In many Eastern countries, differences are best worked out in private.

Completing tasks in different ways. Cultural differences account for how people move to complete tasks. Reasons include different resource availability, different notions of time, and different ideas of how relationship-building and task-oriented work should fit together. For example, Asian and Hispanic cultures focus on team dynamics at the outset of a project and shift focus to the end goal as the project moves forward, while European-Americans focus first on the task, leaving relationships to develop along the way.

Differences in decision-making. In the U.S., decisions are frequently delegated to a subordinate. In many Southern European and Latin American countries, holding decision-making responsibilities to oneself is valued. In a group situation, majority rule tends to work in the U.S., while consensus is the preference in Japan.

Differences in attitudes toward disclosure. Expressing emotions, reasons behind a conflict or personal information may be taboo in some cultures. Questions that may be natural to you can be intrusive to someone from a different culture. This needs to be considered before you can get a good bearing of the views and goals of the people you work with.

Different approaches to knowing. Different cultures have different ideas when it comes to gaining knowledge. Europeans consider information gained through counting and measuring more valuable than other means. Some African cultures rely on knowledge gained through symbolic imagery, while some Asian cultures emphasize the validity of knowledge gained through transcendence.