Samovar College Essays Samples For Students

Intercultural Communications

Interview and Analysis: Re/Constructing Cultural Perceptions
Part A
Introduction:

Thank you for agreeing to an interview about your perceptions of the United States. I would like to know many things like what your impressions were before you moved here and what expectations you had formed. (Samovar, 2006, p. 219) I’m interested in understanding the events or conversations in the US that have surprised you or led to a better understand of the culture. I am also curious are you able to understand situations that may be confusing to you. I have a set of basic questions and I ...

Communication: Speech (pp.207-218)

4. Understanding Communication of Persons with Disabilities as Cultural Communication

4.1 (a) A person without disability does not actually ponder over which term to use: “disabled person” or a “person with disability” while these two terms sound differently for a person with disability. The problem is that healthy people see people with disabilities as dependent and helpless while people with disability perceive themselves as full members of a society having some health issues. Disability is just a difference for the people who have it but it is perceived as abnormality or deficiency by healthy people (Samovar, Porter and McDaniel, 2010).

4.2 (b) It is important ...

Questions: House on Mango Street

1) In terms of what Esperanza is told regarding always having a part of themselves within a community, I will tend to agree. Though there is always the possibility that someone can completely reinvent themselves upon leaving their childhood home, there will always be that small influence from their home environment that will remain. It, at the very least, heavily informs how we treat and relate to the future (as our pasts are all we have to go on to build our lives forward). In terms of intercultural communication, it stresses the importance of relating to others across cultures, as there ...

Reading Cultural Patterns Communicated through Fairy Tales

This paper analyzes the cultural patterns of Russia based on three Russian fairy tales, namely Baba Yaga (Terletski, 2012a), the Crimson Flower Russian Tale (Terletski, 2012b), and the Flying Ship Russian Folk Tale (Terletski, 2012c).

According to the Kluckhohns and Strodtbeck’s value orientations (Samovar et al., 2008), people of all cultures deal with five universal questions. In particular, these five questions aim to determine the character of human nature; the relation of human kind to nature; the orientation over time; the value placed on activity; and the relationship of people to each other (Samovar et al., 2008).

With ...

Intercultural communication in Babel

Intercultural communication is the transfer/exchange of information amongst cultures. What information is intended to mean and how it is interpreted by the recipients vary by virtue of how the information is portrayed. This becomes evident through a thorough and in-depth critique of the film Babel by Alejandro Iñarritu. Babel (2006) is a contemporary attempt to reveal the contemporary cultural diversity and various intercultural and communication challenges faced by the ordinary characters in the film.
In this pursuit, the film producer, Alejandro Iñarritu, refers to three main cinematic strategies:
(1)Emphasis on multiculturalism and diversity; Iñarritu sets ...

Introduction

Communication is an important aspect of socialization, business organizations, teams and even marketing or communicating to the public. Communication is an important part of creating relationships and networks. Communication in teams in an organization helps in the process of effective instructions as well as strategy formation (Pearce, 2009). Communication plays an extremely important role in almost every field and so it is important that there be effective usage of accuracy and power to control in case of communication as this can help in ensuring effective communication (de Valenzuela, 1992). In present times of globalization mass communication is crucial and ...

Doing Business in India

With a population of over 1 billion people, India is an important player in the global business arena. India culture is an amalgamation of traditions, religions, and cuisines that are several millenniums old (Malik, 2007). Language, caste and religion have to be considered when doing business in India. This diverse culture often poses a challenge for international managers doing business in India.

The caste system in Hinduism has created a culture with strict hierarchical relationships in India. Often Indians define themselves by the groups they belong to. The family is the most important group and many of Indian businesses are family owned. ...

All communication devices are divided into two large groups: verbal and nonverbal. It may seem that nonverbal means are not as important as verbal. In fact, it is not true. Although verbal communication is of central importance for the majority, it is incomplete without nonverbal devices. Even after developing language, people consciously or unconsciously use body movements. Eye contact, facial expressions, head movements, positioning of feet and legs, torso shifts, postures, tone of voice and even space between people during conversation are elements of body language. Professionals in the field of communication studies define these body movements as the ...

It is common practice in society for social groups to evaluate other by their cultural norms and practices. But this practice can be changed in several ways. Researchers can help overcome this on their part as well as on the part of their part on the population being studied. It is possible if they embrace and educate their subjects on the importance of multiculturalism as well as enhancing intercultural communication and sensitivity. Researchers can play the lead and show their subjects that it is possible tot to judge others on grounds f their beliefs and practices.
It is ...

Communication: Speech (pp.70-79)

1. Constructing, Negotiating, and Communicating Jewish Identity in America
1.1 Assimilation is a process of racial, national or any other minority blending into the dominant society group losing cultural identity at the same time. Sometimes assimilation can eliminate cultural boundaries. As there are many ethnical groups living in the United States, they provide many examples of assimilation, such as Mexican wife and American husband who lived next door to our home and Chinese people talking perfect English in the group of students in the University where I am studying.
1.2 An exchange of cultural features as a result of ...

Power Distance

After the study of 88,000 IBM employees working in sixty-six countries in different parts of the world, Hofstede Geert—a Dutch cultural anthropologist—ranked countries in a scale of one to a hundred on individualism versus collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and masculinity-femininity (Hofstede, 2001).

Through his research, Hofstede Geert developed four cultural dimensions, which are very useful when analyzing a country’s cultural value. This research paper provides an in-depth discussion into one of the cultural dimensions developed by Hofstede, power distance. In addition, this research paper investigates the implication of power distance on the attitudes and behavior of learners.

Power ...