I want each of you to go the Journal of Intercultural Communication read one article from any of the issues. After you have read the article post a summary of the article here.
I read "Changing intercultural attitudes over time." In this article, a study of changes in peoples cultural acceptance was examined. This study was done at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal and involved two groups: a control group; that took a musical expression course and a test group; that took a cultural diversity group. The study proved that taking a cultural diversity course could have a positive impact on people's opinions of multicultural ideology, ethnic tolerance, gender role ideology, and ageism. It shoulded that multicultural ideology and ethnic tolerance were positively affected but that gender role ideology and agesim were not. As an extra result the study should that because of peoples increased ethnic awareness their own self worth was increased.
'An Exploratory Study of "Fairness" in Educational Settings' is about American and Japanese students and their feelings on fairness. A study was done where Japanese and American students and teachers were interviewed or given questionnaires with situations where the participant would answer whether they felt it was fair or not and why. An example of a situation is a teacher giving a group the same grade without taking into consideration the individual effort. The study concluded that cultural values affected the individuals opinion on fairness, but also the individuals past experiences and personality may go against the cultural norm. The study wanted to point out that to be successful in a class, students and teachers must realize that there are different opinions on what is fair and that they must be aware of it and collectively agree what the standards will be. It's kind of like what we discussed in class, where I may think the definition of a word is this and you think it is that. We must come to an agreement of the definition or we won't be able to communicate very well.
Arthur Smith here! I read "Politeness in Intercultural Email Communication: Australian and Korean Perspectives." Its from Margaret Murphy and Mike Levy. It displayed the results of a study involving 138 academic personnel (116 Australians, 16 Koreans) to find out the politeness perceptions of Australian and Korean academics in their intercultural email communications as part of their work environments. The article explains that people from different cultural backgrounds have different expectations in their email communication. For example, On the Korean side, nearly one half of all the Korean participants felt that the emails they received from overseas were impolite. On the Australian side, 72.5% of the Australian participants did NOT have a problem with politeness. It concludes that we must be wise and careful when choosing the level of formality, directness and length if intercultural communication is to be effective. It was a rather informative article if you ask me.
I read "Rules and Regulations" it discusses the fact that the words Language and Culture are often used interchangeably. It also notes in the article, the many different Constitutive and Regulative rules that we uphold in our different cultures. Some of the article was pretty wordy..but generally it was pretty interesting. Some of the material discussed that we should avoid breaking any Constituive Rule "at all costs"...so these are the rules in our society that include "taboo". The Regulative rules in our society should not be broken "if at all possible", the author points out. The author also determines that culture-learning is based on an induvidual level and therefore shuold result in an Intercultural Dialogue resulting in increased familiarity between cultures.
An Explorotory study of "Fairness" in Educational setting issue on who decides whats fair for one and not fair for another. The surveys that were taken shows just how many students are diversed in their thinking. I too can agree and disagree with the teacher and students. I feel that there should be some set guidelines in place for any cultural student. when you go to other countries the cultural differences are always going to be there. We as a society must find ways to balance out what is needed to help the overall people. Sitting inany classroom, whether Japanese or American if language, communication, or misinterpreting what is being said and done is not understood everyone loses the student and the teacher. We are surrounded by diffenences, find ways as a teacher up front tha includes all students. Modify if need to, but do it in a way that helps all students not just certain ones. fairness is something that will always be in limbo and looked at.
I read "Values, Cultural Identity and Communication: A Perspective From Philosophy of Language" by Halvor Nordby of the University College of Lillehammer & University of Oslo, Norway. This article explained how values and culture are entertwined and the fact that any person, (i.e. a public speaker) who does not respect or take into consideration cultural values is likewise disrespecting that culture as a whole. A speaker who is unconcerned about or does not acknowledge the importance of differing values or beliefs is not respecting aspects of cultures or beliefs that may be different from their own. In order to effectively communicate with large groups of people, we must first acknowledge the inherint differences in these groups and learn to understand and respect these groups.
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I read "Changing intercultural attitudes over time." In this article, a study of changes in peoples cultural acceptance was examined. This study was done at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal and involved two groups: a control group; that took a musical expression course and a test group; that took a cultural diversity group. The study proved that taking a cultural diversity course could have a positive impact on people's opinions of multicultural ideology, ethnic tolerance, gender role ideology, and ageism. It shoulded that multicultural ideology and ethnic tolerance were positively affected but that gender role ideology and agesim were not. As an extra result the study should that because of peoples increased ethnic awareness their own self worth was increased.
'An Exploratory Study of "Fairness"
in Educational Settings' is about American and Japanese students and their feelings on fairness. A study was done where Japanese and American students and teachers were interviewed or given questionnaires with situations where the participant would answer whether they felt it was fair or not and why. An example of a situation is a teacher giving a group the same grade without taking into consideration the individual effort. The study concluded that cultural values affected the individuals opinion on fairness, but also the individuals past experiences and personality may go against the cultural norm. The study wanted to point out that to be successful in a class, students and teachers must realize that there are different opinions on what is fair and that they must be aware of it and collectively agree what the standards will be. It's kind of like what we discussed in class, where I may think the definition of a word is this and you think it is that. We must come to an agreement of the definition or we won't be able to communicate very well.
Arthur Smith here! I read "Politeness in Intercultural Email Communication: Australian and Korean Perspectives." Its from Margaret Murphy and Mike Levy. It displayed the results of a study involving 138 academic personnel (116 Australians, 16 Koreans) to find out the politeness perceptions of Australian and Korean academics in their intercultural email communications as part of their work environments. The article explains that people from different cultural backgrounds have different expectations in their email communication. For example, On the Korean side, nearly one half of all the Korean participants felt that the emails they received from overseas were impolite. On the Australian side, 72.5% of the Australian participants did NOT have a problem with politeness. It concludes that we must be wise and careful when choosing the level of formality, directness and length if intercultural communication is to be effective. It was a rather informative article if you ask me.
I read "Rules and Regulations" it discusses the fact that the words Language and Culture are often used interchangeably. It also notes in the article, the many different Constitutive and Regulative rules that we uphold in our different cultures. Some of the article was pretty wordy..but generally it was pretty interesting. Some of the material discussed that we should avoid breaking any Constituive Rule "at all costs"...so these are the rules in our society that include "taboo". The Regulative rules in our society should not be broken "if at all possible", the author points out. The author also determines that culture-learning is based on an induvidual level and therefore shuold result in an Intercultural Dialogue resulting in increased familiarity between cultures.
An Explorotory study of "Fairness" in Educational setting issue on who decides whats fair for one and not fair for another. The surveys that were taken shows just how many students are diversed in their thinking. I too can agree and disagree with the teacher and students. I feel that there should be some set guidelines in place for any cultural student. when you go to other countries the cultural differences are always going to be there. We as a society must find ways to balance out what is needed to help the overall people. Sitting inany classroom, whether Japanese or American if language, communication, or misinterpreting what is being said and done is not understood everyone loses the student and the teacher. We are surrounded by diffenences, find ways as a teacher up front tha includes all students. Modify if need to, but do it in a way that helps all students not just certain ones. fairness is something that will always be in limbo and looked at.
I read "Values, Cultural Identity and Communication: A Perspective From Philosophy of Language" by Halvor Nordby of the University College of Lillehammer & University of Oslo, Norway. This article explained how values and culture are entertwined and the fact that any person, (i.e. a public speaker) who does not respect or take into consideration cultural values is likewise disrespecting that culture as a whole. A speaker who is unconcerned about or does not acknowledge the importance of differing values or beliefs is not respecting aspects of cultures or beliefs that may be different from their own. In order to effectively communicate with large groups of people, we must first acknowledge the inherint differences in these groups and learn to understand and respect these groups.
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