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Cross Cultural Communication

Cross Cultural Communication. What are the goals of communication?. Discuss…. Scenarios. What is helpful? What is not? What do you observe of your reactions to this scenario? What different cultural values have been demonstrated?. Why is communicating across cultures difficult?.

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Cross Cultural Communication

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  1. Cross Cultural Communication

  2. What are the goals of communication? • Discuss…

  3. Scenarios • What is helpful? • What is not? • What do you observe of your reactions to this scenario? • What different cultural values have been demonstrated?

  4. Why is communicating across cultures difficult?

  5. 1 Corinthians 9:19-22 Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law

  6. Cont.. (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak I have become all thing to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.

  7. Finding a bridge person • Find a national (who understands westerners) or long-termer who can act a bridge between your culture and the new culture • Then ask this person questions about the new culture to ease the transition

  8. Conflict • Managing our emotions • Options • Appropriate assertiveness • Levels of conflict • Mapping conflict

  9. Missionary Love If I speak fluently in another language but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol. If I wear the national dress and understand the culture and all forms of etiquette so that I could pass as a national but have not love, I gain nothing. Love endures long hours of language study and does not envy those who stayed home. Love does not exalt its home culture, is not proud of its national superiority, does not boast about the way it is done at home, does not think evil about its new country. Love

  10. Cont… bears all criticism about its place of origin and believes the best about its new place of ministry.Love never fails. Love endures all inconveniences. But where there is only cultural anthropology, it will fail. Where there is contextualization it may lead to syncretism. Where there is linguistic it will change. For we know only part of the culture, and we only minister to part. But when Christ is reproduced in this place, then our inadequacies will be insignificant. When I was living at home, I spoke like a citizen of my own

  11. Cont.. country, understand like one, thought as one. But when I left my country I put away thesethings. Now we adapt to a new culture awkwardly, but He will live in it intimately. Now I speak a strange accent, but He will speak to the heart. And now these three remain, cultural adaptation, language study and love. But the greatest of these is love!

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