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### Understanding Intercultural Communication: Bridging Cultural Gaps ###

This lecture provides an overview of intercultural communication, exploring its definition and significance. Communication involves meaningful exchanges, either verbal or non-verbal, and shaped by cultural experiences. We delve into the concept of culture as the mental and behavioral frameworks that individuals use to interpret their environment. Using the iceberg analogy, we distinguish between visible surface culture and deeper, often invisible aspects like values and beliefs. As our world becomes more interconnected, effective intercultural communication becomes essential to avoid misunderstandings and enhance relationships across diverse cultures. ###

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### Understanding Intercultural Communication: Bridging Cultural Gaps ###

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  1. Lecture 1 Overview of Intercultural Communication

  2. What is Communication? • Meaningful messages between people • Verbal or Non-verbal • Conscious or Unconscious • Depends on knowledge and past experience • Easy in own culture • Challenging outside our own culture.

  3. What is Culture? • Culture is… • in your head in your talk • in your behavior deeply felt • Culture is a system of resources for understanding the world around you • Culture is the “tools” that our families and societies instill in us to get through life

  4. Time Capsule Imagine you are going to prepare a time capsule that will not be opened for 100 years. You want to show people in the next century what your culture is like. What things would you put in it?

  5. Culture is like an Iceberg • Part of an iceberg is above the water and part is below the water. • Surface culture: visible • Deep culture: invisible

  6. Artifacts Values and Beliefs Underlying Assumptions

  7. Communicating Interculturally • Greater deep differences = more chance for misunderstandings • Increased contact needs more efficient and effective communication • Shrinking world = greater importance • Opportunities to live, work, study, travel abroad • People from other cultures living in our communities

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