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Local and Global Communication in Multicultural Settings

The document discusses communication within multicultural settings, both locally and globally, noting that effective communication can be challenging across different cultures due to differing languages, communication styles, values and perspectives but that understanding these differences is important for multinational organizations and a increasingly diverse society. Global communication involves transmitting messages across borders and cultures via various media and technologies, which adds complexity when there are multiple recipients from different language and cultural backgrounds who may interpret or react to the message differently.

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Local and Global Communication in Multicultural Settings

The document discusses communication within multicultural settings, both locally and globally, noting that effective communication can be challenging across different cultures due to differing languages, communication styles, values and perspectives but that understanding these differences is important for multinational organizations and a increasingly diverse society. Global communication involves transmitting messages across borders and cultures via various media and technologies, which adds complexity when there are multiple recipients from different language and cultural backgrounds who may interpret or react to the message differently.

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Local and Global

Communication in
Multicultural Settings
Multiculturalism refers to
the presence of people with
several cultures in a
specific setting. It is the
co-existence of diverse
cultures, where culture
includes racial, religious,
or cultural groups and is
manifested in customary
behaviors, cultural
assumptions and values,
patterns of thinking, and
communicative styles.
The world today is characterized by ever growing
compacts resulting in communication between people
with different linguistic and cultural background.
One of the most common forms of global
communication is an email. A person in one country
types a message and clicks the send button. The
message is then encoded into packets which are sent
across the internet to the recipient. In another
country, the receiver logs in and decodes the message
by opening the email, and retrieves the message.
Global communication becomes more complicated when
there are multiple recipients from different cultures
with different languages all receiving the same
message, as well as when there are more layers added to
the channel. For example, if a world leader makes a
speech broadcast across the globe, people from one
region may rejoice at the news, while others may find
it offensive. In this case, the channel itself can
involve many different layers, as translators, news,
editors and commentators each interpret the message
differently before passing it on to the intended
audiences.
LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
It is the way on how we communicate to other. By
using our own languages and an English language, we
can make a conversation locally or globally. The
main purpose of this is to have an idea on how can
we apply what we learned from them for ourselves and
for our community. It can also be the way for our
country to have sufficient knowledge to make it more
outstanding.
Local communication means data transferred directly from the
gateway to bluz DK, without going through the Particle cloud.
Local communication can be used for a lot of tasks that don't
require the cloud.

Multicultural education refers to any form of education or


teaching that incorporates the histories, texts,
values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different
cultural backgrounds. The study of global communication is an
interdisciplinary field focusing on global communication, or
the ways that people connect, share, relate and mobilize across
geographic, political, economic, social and cultural divides.
COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES
Communicating across cultures is challenging. Each culture has
set rules that its members take for granted.
Few of us are aware of our own cultural biases because
cultural imprinting is begun at a very early age. And
while some of culture‘s knowledge, rules, beliefs, values,
phobias, and anxieties are taught explicitly, most of the
information is absorbed subconsciously.
The challenge for multinational communication has never been
greater. Worldwide business organizations have discovered that
intercultural communication is a subject importance not just
because of increased globalization, but also because their
domestic workforce is growing more and more diverse.
Intercultural communication
- is a discipline that studies communication across
different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects
communication. It describes the wide range of communication
processes and problems that naturally appear within an
organization or social context made up of individuals from
different religious, social, ethnic, and educational
backgrounds. In this sense it seeks to understand how people
from different countries and cultures act, communicate and
perceive the world around them.
CULTURES
-A culture is the system of knowledge, beliefs,
- values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that
are acquired, shared, and used by its members
during daily living.

CO- CULTURES
Within a culture as a whole are co-cultures, these
are composed of members of the same general
culture
who differ in some ethnic or sociological way.
Intercultural communication
- is a discipline that studies communication across
different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects
communication. It describes the wide range of communication
processes and problems that naturally appear within an
organization or social context made up of individuals from
different religious, social, ethnic, and educational
backgrounds. In this sense it seeks to understand how people
from different countries and cultures act, communicate and
perceive the world around them.
BARRIERS TO LOCAL
AND GLOBAL
COMMUNICATION IN
MULTICULTURAL
SETTINGS
Some of the barriers to
effective communication are
language, medium of
communication, personality
and culture. Culture became
barrier to an effective
communication when a person
has different language
bearing, and they have
different interpretation to
such words.
What is the difference between multicultural and
cross-cultural or Intercultural?
While they all might be under the same roof, they describe
entirely different rooms. The differences in the meanings have
to do with the perspectives we take when interacting with
people from other cultures.

Multicultural refers to a society that contains several


cultural or ethnic groups. People live alongside one another,
but each cultural group does not necessarily have engaging
interactions with each other. For example, in a multicultural
neighborhood people may frequent ethnic grocery stores and
restaurants without really interacting with their neighbors
from other countries.
Cross-cultural (Intercultural) refers to the
comparison of different cultures. In cross-
culturalcommunication, differences are understood
and acknowledged, and can bring about individual
change, but not collective transformations. In
cross-cultural societies, one culture is often
considered ―the norm and all other cultures are
compared or contrasted.
REFERENCE:

PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION Integrated Learning


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