Barna's Six Communication Barriers Analysis

Barna’s 6 stumbling blocks explains about the existence of the communication barriers between countries in the world and a way to stop them. There are communication barrier such as assumptions of similarity, language difference, nonverbal misinterpret, tendency to evaluate, stress, and culture shocks. Assumptions of similarities happens when people from other countries believe they are similar because they all have basic needs such as food, water, and shelter. This occurs because most people think that just because they are humans who has the basic needs, they are similar to each other. Although in the real world, different people have their own values or perspective on their beliefs or attitudes. Language difference is basically just assuming that all people who speak the same language have the same level of understanding the conversation and also understanding idioms, slangs and other words does not mean literally. For example, just asking a simple question like ‘Do you want soda?” can confuse foreigners . In the U.S., people ignore the double negatives, but in other English countries, when people say “no” it means that they want a soda, because of the double negative in the phrase.
People can misinterpret not only language, but cultures like body languages as well. Nonverbal misinterpret is when people misunderstand the body language of another country. Even little things like eye contact can get misinterpreted. These gestures do not have a formal way. Gestures are