Intercultural Communication Case Study

Entry 1 Question 3: When I was in elementary school for an after school activity I was in Girl Scouts. It was fun and we did many things throughout the school year. One of the activities that we did was visit a nursing home during the holidays and sing songs and visit with the residents. What made it intercultural was that we were talking to experienced elders who grow up in a different time then we did and how things were different. One resident was telling me about their job she was a Sister (Catholic Nun) and at one time when she lived in the school and she and the other sisters shared a room and that in the summer it was horrible because there was no air conditioning. She was also told me about how before she became a Sister she liked

Because back then there was the saying you want something and you want it now. It also made me realize on how we grew was different and how communication styles are different and always changing just like technology and business practices. One day it seems like you just found the best business plan, but the next day you changing the business plan altogether. After this experience some things that I learned is that you have to have important and successful intercultural communication. You need to be a good listener and take the time to lean about others and their culture because it will be different from your own culture. My example was different because we were both from the same culture but we were different ages. Another thing to understand verbal and nonverbal communication as well as gestures and facial expressions. Our book mentions that there are six universal expressions which are happiness, sadness, disgust, surprise, anger and fear. For gestures you have to be careful because in your county it could mean one thing but in another country it could mean something completely

Through political, economic and historical events or systems. How has the history of immigration influence the United States? In a census that was taken in 2010 the projected that within the next 50 years there will be an increase in ethnic/racial diversity and the trend will continue (pg.6) during that time baby boomers will be retiring and more women and minority will join the workforce because of economic reasons, women’s movement, and the Civil rights movement. The other change of immigration pattern when the United States became a nation that set rules. Overtime the land became more racially and ethnically diverse. In an article I read in 2012 the foreign born had 18.6 million United States citizens and 22.1 million noncitizens. Only 13.3 million were permeant residents and the 11.3 million had not documentation. While 1.9 had a temporary visa. The article also talked about how there was a 31.2 increase during the period they did this study that immigration grow from 31.1 million to 40.8 million people. After reading this article I find it interesting that that the number wasn’t bigger than it really is with non-citizens. What are some of my thoughts on immigration? The topic of immigrants can be a complex and touchy topic I think that it can be good and bad. When you think about it most people who live in the United States are immigrants that came over from Europe. While