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Intercultural Communication Problems

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Intercultural communication has no problems even if people grow in different regions with it 's one personality so thinking about this issue is unneeded! Actually, there are lots of problems in intercultural communication and as a returnee myself I feel that there are lots people suffering from this. In our class we looked at three examples of people suffering from the complicated aspects within intercultural communication and I am going to explain about each problem using Ms.Laray M. Barna’s article, “Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication” Cross Cultural Etiquette-Mr baseball The first video is from the movie Mr.baseball and is a scene with five people who cause intercultural communication problems. A baseball player coming to a Japanese team from America called Jack Elliot , a Japanese coach of the team Uchiyama, the coaches parents and the coaches daughter Hiroko. In this scene the five are eating Japanese food at Uchiyama’s house and Elliot gets into trouble buy not knowing the table manners of Japan.Firstly Elliot is trying to eat soba (a meal of Japan) but does not quite understand the right manners. The problem in this part is assumption of similarities as in Japan you are supposed to raise your bowl by one hand and hold your chopsticks with the other and also, supposed to use chopsticks to eat. On the other hand in America you can eat without rasing your bowl( in Japan this is treated badly and called dog eating) and normally chopsticks would not be

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