Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities

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Added on 2019-12-18

Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities

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1Similarities and Differences in Two Cultural Environment

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2Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Cultural Autobiography of Two Persons.........................................................................................3Difference between Two Cultures...................................................................................................4Similarities between Two Cultures..................................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8References........................................................................................................................................9

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3IntroductionToday, the world is getting smaller with the time as technology made people so close. Early,communication between two different cultural people was too tough due to less technologicaldependency. Communication between two or more people from different linguistic and culturalorigins is called as intercultural communication. Due to different culture, people face problems atworkplace such as language, tradition, working condition, organizational framework etc.(Sundem, 2014). This paper covers biographies of two persons that belong to different cultures.It also emphasis over how cultural difference affect workplace communication and whatsimilarities and differences the two people have. The intercultural communication is elaboratedthrough different theories presented by famous researchers.Cultural Autobiography of Two PersonsAutobiography is all about a person’s personal information in a story format where a personshares memories to others. The culture is defined as a set of interpretations that a person learnsfrom surrounding, which affect other people’s behavior largely. A person’s beliefs, values andnorms are the aspect through which one’s culture can be identified. Workplace is the placewhere different people come together to attain organizational goals and in this process they getcontacted to each other (Cooper, He and B. Levin, 2011). At the time of communication atworkplace some people face difficulties to get adjust due to belonging from different culture. Inother words, different cultured people suffer with dissimilar interpretations by others that createconflict in behavior is called intercultural communication.

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