Working Across Cultures Assignment 2022

Running head: WORKING ACROSS CULTURES
Working across Cultures
Assignment 1
Cultural Reflections Journal

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Week 1: Working with cultures.......................................................................................................4
Week 2: The nature of International communication......................................................................7
Week 3: Contrasting cultural values................................................................................................9
Week 4: Culture Shock..................................................................................................................11
Week 5: Verbal and non-verbal communication...........................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................16

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Introduction
This semester, I am participating in the unit of “Working across culture”. This topic is
significant in current time because world is more linked as compared to ever been before. There
are different cultures and nationalities are meant to perform together within an organisation and
comprehending each other for achieving success. This unit would teach me regarding increasing
the awareness about other cultures and helps to make improvement in myself in terms of
efficiently perform within an organisation especially, when I will work in group.

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Week 1: Working with cultures
During week 1, I have learned about different aspects that is asked in interview for working in
across culture such as where are you from and where did you grow up, have you visited areas
outside of Australia and where, why are taking this class, would you like to live in another
nation, where and why. Another question is who am I or from Cape Town. This week was also
beneficial for me to understand 11 official languages of South Africa such as English, Afrikaans,
Ndebele, North-Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Tsonga as well as, Tswana (Parfitt,
2018). I have learned that for education projects, there is a need to develop a new master degree
in System engineering.
I find interesting points regarding six imperative of intercultural communication such as
technological, demographic, economic, peace, self-awareness, and ethical. I find interesting to
gain depth learning regarding technological imperative. In such a manner, I have observed that
communications technology brings news as well as, information to even the remote parts of the
globe (Alexander, et. al. 2016).
Throughout this week, the key thing that puzzling, unexpected and difficult for me was to work
in a team and communicate with my team members. It was observed by me there is dividing
between those that do have access through the internet and those that do not. I have pointed out
that inequality exists between two segments (Sawrikar, 2016). Before attending a week, I have a
lack of understanding regarding different aspects, but after that, I have developed my knowledge
regarding demographic imperative. Hence, it was unexpected to me that this week would help to
improve my skills and capabilities.
From my experience, I have learned that people are practicing social media for obtaining their
news; connect across the countries and borders, to interact about their message as well as, to