SPC1017-Blog 1 -Group 3

 Walfrido Maulini Within these three presentations the basic idea of all three chapters surround one main concept that is in communication. In my own humble opinion I believe communication is a very important aspect of our everyday life. Communication is something that needs to be brought up in everybody's life at a very young age in order to be able to improve it and progress as time moves on. As people bring it up in their minds communication can progress and with progressing communication one can successfully be able to express themselves freely and effectively with those who surround them.  Group one kicked off the presentations by introducing us to the intercultural communication section the section opens the eyes of everyone who listen and really demonstrated that they are vast numbers of cultures and subcultures are a little subcategory in which they depend on such as sex, gender, race, and even Socioeconomic status. We are set some examples on how many misunderstanding...

  An exciting and informative start to SPC1017!! The first group that presented their topic of Intercultural Communication was Group 1! As most people who live in the United States know, cultural differences between people in a conversation or setting and hinder progress. They showed that there are many different cultures and subcultures. It can be based on several things. Such as sex and gender, race, socioeconomic Status and many more. Group 1 broke down the how some cultures may be different and how those difference can cause misunderstandings when they meet. One such difference is Individualistic cultures versus collectivist ones. These cultures differ in the way how they view personal achievement and group achievement. Persons from these groups may find difficulty in agreeing to a course of action during a group project.  Group 1 discussed many barriers to communication between cultures. One such barrier is ethnocentrism. This is the belief that your culture is better tha...