Cultural Miscommunication





Claudia Acosta
5/19/17

Cultural Miscommunication

The cultural miscommunication is the way people from different countries communicate with one another, especially when there are different languages. The communication and culture are two universes inserted in the human life.

Analogy of my different experiences

When I emigrated from Uruguay to the United States and began to have contact with people from many places around the world I was able to see the existing miscommunication.
I was with some people from a specific area from ​​Colombia, they spoke to me very seriously and seemed angry when they said things. Later I discovered that only some Colombians from a certain part of Colombia are like that, but it is normal, they are not angry.
Other people told me that the people from Uruguay and Argentina when they speak seem to be giving orders.
The people from Mexico, they used so many thousands of words so different from the ones we used in Uruguay that it seemed to me that they were speaking to me in another language. Some words I used for them was a bad word which is not for me. Also some words to me mean one thing and for the people of Mexico the same word means something totally different.
The people from Puerto Rico have a way of being so open to say and do things that I sometimes felt intimidated.
Here in the USA many customs, way of saying and doing things my different to my customs which in the beginning caused embarrassing moments because of cultural communication.

Conclusion

Communication is part of social life. As a teacher I would like to teach my students about the different cultural and the causes of miscommunication.
Communication is forged in the behavior of people. As we saw in the videos, people often only observe the appearance of another person, their behavior, the way of speaking, etc.
In such a small world we could be surprised with so many new cultures, languages, behavior, reactions to different situations that we would be in shock. We have to be open-minded, and even more so when we live in a place where we are surrounded by people from different parts of the world, accepting differences and learning from them, this is part of communication, gaining knowledge and not living in ignorance. 






Comments

  1. Beautifully written. You've made several important points about being open-minded and accepting. Understanding one another is key.

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