Globalization

The increasing economic, political, and cultural integration and interdependence of diverse cultures.

• A theorist who predicted many years ago that our world would become a global village

Has helped erased the notion of territorial boundaries between countries, gradually ending the idea of the term “nation”

Persons respectful of and engaged with people from distinctly different cultures.

Lacking understanding of cultural differences.

This affects communication.

• Interaction with individuals from different cultures.

• Concern with the process of interpreting and sharing meanings with individual from different cultures.

Interactants of different races

Communicating parties have different ethnic origins

The system of knowledge, beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that are acquired, shared and used by its members during the daily living; within a culture as a whole are co-cultures.

Comprised of members of the general culture who differ in some ethnic or sociological way from the parent culture.