Answer 1. Communication is the transmission of information or message from one person to another. It is one of the most vital skill of need for people in today’s modern day society where people have to convey their messages and deal with people of various cultures and backgrounds. In today’s world communication with people from other culture has become even more important because of factors like globalization due to which people from various parts of the world come together and interact. Personally, I have had a tough time communicating myself. I am an International student at my University. The place where I grew up, the language I use and the whole cultural value that I have been taught and brought up with is entirely different from what it is over here in the United States. It is not just one instance where I have had tough time communicating with Americans. It is an everyday struggle to get my messages understood by the people I am talking with.
One personal instance mostly strikes my mind when I think about having hard time with inter-personal communication. It involved me and a couple of friends from my country trying to communicate with another international student from China here at Southeastern. She was from an entirely different culture and had her own language and we were from another culture with our own language. Even though our countries are neighbors and we are from the same kind of geography, communicating with her seems so hard and feels like we are from the opposite sides of earth. We were answering about one question she asked. What she was curious was that none of us ate beef and what she wanted to know was why we did not eat beef? Beef is meat produced from cows. Nepalese consider cow a sacred animal and it holds a religious value as a God in itself. Because most people in Nepal are Hindus, eating cow meat is entirely out of the question