In McCornak’s Interpersonal Communication and You, he gives many examples of how a co-culture may adjust their communication practices to interact with the dominant culture (2015, p. 97). This includes being overly polite to a dominant culture, being more tolerant in receiving offensive comments, over-achieving to prove wrong negative stereotypes or conforming to those same stereotypes to meet expectations, mimicking the dominant culture’s behaviors, openly degrading one’s own culture, or clearly expressing one’s co-culture identity even if quietly. This range from denial to submissive conformity are all attempts to manage their differences through communication to the dominating culture. As a European descendant and a Caucasian living in my country of birth, my understanding and comfort in the dominant culture is relatively high. I have interacted with many subcultures and have lived in many different states that has given me a wider understanding of the different cultures throughout the states, but I was still surprised to learn of the necessary techniques these co-cultures use to communicate with the dominating culture. Unfortunately, I find myself accountable for being ignorant of how to communicate to certain co-cultures, and hope that with this understanding of how they will adjust their …show more content…
Monochronic time orientation holds the view that time is a valuable and limited resource. People with this orientation plan out their time carefully, and follow this schedule closely. Polychronic time orientation doesn’t consider the time of day important, and are flexible with their days. Meaningful interaction is more important than how long it takes to achieve it. Understanding different people’s time orientation is important to limiting frustration when interpersonally communication with someone of a different orientation than one’s