Abstract:
This paper seeks to bring out the cultural differences and misunderstandings between different culturs. To understand the culture differences and misunderstandig, it is imortant to know first what define a culture and the characteristics of culture. Since the page numbers are limited, I picked out what i think is important for this task. Most of the data gathered in this study was collected form the book communication between cultures, and from odher articles on the internet. Today we are very globalized, we can now contact easier with different cultures even though sometimes it ay be difficult, exchangen our ideas and have a free movement has leaded to countries to become more homogeneous society, which means that residents are consideret to be quite similar with immigrants.
Introduction:
We can define culture in different ways, but the definitions that meets the needs to explain culture very good is the definition by Tirandis which is:
" Culture is set of human-made objective and subjective elements that in the past have incrased the probability of survival and resulted in satisfaction for the participants in an ecological niche, and thus became shared among those who could communicate with each other because they had a common language and they lived in the same time and place". As the book communicaton between cultures says first of all this definition highlights the essential feauters of culture, by referring to "human-made" and it makes it clear that culture is concrned with nonbiological parts of human life. Second, this definition includes what Harrison and Huntington call "subjective" which is elements of culture such as values, attitudes, belifes, orientations, and underlying assumptions prevelent amoung people in a society. In the end the defenition says the importance of the language as a symbol system which allowa people to be transmitted