Cross cultural understanding

Aan pranata (17018106)

English education program

Faculty of language and art

Padang state university

2019
 Conversation structure differs from indonesian actually every culture and language has
different way of doing conversation.

For example in different language around the world:

“good morning, have you eaten ?

“assalamualaikum, where are you ginghere are you going,”

“gidday” are greetings.

In fact everypne feels that their own culture and way they speak is normal and good , that the other
culture and ways to speak are weird.

Culture what, when, where, why, who.

Human needs are the same world over. People need food, water, protection from
environtment, relationship and hygie. However , how these need are met is different in every
culture for example, all human needs to eat.

However what , when, where, why, and who aare different in every culture, there are many
different ways to eat , your culture determine how you eat.

There are many different example and others.

Now lets have the example more relevant to cross-cultural communication , all humans feel need to
the communicate to give their and give the information, but the “what” when, where, why, how,
and whom are unique to every culture.

Lets think about how you ask question in your culture.

- “to whom can you ask question younger people , older, pers, strangers, people of opposite
gender, parents, grand father ,siblings ,employess, employeer,and teacher?
- “in your culture “what question can you ask some people but not other people about in your
culture? (diforce,exam result, footbal scores,age, borrowing money)
- “what is it considered appropriate to ask questions-before/during/after class,while someone
else is talking, on the telephone, while someone is driving ,while someone is watching
television ,reading? Can you think of the other examples?
- “where can you ask question- in the street, on the bus, on the stairs,in the seminars ,ina
public restaurant/bathroom, in the classroom,ath the home, can you think of more the
example?
- “how do you ask question – what vocabulary , grammar, intonation pitch , gestures, and
loudess are used with different groups of people.
Chapter 3- communiocation theory.

How ommuniocation works.

There are many models of communication. The followingsimple model show five steps involving in
getting an idea fromyour example in your brain to the person to whom youre speaking or writing.

1.speaker. you ,the speaker,have an idea that you wwant to share with someone (the receiver)

2.message. you from gesture or words and sentences in your mind.

3. media. You send your message or gestures , spoken words (conversation, phone call), writing (
letter and note), typing (book, email, newspaper, text massage), etc .

4. receiver messages. The receiver seeson the hear you message.

5. receiver. He or she then extrass the message context, noise, response.

To complete the model , we need to include three more things : the context “noise”, and the
response of the receiver.

1. Context is the situation where the conversation occurs. In the example above the context is
the situation where the communication occurs. In the example above the context is outside
a cafe on the pavement next a noisy road.
2. Noise is another important concept in cross cultural understanding (ccu)
3. Response the first is what the receiver thinks.
The second rsponse is what the waiteres bringing a burger to the customer.
So its what the receiver does or does not to do.

Understanding missunderstanding.

For example your message does not result in the response that you want.

A missunderstanding may have occured. They must have been some noise-vocabulary, grammar,
gestures, and intonation.

This can happen between speakers of the same language.