Cross Cultural Differences in Cognition: A Study on How Culture Affects the Way We Think

What is it about?

Communication is the process of exchanging ideas, facts and figures from one person to another. The term cross cultural implies interaction with people of different cultural, ethnic, age and class backgrounds. Such communication is a form of global communication which describes how people of different culture communicate and interact with each other in different ways among themselves. Cross cultural communication is a field of study that draws various ways that we have learned to speak and gives non-verbal messages, and culture contributes to the way in which we think. As a result of such, communication is interactive in nature and is greatly influenced by our relationship with others. Different words may mean different meanings to different people. In addition to this what makes cross cultural communication really difficult is the difference in language even the same word can mean different things. Thus miscommunication is likely to happen when it involves significant cultural differences among the communicators, and this is what known as Cross Cultural difference.

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Why is it important?

This is very important as the topic is critical to our thoughts and actions. it is also very important to understand the culture of others so that we will be better able to communicate effectively.