scholarly journals Intercultural communication from the perspective of individualist and collectivist cultures

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Stela Spinu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Collectivist Cultures ◽  
The Way

The process of globalization, which initially dominated only the economic sphere, subsequently led to profound socio-political and cultural transformations, influencing interethnic and inter-confessional relations in multicultural and multilingual environments. In the context of the new socio-political and cultural realities, the need to raise awareness of the importance of intercultural communication is evident. Intercultural communication contributes to overcoming the negative aspects of individualism and collectivism, changes the human perception of traditional values, causes changes in the way people think and behave.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI ANTARBUDAYA DALAM MASYARAKAT MULTIKULTUR (Studi Kasus pada Karyawan Warga Negara Jepang dan Indonesia di PT. Tokyu Land Indonesia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Anita Febiyana ◽  
Ade Tuti Turistiati
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Japanese Employees

The purpose of this study was to analyze intercultural communication between Japanese and Indonesian employees at PT. Tokyu Land Indonesia. This research was also to analyze barriers which occurred in intercultural communication between them, and how to overcome these barriers. The method used in this study was a qualitative research method with a case study approach. Data collection was carried out by using an in-depth interview with 3 Japanese and 3 Indonesian employees, observation, and relevant previous research articles, and research-related documents. This research used the intercultural communication model of William B. Gudykunst and Young Yun Kim, intercultural communication concepts from Edward T. Hall, such as proxemics (the concept of distance), chronemics (the concept of time), high context and low context communication, individualism and collectivism, stereotypes. The results of the study showed that intercultural communication between Japanese and Indonesian employees at PT. Tokyu Land Indonesia is relatively good. Obstacles that occurred in intercultural communication are due to problems of differences and understanding of language, habits, respect for time (Japanese monochronic while Indonesia is polychronic), and the existence of stereotypes from each nation. To overcome these obstacles, they have to learn more about Japanese culture for Indonesian employees, and Indonesian culture for Japanese employees, openness to confirm understanding of the message delivered, mutual respect, and forgiveness each other if a misunderstanding occurs.

scholarly journals Education for tolerance in the context of globalization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stela Spinu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Way Of Thinking

The globalization process, which originally dominated only the economic sphere, subsequently led to profound social, political and cultural transformations, having a significant impact on culture and identity. In this context, tolerance is becoming a fundamental source of the peaceful coexistence of multi-ethnic and multicultural societies, facilitating cooperation and avoiding confrontations/ conflicts of values and norms. Education for tolerance has become an effective means of preventing intolerance, propagating an indulgent and constructive way of thinking, expressed by respecting the norms of social coexistence and tolerant behavior.

scholarly journals Individualism as a Cultural Syndrome in Recent American Cinema

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Nina A Tsyrkun
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Survival Condition ◽  
The Way

The article explores the balance of the two basic cultural constructs - individualism and collectivism - and the way it is represented in the American cinema of 2015-2016 as exemplified by a number of films set in the past, present and future. The author comes to the conclusion that in the face of a global peril the idea of individual moral responsibility inevitably leads to the role of collectivism as the essential survival condition.

scholarly journals A Judge at the Crossroads of Cultures: Shi Tianlin

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1137-1151
Author(s):  
Florence Hodous
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Values ◽  
The Law ◽  
Mongol Empire ◽  
The Prestige ◽  
The Way

Abstract Shi Tianlin is one of only two known officials who was appointed to act as judge both in the West and the East of the Mongol Empire, during the period of the united empire when officials were often appointed cross-regionally. Coming from near today’s Beijing, he came to prominence for his knowledge of languages, and was granted a Mongol name. He was a judge in a Western campaign, probably that of Batu against the Qipchaqs and Russians. Later, he was sent by Möngke Khan to Qaidu in Central Asia, and detained there for 28 years, before returning to Yuan China. Despite his long absence from China and though his activity as judge was very short (he declined to be re-appointed as judge when he arrived back in China), the prestige of the appointment stuck, and his son and grandson were both judges in China. The shendaobei, or Spirit-Way Inscription, of Shi Tianlin is particularly interesting for the way in which it explains Mongol concepts in Chinese terms. One of these is the jasagh (held to be the law code of Chinggis Khan), which is equated with Chinese falü (statute or law code). Rather than explaining its contents however, the inscription talks about the importance of following “the jasagh of Confucius”, namely the Lunyu or Analects of Confucius. The inscription – and presumably Shi Tianlin during his lifetime – thus uses a widely-known Mongol concept to promote Chinese values, showing the complexities of intercultural communication and exchange during the Mongol era.

Queer Intercultural Communication: Sexuality and Intercultural Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taisha McMickens ◽  
Miranda Dottie Olzman ◽  
Bernadette Marie Calafell
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Power Functions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Way

Queer intercultural communication is the study of sexuality in intercultural communication. It is a critical, interdisciplinary field that explores identity (i.e., race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and class) across political, historical, transnational, and social spheres. Queer intercultural communication is grounded in using an intersectional lens and embodiment, and in understanding the way power functions both systemically and individually. Historically, intercultural communication has lagged in including intersectional works that center on queer and transgender voices, theorizings, and methodologies. Queer intercultural communication has worked to expand the voices that are being centered as a way to theorize about potential and hope. As this work continues, scholarship on sexualities must remain open to broadening discourse, theory, and methodologies that are inclusive of multiple stories that evoke queer possibilities.

Things Heard in the Past, Material for Future Use: A Study of Song (960-1279) biji Prefaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-53
Author(s):  
Ellen Zhang Cong
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
Social Scenes ◽  
The Way

Through an analysis of the narrative and rhetoric of dozens of Songbijiprefaces, this study illustrates the way in which casual conversation was represented and transformed into writing, and howbijiwriters articulated the utility and consumption of their work. This study highlights the increasing importance of oral instruction and personal experience as legitimate modes of elite communication. The growing visibility of informal social scenes inbijiworks and their celebration of those who participated in and contributed to entertaining activities serve as strong evidence of a changing elite self-identification that characterized the major social and cultural transformations in the Song period.

Internal e-mail communication in the workplace: Is there an “East-West divide”?

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Ly
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Role Enactment ◽  
Internal Work ◽  
Business Units ◽  
E Mail ◽  
East West ◽  
The Way

AbstractWesterners are often depicted in intercultural communication literature as direct and Asians indirect when they communicate. If their communication styles are so different, however, how can they understand each other and collaborate in the workplace? The present article looks at internal e-mail communication in the workplace. More specifically, the aim of this article is twofold: first, to analyze the way Western employees formulate three different speech acts (request, criticism, and disagreement) when writing internal work e-mails to their Asian colleagues, and second, to examine the way these e-mails are perceived by the Asian employees in terms of politeness, friendliness, and clarity. The data consists of 182 elicited e-mails produced by Western employees using role enactment and 33 perception questionnaires collected in different Asian business units of an international company. The procedure to analyze the elicited e-mails is inspired by the CCSARP while the questionnaires are analyzed following sociolinguistics studies. Last, the discussion of the results is anchored partly in the ongoing East-West politeness debate.

scholarly journals Traditional religious practice of Abkhazians as the way to preserve ethnos in the conditions of globalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Bella Stanislavovna Khotko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Way

This article examines the phenomenon of preservation of the traditional cult practices of Abkhazians in the current context. The key tasks of this research include studying ritualism in terms of the traditional beliefs (religion) of Abkhazians, creation of the “scenario” of ritual practice, and assessment of the relevance and role of this phenomenon in life of the modern Abkhazian ethnos. The conclusion that the cult practice manifests as a form of Abkhazians’ identity, a so-called cultural core, and allows the ethnos to preserve itself in the conditions of globalization and multiple destructive modern trends that  destructive for the ethnos.  The main results of the conducted research consists in the statement that the modern Abkhazian society marks dominance of the traditional values and beliefs (religion), against the background of which are implemented Christian or Islamic practices. Traditional religion is perpetuated, holistic, regulated by the institution of priests and the true faith of the entire Abkhazian ethnos. Reliability of the research is substantiated with the author's expedition materials, acquired as a result of expedition work in 2013-2017.

scholarly journals Response to Roundtable Comments

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-259
Author(s):  
J. Neuberger ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Simple Path ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Soviet Ideology ◽  
Ivan The Terrible ◽  
The Way

In her response, Neuberger elaborates and extends a few of her key arguments as discussed by Brandenberger, Kleiman, Petrone, Platt, and Tsivian. She focuses on questions involving Eisenstein’s exceptionality, the general reception of Ivan the Terrible, Stalin’s response to the film and its homoeroticism, and fundamental questions about Eisenstein’s interpretation of Ivan and his reign, its application to the present and to all rulers. She clarifies fundamental questions about Eisenstein’s conception of dialectics, and shows his commitment to dialectics as something more than more than binary conflict. Eisenstein not only saw all phenomena as “unities of opposites”, but contrasted the dialectical contradictory with a unitary definitive, giving us neither a simpler dualism nor a permanent state of contradiction. The categorical doesn’t cancel out the contested (or vice versa): together the categorical and the contested create another level of complexity, making it possible to see Ivan the Terrible as a film that repeatedly poses questions about power, violence, and human perception, and a film that is a radical critique of Stalinism and Soviet ideology. The author underlines, that in This Thing of Darkness she tried to show that the search for “meaning” in Eisenstein (and in my reading of Eisenstein) was no simple path toward a definitive truth, but is something like the way we experience films: seeing, hearing, intuiting, sensing, learning, feeling, wondering, learning a little more, and eventually thinking through what we have seen and experienced in order to make it meaningful for us.

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