week 7：question 2

[tiffanyyuan24]

2. what is the importance of cultural spaces to intercultural communication?

[zan72h]

We define cultural space as the particular configuration of the communication (discourse) that constructs meanings of various places. This may seem like an unwieldy definition, but it underscores the complexity of cultural spaces. A cultural space is not simply a particular location
that has culturally constructed meanings. It can also be a metaphorical place from which we communicate. We can speak from a number of social locations, marked on the “map of society,” that give added meaning to our communication. Thus, we may speak as parents, children, colleagues, siblings, customers,Nebraskans, and a myriad of other “places.” All of these are cultural spaces. So, the cultural space always provides the international communications and also helps to know more about the international culture.

 

Such, for many foreigners, the california is a cultural space to start a lot of communications. It is a conditional fact to the international communications.

 

Annie

A2866

[xhuang0802]

I would like to consider this question as what's the importance of the different part among each culture except for the same part. I transform like this is just because the definition of the cultural spaces which I demonstrate this as differences among each culture. From my perspective, learning the differences among culture and distinguishing their negative way are the first step which people always don't want to do it because they can't find their niches in this neighborhood and they will be discriminated in this situation. After moving forward, perceiving our disadvantage is also essential. And we extract the difference part of the negative way among different culture. The last but not the least, combining and decreasing the spaces among this culture but not the unique attribute of the culture is also critical. 

[Van Le]

I don't really understand the meaning of cultural spaces. I think it belongs to geographic, a specific area, in which the culture develops. It is important because different areas have different conditions for developing. Therefor, it can be said that cultural spaces determine development orientation of cultures.

Chris - A 3072

[a3000faye]

           I think that cultural spaces can be created by many different aspects, varying from personal characteristics to life experiences. They’re something each person perceives individually and are not always a tangible environment. For each person, the many cultural spaces which they belong to can help them form their personal identity and find their place within each of those cultures. These spaces should also be the places in which you can feel comfortable being yourself and communicating with others freely. For example, we are in a same university, we are come from different countries, and we can take communication equal for each other.

ID a3000      Faye

[7681zhu]

Cultural spaces influence how we think about ourselves and others. One of the earliest cultural spaces we experiences is our home. As noted previously, nonverbal communication often involves issues of status. The home is no exception.

Even if our home does not reflect the social class to which we aspire, it may be a place of identification. We often model our own lives on the patterns from our childhood homes. Although this is not always the case, the home can be a place of safety and security.

 

A2760

Xiao Zhu

[eason A2954]

When you say cultural space, first coming to my mind is home. Home is the first place which you learn your culture and make what you are. It is the most important cultural place because how you communicate with others culture just like how your family communicates with others culture.  Then I will think the neighbors. Neighbors give you the chance to communicate with different people. If they all are the same racial as you, you won’t have chance to communicate with different cultural people, and you won’t know how to communicate with different cultural people. Finally, I will think about regionalism. This time we will think about where he/she comes from instead of racial. That change how we identify a person and change the relationship between interface and culture. These three different cultural space decide how you are and how you are thought by others and lead to how you communicate.

[a3001gavin]

           In my opinion, cultural spaces are important that cultural spaces are made by different people, different experience, different language and different culture. And we can think about ourselves and others by cultural spaces. For example, I can think my cultural space is friendly, and I have many different friends in my country, and I can make many friends in America, so, I can take communication more better and more whims.

ID a3001    Gavin

[zihan wang(Handy)]

I think the intercultural communication depends on our individuals, which means we need to communication with others, and these others come from different regions and conutries. They grow up in a certain cultural spaces, which like homes, neighborhoods, schooles, and so on. All of these certain cultural spaces influence our lives,behaviors, thinking ways, values, ideology, and so on, which means we are different, and we all have different backgrounds. As a consequence, we come from different places ,and communicate together, and then we combine a new cultural space. Anyway, cultural spaces are playing a big role in our communication society.

[dechaoqi]

Of coures it is very important,appropriate dictance always things better. From the social science perspective, the cultural spaces to intercultural communication is shaped by the people who from different culture. cultral spaces should be the area that people who from another cultrue could not always keep up, the area which is full of their own costem.

justin a2872

[chaonan liu]

A cultural space is not simply a particular loca- tion that has culturally constructed meanings. It can also be a metaphorical place from which we communicate. We can speak from a number of social locations, marked on the “map of society,” that give added meaning to our communica- tion. Thus, we may speak as parents, children, colleagues, siblings, customers, Nebraskans, and a myriad of other “places.” All of these are cultural spaces. We all negotiate various rela- tionships to the cultural meanings attached to the particular places or spaces we inhabit. 

Chaonan Liu

A2800   

[Julia Tian (A2854)]

Culture space means the particular configuration of the communication (discourse) that constructs meanings of various places. Every region has its own history and backgrounds. Our culture may influence or form by our history and backgrounds.  In other words, our culture may construct by the place where we come form. Culture space helps us to understand or image ourselves and others. In the book, it said, culture space marked on the “map of society”.