Week 10: Question 1

[eason A2954]

How is the development of intercultural relationships different from that of intracultural relationships?

[vincent ge]

To understand what's the difference between intercultural communication and intracultural communication, we need to understand the definition of intracultural communication at first. Intracultural communication is the communication between two people with the same culture. For example, two Chinese people is talking about the chinese history. Intercultural communication is about the communication between two people from different culture. For example, Chinese people and American people are talking about the the history of Chinese and American.

A2383 vincent

[Van Le]

To develop intercultural relationships, people need to have high adaption. First, they have to learn about other cultures, see the differences between others and their cultures. However, the learning is not always the same as reality, they also have to communicate and interact with others to know clearly. The differences usually cause cultural shock. Then, they will reach a stage to consider if they can adapt that culture or not to develop more relationship or don’t.

 

The development of intracultural relationships is between 2 people from the same culture, but it doesn’t make it easier. They can skip the learning culture stage. However, they still need to adapt each other because the same culture can be different under the different views of people.

 

Chris – A 3072

[zan72h]

For me, I think the intercultural relationships develop faster than the intracultural relationships. As more and more people learn different countries' cultures, people are trying to get close with foreigners so that they can learn different cultures. And they can learn a lot of basical cultures and habbits. The relationships develop very fast. But for the intracultural relationship, it develops slowly because it developed a long time already. For example, you already stay with your friends or relatives a long time, you knew them very deeply and clearly, do you want to know more about them or develop the relationships more with those people that you stay with for whole of life? Or, even you will meet many new friends or your future lover, all of you have many similar aspects, you won't spend much time on them for just understand what they eat normally,right?

 

 

Annie

A2866

[a3001gavin]

         I think that the development of intercultural relationships is very different with intracultural relationships. Because I think people can receive different information or know something is very different between intercultural and intracultural. For example, KFC is a famous fast restaurant of America. In China, people can buy many different hamburgers, fried chicken, French fires and rice, so Chinese people will think that Chinese KFC is traditional American fast food culture. But in America, people can buy fried chicken, French fires and less hamburgers, and can’t buy any rice here. Because KFC base on different market’ customer sell different food. And Chinese people of in China will make a false impression about American fast food culture, but Chinese people of in America will know the different. So, I think the reason of the different intercultural relationships and intracultural relationships is that people receive many different information about other countries and cultures.       

ID a3001     Gavin

[a3000faye]

        I think development of intercultural relationships is important, but intercultural relationships is also important.  Along with the international communication is more and more closely，we need realize the other countries culture, it will lead us to learn more about the different countries communication. For instance, My hometown is beef noodles, the world famous，In the north of China, every people appetite is very big, so a large bowl and everyone is very can eat spicy, so it was very hot，The shop is small and crowded .In the United States also have lanzhou beef noodle soup. Last week I and friends to eat, I found a small bowl and very light. The surprise with a fork to eat noodles. The shop is very big . So I think development of intercultural relationships is important, but intercultural relationships is also important.

ID  A3000     Faye

[zihan wang(Handy)]

Different places have different cultures. Why? Because people always have similar ways of thinking in a certain area, and when people communicate everyday, learn everyday, people will have some certain of thinking ways, and there ways are becoming the symbols of culture. When people have the same culture communicate, we can call it as intracultural relationships. In the past, most of us liked to make these kinds of relationships, because when people communicate with someone who we are familiar, we alway can feel intimate, and we are more free. When we talk with someone who is not very familiar, we always can feel nervous. When we grop up, we know that we have to communicate with different people, even some people are foreigners. So, we have some chances to make intercultural relationships. Intercultural relationships are very different from the intacultural ralationship, they always need more respect and understand.

[7681zhu]

Their main conclusion is that ""The intercultural couple seems to have an added difficulty because of the cultural difference between the marriage partners" . That is, intercultural couples have more external problems (e.g. family, culture) than intracultural couples. However, this study is a self-report. Just as in the studies above, we do not know if these are the real problems or are perceived problems. G, M, & S bring up in thier lit review the notion of the Romeo & Juliet Effect, in which couples who are persecuted tend to grow stronger. I would extend this to say there may be a tendency in intercultural/interethnic couples to want to blame difficulties on external factors (even if the differences are personal)--this false attribution might lead couples to be blind to--and have difficulty resolving--real issues.

 

Xiao Zhu

  A2760

[xhuang0802]

The developments of inter- and intracultural relationships have so many things in comment. It depends a lot on personal concept. People who are out going will find it is interested to learn about other cultures and can develop very good intercultural relationships. However, with those who are so ethnicalism, they are not able to learn or adapt differences of culture, and cannot develop any intercultural relationship. For intracultural relationships’ developments, people may find it easier to communicate with someone who has so many things in comment and the relationship can be developed faster. Meanwhile, there are some not interested in intracultural relationship and just want to learn the new things, that’s why they tend to make friends with people from other cultures.

[Julia Tian (A2854)]

Intercultural relationships are that are formed between individuals from different cultures. For example, there are two people, coming from two different places, differences in age, physical ability, gender, ethnicity, class, religion, race, or nationality. In intercultural relationships, people always learn or get the information from the unfamiliar cultures and languages. However, intracultural relationships are people coming from the same place and move to another place, at meantime, they still retain their own cultures. For instance, a lot of Asian immigrations in U.S. still keep their own cultures, such as food, spring festival (the Chinese New Year).