Understanding "Intercultural Communication"

 Have you ever wonder how can a culture be seen differently from various perspectives? Do you want to explore more?

           " Intercultural communication". What would you think on this topic? Thinking… is all what we did to gain more knowledge on certain subject. However, with our thoughts only, we will not go far from our circle.

Whereby, in this blog, we will go beyond our culture in Malaysia and explore more on the diversity of existed culture. 

Throughout your journey on this blog, we will make you experience the culture yourself.

Sometimes in our daily conversation with people from a different culture would bring confusion to us. Let say, person A is from northern part of  country D and person B came from southern part. They speak with the same language but person A did not understand certain words that person B say to him. Why is this happening? This is because they might choose different choice of words and deliver it with different accent as they come from different region . The link below is about the different choice of words used between two person that speak the same language and the differences of social system in their own culture.

(British vs America : How We Do It?) 

Intercultural is not only depends on communication. It also include  attitude, appearance, action and every little aspect in your social system . As you can see on the picture above, the woman is offering a handshake while the man is bowing down instead of receiving the handshake. The video below explain on the culture of handshaking and bowing.

(Asian Culture : Handshakes and Bowing)