Intercultural Communication Barriers

Annotated Bibliography - Intercultural Communication Barriers
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Hinchcliff-Pelias, M., & Greer, N. S. (2004). The importance of intercultural communication in international education. International Education, 33(2), 5.
The International Education Journal provides an article based on a study about the significance of intercultural communication among students globally. The article is written by proficient professional authors, Mary Hinchcliffe and Norman Greer, who have vast knowledge in speech communication from Southern Illinois and Eastern Illinois University. The two believe that it is essential for international students to interact based on intercultural communication, but it has always proven difficult. Thus, they carried out a study to discover the contributing factors towards the intercultural interaction hesitancy among international students. Some of the elements are a negative experience of students from intercultural commination interaction with others, self-inadequacy about foreign languages, lack of interest in learning a new culture, intercultural misunderstanding and stereotyping. Indeed, it is important for educators to come up with solutions to address the issues limiting intercultural communication in their classrooms and adopt positive attitudes and behaviors that would change the situation. If all international educators adopt this approach, most barriers to intercultural communication will be eliminated. The article is significant in improving the intercultural communication interaction among international students.
Reflecting on the article, I can confirm that poor intercultural communication is majorly contributed by a lack of willingness to learn and embrace other cultures in schools. Having a friend from another cultural background, it took me a lot of time to understand how to communicate about some things, like how she eats with her fingers without using cutleries. I can remember I couldn't sit next to her during classes because I preferred hanging around people with who we share the same culture. Today I can testify that other people with diverse cultural backgrounds find it rough when attending schools that rarely recognize their culture. My friend went through hell and only came to fit in after coming to adopt most of the cultural elements of the country. In my opinion, students should be taught to accept and embrace other cultures to prevent dicrim8nation of different cultures in their midst.
Vaughn, L. M., Jacquez, F., & Bakar, R. C. (2009). Cultural health attributions, beliefs, and practices: Effects on healthcare and medical education. The Open Medical Education Journal, 2(1).
The Open Medical Education Journal provides an article with insight into the contributions of cultural attributes, practices, and beliefs on an individual's health. The authors of the article Lisa M. Vaughn, Raymond C. Baker and Farrah Jacquez, are intellectuals with vast knowledge to research and elaborate on the association between attributes and health, health-related social, cultural elements like beliefs, practice and attributes. The article stresses that there is need to incorpora...