Working on Common Cross-cultural Communication Challenges

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The article Working on Common Cross-cultural Communication Challenges by DuPraw and Axner provides details of how cross-cultural communication challenges come to exist as well as how people can overcome them. The two start by detailing how people often have similar fears concerning other people. These fears include being judged, miscommunication, and patronizing or hurting others unintentionally. The inception of these fears is our cultural differences which lead to us seeing things differently and having different perspectives on certain aspects of life.
DuPraw and her colleague write that culture is the root of all communication challenges. However, in another instance, they indicate that history can be the solution to the issues we are facing as a result of our cultural differences. They note that it is only after we have explored how certain groups of people used to relate with each other before that we can find ways to instigate cross-cultural communication.
The authors make it clear that culture is central to how we see the world and how we comprehend what we see. However, being people from different cultural background means that we all have different cultural values wh...