interkultural communication

Questions and Observations on Culture and the Global Village

GenerationNathan D. Horowitz, MAFachhochschule St Pölten

International Week18 November 2014

Structure of this presentation

• Questions for you

• Definitions of culture

• Culture as a lived experience: a narrative

• Questions for me, if there are any

• What is culture?


• What is intercultural communication?



• Are all cultures equal?




• Are there values that all cultures share?





• Where do your beliefs about the world come from?






• Do most people like to live around people who are like them?






• Do most people like to live around people who are like them?

• What social groups do you belong to—groups defined by nationality, religion, age, etc.?

Culture is viewed…

• as civilization


• as civilization

• as communication


• as civilization


• as a general concept


• as civilization



• in terms of intercultural communication


• as civilization




• as an arena where groups or communities interact


• as civilization





• as a dynamic construction between and among people


• as civilization





• as a dynamic construction between and among people

• in terms of biology or evolutionary psychology (Patrick R. Moran, Teaching Culture, pp. 4-5)

interkultural communication

Education

cultures equal

teaching culture

important culture

viewedas civilizationculture

general conceptculture

communities interactas

social groups

peoplein terms of biology