<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>When people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds meet, they have to cope with the positive and the negative aspects of the intercultural exchange. Barriers such as anxiety, language, stereotypes, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and assumption of similarity instead of difference are the most significant ones to consider. This paper aims to discuss the main difficulties that individuals of various cultures and heritages may face during the intercultural communication process. In particular, this paper takes a closer look at the cultural differences between China and the USA, and at some of the current communication difficulties that the two countries face, caused by lack of mutual understanding, ethnocentrism, stereotypes, prejudice, language, differences of nonverbal indices, political and economic causes.</p></abstract>

When people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds meet, they have to cope with the positive and the negative aspects of the intercultural exchange. Barriers such as anxiety, language, stereotypes, prejudice, ethnocentrism, and assumption of similarity instead of difference are the most significant ones to consider. This paper aims to discuss the main difficulties that individuals of various cultures and heritages may face during the intercultural communication process. In particular, this paper takes a closer look at the cultural differences between China and the USA, and at some of the current communication difficulties that the two countries face, caused by lack of mutual understanding, ethnocentrism, stereotypes, prejudice, language, differences of nonverbal indices, political and economic causes.

Intercultural Communication Barriers. China and the USA, The Difficulties of a Dialogue

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When people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds meet, they have to cope with the positive and the negative aspects of the intercultural...

Intercultural Communication Barriers. China and the USA, The Difficulties of a Dialogue

Published Online: Jul 23, 2019

Page range: 258 - 263

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2019-0091

Keywords
intercultural communication, ethnocentrism, stereotype, prejudice, generalization

© 2019 Oana-Antonia Ilie, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Intercultural Communication Barriers. China and the USA, The Difficulties of a Dialogue

Published Online: Jul 23, 2019

Page range: 258 - 263

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2019-0091

Keywordsintercultural communication, ethnocentrism, stereotype, prejudice, generalization

© 2019 Oana-Antonia Ilie, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
intercultural communication, ethnocentrism, stereotype, prejudice, generalization