Intercultural communication may come naturally for Lance, anAmerican student who is studying abroad in Israel. Communicatingfor Abe, a student from Portugal may be a bit more difficult. Abe’sculture doesn’t like to discuss personal events so when Lance seesthat Abe is quiet he isn’t exactly sure why.
Lance’s professor assigned a project on the cacao industry inAfrica, Serefina and Fallon were assigned to Lance’s group. Withoutany knowledge of African culture, Lance was anxious aboutcompleting the assignment. He thought that he knew enough to writeout his paper. Ella, Lance’s friend recently came back from Africaon a service mission trip. In a conversation, she told Lance thathe may view and mentioned that she watched this “YouTube video onChild Labor: The Dark Side of Chocolate”. Lance took Ella up on heroffer to watch the video and was surprised by what he learned. Thisis an example of:
Select One:
A. Letting go of ethnocentric beliefs
B. Interviewing individuals on Culture
C. Educating yourself on intercultural communication
D. All of the Above
