Culturally Different Characteristics Paper

Culturally Different Characteristics Paper

Culturally Different Characteristics Paper

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Question – Interview at least three to five people who bear some culturally different characteristics and provide your interpretation of the interview data with their experiences of intercultural communications/experiences/encounters with the broader population.

For international:

  1. Where did you come from?
  2. What is your native language?
  3. How long have you lived in Australia?
  4. How would you describe your English level? (Have you learned in school at your country or have you learned it in Melbourne?)
  5. Have you ever been in other Western counties, besides Australia?
  6. How long did you adapt to Australian culture?
  7. Have you ever experienced difficulties during verbal communication with local students/ citizens? (Accent, speed of talking, slang, etc?)
  8. Have you ever experienced difficulties with non-verbal communication? (Signs, gestures, body language, facial expressions, etc)?
  9. Have you noticed any Australian gestures that mean different in your culture?
  10. Which nonverbal types of communication are different for you from Australian? Please describe each: body movement, space, time, touch, appearance, the use of voice and scents).
  11. Could you remember when you have had difficulty to communicate with someone who share another cultural background? Why you found it difficult/or it was not? Which nonverbal and verbal communication this person had?

For locals:

  1. How often do you participate in international interactions?
  2. What is the most difficult part of using verbal communication with those who share different cultural background?
  3. What is the most difficult aspect of using nonverbal communication with international students?
  4. If you don’t understand someone’s verbal communication do you rely them on nonverbal? Please explain
  5. Have you ever studied overseas or had close relationships with someone who is not Australian? If so, how did it help you to understand other cultural communication?
  6. Do you have any advice for international students who suffer to communicate with locals?

Interview 1

  1. Where did you come from?

Singapore

  1. What is your native language?

English

  1. How long have you lived in Australia?

1 year 6 months

  1. How would you describe your English level? (Have you learned in school at your country or have you learned it in Melbourne?)

English is the first language I learnt as a child, I am very comfortable speaking it.

  1. Have you ever been in other Western counties, besides Australia?

I’ve been to London on holiday when I was 18 in 2014. And came to Melbourne twice on holiday in 2015 and 2016.

  1. How long did you adapt to Australian culture?

Well to be honest I still feel like I’m adapting in small ways but I felt quite comfortable within my first few months.

  1. Have you ever experienced difficulties during verbal communication with local students/ citizens? (Accent, speed of talking, slang, etc?)

Sometimes I don’t know specific slang but I manage quite well.

  1. Have you ever experienced difficulties with non-verbal communication? (Signs, gestures, body language, facial expressions, etc)?

Not that i remember, other than maybe i wasn’t so used to ho nice and friendly people are here which I liked a lot.

  1. Have you noticed any Australian gestures that mean different in your culture?

Not any that I can think of.

  1. Which nonverbal types of communication are different for you from Australian? Please describe each: body movement, space, time, touch, appearance, the use of voice and scents).

Honestly Singapore is quite westernized and I grew up surrounded by television and pop culture so nothing really throws me off.

  1. Could you remember when you have had difficulty to communicate with someone who share another cultural background? Why you found it difficult/or it was not? Which nonverbal and verbal communication this person had?

Ummm maybe when I used to work in retail in Singapore. The area was frequented by a lot of tourists so I had to communicate with quite a variety of people. I particularly has issues with Chinese tourists because I felt they had a tendency to feel very entitled to service? Like if you did not immediately read their mind to know what help they needed they got angry. Or if they spoke to you in Chinese and you told them you only know English they also would get angry. And they would show their anger physically in expression or stomping off.

Interview 2

  1. Where did you come from?

China

  1. What is your native language?

Mandarin

  1. How long have you lived in Australia?

1.5 years

  1. How would you describe your English level? (Have you learned in school at your country or have you learned it in Melbourne?)

About the IELTS 6.5

  1. Have you ever been in other Western counties, besides Australia?

Yes, Germany.

  1. How long did you adapt to Australian culture?

3 months

  1. Have you ever experienced difficulties during verbal communication with local students/ citizens? (Accent, speed of talking, slang, etc?)

Sometimes I didn’t understand what people say as they speak fast and I kind of missing out.

  1. Have you ever experienced difficulties with non-verbal communication? (Signs, gestures, body language, facial expressions, etc)?

Yes, when I lost my way and asked for an old lady, but her accent actually confused me, i could not distinct ‘d‘ and ‘t”.

  1. Have you noticed any Australian gestures that mean different in your culture?

Know few about the gestures. While the directions in driving is quite different from my country.

  1. Which nonverbal types of communication are different for you from Australian? Please describe each: body movement, space, time, touch, appearance, the use of voice and scents).

Appearance

People in Australian can wear what they want and do not need to care other’s opinions.

  1. Could you remember when you have had difficulty to communicate with someone who share another cultural background? Why you found it difficult/or it was not? Which nonverbal and verbal communication this person had?

What I remembered was once in group work, with a student who come from Spanish, and we communicated in English, but we confused each other because of the poor accent. Finally, we chose to write down what we want to express.

Interview 3

  1. I come from Shanghai, China.
  2. My native language is Chinese.
  3. I live in Melbourne Australia for almost one year.
  4. I think my English is not very fluency. But I learned English before I came to Melbourne for many years. And I think I learned a lot of English speaking skills from my friends after I came to Melbourne.
  5. Definitely. I have been to Japan, Canada, America and so on. They are all wonderful.
  6. Actually I am an easy-going girl so I adapt it at the beginning.
  7. Yes. I can’t understand some abbreviations at first like btw is by the way. But my friends explain it to me. I feel better now.
  8. Non-verbal communication is less difficult than verbal communication cause the English that I learned in China is written application. So I didn’t meet any difficulties in non-verbal communication.
  9. I haven’t. But I’ve heard that in Australia, the “V” sign with the back of the hand turned out to be an insult or a provocation. It means happiness and victory in our country.
  10. I think it’s the space and time. Emphasize the value of self in society and focus on private space were included in Australian culture. However, in my country, for example, parents sometimes cannot respect their children’s private space and time. Sometimes they will arrange everything for their children.
  11. Sometimes I can’t or integrating into the world of western people because my English is not very good and I can’t understand what they are saying and their special gestures. They like to speak briefly and I am adapting to express myself like this. Although it is a little difficult, I will continue to learn and I will communicate with them fluency one day.

Interview 4

  1. Where did you come from?

Russia

  1. What is your native language?

Russian

  1. How long have you lived in Australia?

Almost 2 years

  1. How would you describe your English level? (Have you learned in school at your country or have you learned it in Melbourne?)

I have learned it in my school from the kindergarten, basically. I think I am pretty good at it, especially, in writing but sometimes I struggle to keep conversation going with locals.

  1. Have you ever been in other Western counties, besides Australia?

Yes. I have been in London, Germany, France, China, Spain, so yeah I have travelled pretty often

  1. How long did you adapt to Australian culture?

I am still adapting to it because my culture is drastically different to Western

  1. Have you ever experienced difficulties during verbal communication with local students/ citizens? (Accent, speed of talking, slang, etc?)

Yes, speed is a main problem. Sometimes I am associating myself with a dog. I understand everything but sometimes I don’t have much vocabulary to express what I want to say. And the main problem I think in Russian so I need to re-translate first in my head and then say something translated in English.

  1. Have you ever experienced difficulties with non-verbal communication? (Signs, gestures, body language, facial expressions, etc)?

If we speak about Australians I would say no.

  1. Have you noticed any Australian gestures that mean different in your culture?

To be honest no

  1. Which nonverbal types of communication are different for you from Australian? Please describe each: body movement, space, time, touch, appearance, the use of voice and scents).

I did notice that personal space is a huge issue for westerners. They are so individualistic so they care all about themselves and they really appreciate a distance between them and you. They don’t like to be touched and behave suspicious when you attempt to make a touch contact. They are pretty vocal and loud. In terms of appearance locals do not really nervous about how do they look and I cannot even go out to throw a trash without basic makeup. And it’s not about my insecurities it just the way Russian girls want to be expressed to the world.

  1. Could you remember when you have had difficulty to communicate with someone who share another cultural background? Why you found it difficult/or it was not? Which nonverbal and verbal communication this person had?

I used to live in the homestay when I was here for the first couple of months. The lady who I lived with is local but her cultural background is Indian and Italian. She always speak really loud and sometimes I was confused: is she mad or just really happy. It was difficult to live with her because she really liked attention and wanted to eat with you, go out with you and so on. I even spent my holiday with her in Sydney because she was so existed to show me Australia. Now I live with locals too but they are Jewish and were immigrated from Ukraine. Even though they get used to western culture but they were raised as Soviet people so for me to live with them much easier because we share common culture in a way.

Interview 1

  1. How often do you participate in international interactions?

Every time in Uni but all my friends are locals

  1. What is the most difficult part of using verbal communication with those who share different cultural background?

Language, of course. The majority of Asian students, for example, have problems with communicating. But that’s totally fine, I get it. Its difficult to learn another language.

  1. What is the most difficult aspect of using nonverbal communication with international students?

I didn’t find any difficulties.

  1. If you don’t understand someone’s verbal communication do you rely them on nonverbal? Please explain

Yes! It is the easiest way to understand what person wants if you do not understand what he/she tries to say to you.

  1. Have you ever studied overseas or had close relationships with someone who is not Australian? If so, how did it help you to understand other cultural communication?

Yes, I have been in Japan. When you live somewhere else you start to notice qualities of another culture and start to appreciate them. And it is a knowledge in a way. In the future you will be aware of nonverbal codes besides your own cultural communication.

Do you have any advice for international students who suffer to communicate with locals?

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