The document discusses cross cultural understanding and defines it as learning a foreign language while also understanding the culture it comes from to avoid miscommunication. It provides benefits of cross cultural training for participants and businesses. It also discusses advantages of learning cross cultural understanding for students, including helping communicate with people from different countries and developing intercultural skills.
The document discusses cross cultural understanding and defines it as learning a foreign language while also understanding the culture it comes from to avoid miscommunication. It provides benefits of cross cultural training for participants and businesses. It also discusses advantages of learning cross cultural understanding for students, including helping communicate with people from different countries and developing intercultural skills.
The document discusses cross cultural understanding and defines it as learning a foreign language while also understanding the culture it comes from to avoid miscommunication. It provides benefits of cross cultural training for participants and businesses. It also discusses advantages of learning cross cultural understanding for students, including helping communicate with people from different countries and developing intercultural skills.
The document discusses cross cultural understanding and defines it as learning a foreign language while also understanding the culture it comes from to avoid miscommunication. It provides benefits of cross cultural training for participants and businesses. It also discusses advantages of learning cross cultural understanding for students, including helping communicate with people from different countries and developing intercultural skills.
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CROSS CULTURE UNDERSTANDING
BY GROUP 2 DEFINITION
Cross Cultural Understanding is the learning a foreign language (not
arranging or choosing words). How to communicate with the owner of the mother tongue, because of the different expressions, we Cross Cultural cannot translate one by one or lexically, because it is very closely Understanding related to customs and culture as well as situations and conditions. Understanding Cross Culture is to understand the relationship between different countries. This means that Cross Cultural Understanding is a way to understand cultural differences in various countries so that there are no misunderstandings. - 1. Cross cultural training has many benefits to be gained by both participants and businesses. For participants in cross cultural training, the main benefits are that it helps: People Learn About Themselves, Encourage Confidence, Break Down Barriers, Build Trust, Motivate, Open Horizons, Develop Interpersonal Skills, Career Development. - 2. The benefits of learning CCU for FKIP students include : - Cross-cultural understanding plays an important role in communicating with people from different countries. Language and culture cannot be Advantages For separated. Therefore, when students learn a language, at the same time Learning CCU they must learn the culture of the country and society from which the language originates, to avoid miscommunication and misunderstanding. - From year to year, foreign cultures bring a lot of influence in Indonesia. This has more or less effect on the communication skills of FKIP students, especially students of the English Education Study Program. Living in a very global world with a culture that diverse, then language learners need to develop their language skills but also their cultural skills in order to interact with other people from various cultural backgrounds. This is called intercultural communication or cross cultural understanding. Therefore, knowledge related to the science of intercultural communication should be better. CONCEPT OF CULTURE
In culture there are concepts of identity and ethnicity which are
the result of social construction. With this social construction, certain labels or identities are created, which symbolize the origin, culture and characteristics of certain groups. The importance of this identity for an ethnic and ethnic group, because it becomes a continuity of the past and the future. Therefore, almost all cultural identities, in relation to the identity of kinship, racial, or ethnic ties, are built in contexts facing each other. Example CCU Indonesian Cultural Differences With Indonesian Cultural Differences With Foreign Culture An example is the Japanese : difference between eastern and western cultures . I will take the example of the cultural differences A sign of respect by bowing is only done between Indonesia and the United in Japan, not in Indonesia. In Japanese States : culture, bowing is called Ojigi as a sign of respect. People in Japan when doing Ojigi, the things they do are: when saying sorry, thank you, and other ceremonial or official events. In Indonesia there is also a culture, but Lifestyle - Indonesian people the appearance is different from the would be more comfortable if Javanese, usually they will bend their body with their right hand down & their kept close to relatives, especially left hand bent behind the waist. families. - Unlike the Americans, Movement by way of bending the body is they tend to be individualistic. usually done as a sign of permission when passing by an older person.