Intercultural Communication

I chose the movie Crash. This movie is about a bunch of different stories that all tie together in one big one. This movie shows incidents that are racist, violent, and heartbreaking. It really opened my eyes to the way people talk to and treat each other in our own culture. Through intercultural communication we should communicate with other people of different cultures with respect to their culture. In this movie there is an Mexican man who has a family, he and his daughter are seen on this poster, and he is stereotyped as being a thief because of his race. Another family is from the Middle East and they are taken advantage of and stereotyped as well. This movie is a good harsh lesson that serves as a very loud wake-up call that we don;t even practice sufficient intercultural communication within our own country. I think this movie is a good lesson and I appreciate what I took from it.

What are 21st Century Skills?

The jobs that are available in today's economy are not like they were 20 years ago. There are so many more jobs available and jobs that are in high demand of workers all over the world. There a jobs like nurses, doctors, agents, as well as many others. All of the developed nations have made changes to the ways of employment, making them way more advanced and in higher demand. Another thing that influences jobs in a big way today is the amount of education you have. If someone has any type of education and high school they are more qualified to get a job than someone without more schooling. This shows that obtaining high education is very beneficial in the ling run and can aid you throughout your life in multiple ways. Computers have influenced jobs in a big way too. A lot of new jobs have been developed also in accordance to all the software capabilities that have been developed just in the past few years. There are jobs out there I have never even heard of that are new to the work force and they need qualified workers to fill them.
The way we work is very efficient in most jobs because without efficiency they would never be done correctly when they needed to be. By working with a better cultural understanding about different aspects can improve jobs so much.By learning something new about a coworker's culture can improve your work place and even provide new information for the rest of your coworkers that they did not know. Becoming enlightened about cultural awareness through work can not only improve our work life but your home life too. I think we should always go to work each day with an open mind ready to accept new ideas and information about other people's cultures that we may come across.

Cultural Lens

Cultural lenses are ways that we view our own culture as well as other cultures. We view our culture in America as strong, busy, and wonderful whereas we may view the culture of the man who made the magic teapot as poor and unsatisfactory. We go through our daily lives with our minds already made up of how we view things and we rarely change our views without much persuasion and explanation. In the second article, the write spoke of how our post 9/11 generation is terrified of other countries because we have all been told that basically f you leave America, something terrible and unforgettable will happen. And because of all the incidents that have happened in the recent years that have come to pass, most of us take heed to that warning and only travel and venture into the "safe unknown" that is usually just a few more steps past our own boring backyards. The man who made the teapot showed humility and gratitude just for that tourist's appreciation of his demonstration of a part of his culture. I understand that some scary events have happened post 9/11 but that doesn't mean we should deny ourselves the wonderful chance to explore new cultures and expand our cultural perspectives by traveling the word and experiencing news cultures for ourselves. I think traveling is beneficial in so many ways. When you experience new things you bring back those memories and then have the chance to incorporate new things into your daily life that you never would have without that new cultural experience. I can't wait to see what new cultural perspectives I bring back with me from our trip!!