[DOWNLOAD] "Primacy of Personal over Cultural Attributes Demonstrating Receptiveness As a Key to Effective Cross-National Interactions/ la Primaute des Attributs Personnels Sur Les Attributs Culturels Demonstration de la Receptivite Comme un Element Cle de L'efficacite des Interactions Transnationale (Report)" by Canadian Social Science * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Primacy of Personal over Cultural Attributes Demonstrating Receptiveness As a Key to Effective Cross-National Interactions/ la Primaute des Attributs Personnels Sur Les Attributs Culturels Demonstration de la Receptivite Comme un Element Cle de L'efficacite des Interactions Transnationale (Report)
- Author : Canadian Social Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 289 KB
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Reinsch and Turner (2006) define "interpersonal communication as a process in which one person encodes or creates a series of symbols and signs while another actively (and selectively) decodes or creates a message based partially on some signs emitted by the first person" (p. 344). This preliminary research seeks to investigate what, in a multicultural setting, are "the symbols and signs emitted by the first person" that encourage a receiver to choose to decode and interact effectively with that person? Its findings suggest that, rather than being strongly influenced by the cultural, ethnic, national, or religious identity of potential interlocutors, respondents were more affected by the personal attributes they perceived in an interlocutor. Facts of cultural, national, and religious identity were rarely mentioned by my respondents as having an impact on their willingness to engage with another person. However, positively perceived personal characteristics were cited as encouraging respondents to engage in an interaction and negatively perceived characteristics as generating reluctance to interact with particular individuals. 1. STUDY