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Cultural barriers
Culture is the attributes and knowledge of a specific gathering of individuals, characterized by everything from dialect, religion, cooking, social propensities, music and expressions (Peltokorpi & Clausen,2011).
As the nations develop, so does its cultural assorted qualities.
Interview
The person who was interviewed name is John King who is an individual from the United States of America, with a wife and three children.
John King shifted from the United States of America to stay in the United Kingdom due to a transfer with his job and had to move his whole family ages from 40 to 6 years old.
John King is of an American origin and has lived in America since he was born and the shift of residence has made some very drastic changes in family and his life.
The adjustment was very hard on his family as they have to adjust to new people with accents, to different words used and different food available in place of what they were use to, and the currency were big adjustments the family had went through.
According to the experience shared, there are certain interesting facts which may help an individual to relate well with others.
The cultural facts may include virtues such as courtesy which is expressed by the larger population in the United States something that John found was also the same in the United Kingdom (Ray,2014).
John used the virtue character to adopt to the new cultures in the United Kingdom.
Through the use of this John has been able to communicate effectively with others and have the convincing power to also relate with them and know about their culture.
There is no doubt that adapting to new cultures has always been quite difficult in the United States let alone move overseas and being exposed to a whole new culture right away.
Overseas mingling is not common like it is in the United States.
Therefore there are some characters which are not appreciated everywhere and may make it difficult when trying to adjust to a new culture when communication isn’t done the same as what he has learned in the past.
Cultural Experience
Looking at the comparison of the cultures it can be observed and concluded that there are indeed some cultures which are same and those which are far much different hence not practiced everywhere, and me never going through anything like this because I have lived in the same area since birth.
From the interview, I discovered that John had a different cultural from the one that I have when interacting with other people especially in terms of the way they live and communicate overseas very surface friendly, and no one really mingles unless it is setup before hand. Me personally I seem to mingle with everyone from the grocery store to the gym.
John had to adjust to the culture of the United Kingdom which took him some time to do so.
I would conclude it would be easier for one person to adjust to so many culture barriers better, than a whole family with ages ranging from 40 to 6 years old.
References
Peltokorpi, V., & Clausen, L. (2011). Linguistic and cultural barriers to intercultural communication in foreign subsidiaries. Asian Business & Management, 10(4), 509-528.
Ray, D. (2014). Overcoming cross-cultural barriers to knowledge management using social media. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 27(1), 45-55.
