Research into Practice: Cultural and intercultural awareness

Intercultural Awareness: Cultural and Relational Effects on Awareness Information Gathering Behavior

Awareness information, information about others’ presence and activities that allows us to determine their availability for conversation, plays an important role in workplace communication, as people often gather and act on it in the process of negotiating mutual availability. This paper presents a laboratory experiment examining how gathering awareness information is affected by the cultural b...

Cultural Identity and Intercultural Communication: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach

Macau’s unique cultural identity as a Special Administrative Region of China has been attributed to its historical blending of East and West and the confluence of the diverse origins of its people. According to definitions from the Bank of English, blending includes: “mixing and mingling”; “to look good together, harmonize”; “a mixture produced by blending.” In terms of the blending of people a...

Bias Awareness in Research Practice

Cross-Cultural or Intercultural Psychotherapy

Warren Weaver, a biological scientist, wrote that. “..... as man’s control of his environment has proceeded... he has progressively uncovered more and unifying principles which accept the ever increasing variety, but recognize and underlying unity. He has, in short, discovered the many and the one.... The diversity....a surface phenomenon. When one looks underneath and within, the universal uni...

Cultural Subjectivity in Intercultural Communication

The phenomenon of intercultural communication has been the subject of a great deal of research in the field of ESL education; however, the research has been primarily focused on the incorporation of target culture in foreign language curriculum. Starting with the current situation of cultural awareness, this paper stresses the importance of establishing cultural subjectivity so as to adopt the ...