List six barriers to intercultural communication and provide an example of each ...

Answer to #1

Six barriers to intercultural communication are:
 Stereotypes: North Americans are sometimes viewed as overly friendly, blunt, and childlike.
 Interpretation of time: Many Latin Americans believe that important things take more time than unimportant things.
 Personal space requirements: Arab business people stand very close to each other compared to U.S. business people.
 Body language: The symbol for okay in the U.S. means zero in France and a vulgarity in Brazil.
 Translation limitations: The Japanese concept of indebtedness has no direct English equivalent.
 Lack of language training: Many non-Hispanics do not speak Spanish in areas of the U.S. with a high Hispanic population.

Answer to #2

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Answer to #4

People communicate to inform, persuade, or to entertain using a common system of symbols, signs, and behavior. The sender selects and organizes a message in such a way that the message received is as close as possible to the message sent. Knowing the receiver's educational level, culture, and experiences come into play when transmitting a message. The receiver is then involved in listening carefully, without distractions, to interpret the message so that it has meaning to him or her. Both the sender and the receiver have equal responsibility to be effective in encoding and decoding the message.