Nick Stone

i am planing to do research to analyse the cultural factors/aspects of culturally diverse societies, what method i should use to analyse cultural factors?
is it necessary to use only participatory methods and is it compulsory to live with the community for certain time period to understand and analyse factors related to their culture?
thanks in advance

Is there any difference between cultural indicators and cultural factors? Is there any scale (universal) to major cultural Indicators/ cultural factors?

Dear Group Members,
In this Globalized World, Cross Cultural Interactions is very common. Definitely culture exerts strong influence on an individual. I believe that every culture, every society is unique. If we understand others, then we could enrich our knowledge as well as we could work with others at ease. I invite more discussion on society &[Read more]

One important aspect of intercultural effectiveness is this medium: very soon (if not already), a majority of intercultural communication will be digitally mediated. The English language will be used more between L2 speakers (of different L1s) in cyberspace than it will be in other contexts, for example.

Humanity and respect…

i think in todays globalised world, the concept of interculture matters a lot..when people are in touch through social media..travelling different countries for business and job and getting settled in different countries…when we can watch programmes of differet countries on TV sets…its all is amazing

Hi everyone, I am PhD-student from Kazakhstan at EUV (Germany) and intercultural theme is one of my main research interests. It is great idea to create this group: I hope to give some inputs in this topic for others as well as to get some for me 🙂 What is intercultural? What is effectiveness, especially in this context? What is… I am looking forward to[Read more]

Hi everyone,
I’m a Dutch-Canadian research student at the University of Auckland, looking into the shifts in cultural identity experienced by Korean teacher trainees.

The comments before me all look very interesting!

Hello. I am an Australian academic, and I have a special interest in cultural dimensions of health, and also culturally competent research. I look forward to being a member of this discussion group.

This group can be a platform for intercultural comparison particularly of ethnic in nature. It can document lot of ethnic wisdom too.

Hi. I am a current Graduate student in Intercultural Communications and found this group might be a great source of interesting conversations. I am working on my thesis development and it looks like I am leaning towards anti-oppressive communication practices within a child welfare context.
Cheers.

Hi Donovan,
Nice to see you here :0) be sure to include in your portfolio. I think behaviour challenges that may be faced in intercultural communication are the use of effective communication skills, cultural awareness and tolerance (understanding as well), having an open unbiased view and issues associated with linguistic concerns. All are linked to[Read more]

what are some of the behavioural challenges faced in intercultural communication?

In this globalized world inter culture communications and contacts are vital. I wish to be active part of such activities.

Thanks for your interest Ros. This is an area I have been interested in for a very long time and have finally brought it into the mainstream of my working and academic life.

The Australian academic and business communities seem to have been a bit slow in some ways to pay this area due attention but I’m hopeful that some inexorable trends are helping to[Read more]

Hi Nick and members of the Intercultural Effectiveness group,

I am a lecturer and researcher from an Australian universitiy with a strong interest in global leadership, global mobility skills, global competencies and cultural intelligence. I am very interetsed in the need to have these skills and competencies embedded in undergraduate curriculum for[Read more]