Cross Cultural Contact with Americans

Intercultural CommunicationRini Anggun Pertiwi 2 chsEducation A 0902443 Chapter Report Chapter 1 cross-cultural Contact with Americans American, as it is let offed in the beginning of chapter 1, is described as the tribe who were born, raised and lives in the United State. We will find that Americans are consists of some people from different races, religions and socials. A lot of socialization, might be, live together in the same area. Before, they called it as melting pot where so some(prenominal) different culture are blending, mixing each other without unbend the culture it self.However, the term melting pot is no longer give by the American because, in fact, the culture is not blending or mixing to each other. They are stand post by side and keep their own color like mosaic. With this kind of variety, it is hard to explain who Americans are. Some different culture honor perspective about American often occur when soul from the outside of American smart set blow up to much even though they lack of information or get across with the member of American society.This kind of stereotype, for some reason, gives a yin-yang effect when someone divides the society into we and they. They will compare about what we have with something that they have. Sometimes, they becomes a negative side of the comparison because the we see them has too much differences. With such culture variation, United States is seen as a vast country. However, America still has mainstream value that will generalize American to make them exposed the same society value, it is called as Americanization.Furthermore, American has their own way to describe the value of their culture. For example, firstly, the locating towards privacy which sometimes miss interpreted by foreigners or non American. As its explained in the take for, for Americans privacy doesnt mean isolation or loneliness. They considered it as the way of respect to the individual needs. Secondly, American likes to mi nimize stead differences in their society. Without allaying the power status they make themselves equal with other. Thirdly, American focuses on progress and change.This succeeding(a) orientation mien makes them want to fulfill their future needs, their value of responsibility to the life change are essentials. As this book already figure out, cross-cultural communication with American who has various ethnic groups and culture from different ancestor will shows the differences between cultural behavior and individual behavior of them. Reference Levine, D. R. , & Adelman, M. B. (1993). Beyond Language cross-cultural Communication. New Jersey Prentice-Hall Regents.