Question

How do our expectations impact our communication with those whose cultures are different from our own?

interpersonal communication

Answer 1

Culture influences our communication patterns . This is more clearly visible when we communicate with someone from a different culture .There are a number of ways it can happen . One of the ways is expectations .Expectations are a result of our pre experiences or our biases or our perceptions towards the culture . Expectations can have a negative impact on our communication with the person. As it can lead to ethnocentric practices .Our expectation can create biases . If the person does not respond to us according to our own cultural expectations then we develop prejudices. We can take examples of a english speaking culture person and native speaker . When they communicate the english speaking person develops bias or we can say prejudice because of bad english pronunciation of the native speaker . It often reflects why cultural competence and cultural relations is important while communicating to other cultures .