Communication is a process where information is encoded and sent off by the sender of said information to the receiver. The receiver would then decode the information and provide sufficient feedback to the sender. For any kind of communication to be successful, it is essential that the receiver attaches the same meaning to the message that was intended by the sender.
I grew up in the United Kingdom with my religion being Islam. At the time, Islam was not a widely spread religion and meeting people of the same faith, was a challenge. That being said, I was the only person of my faith in the entire pre-school that I attended. Looking, speaking and believing in something other than what was considered the norm to the vast majority of those students, exposed me to ethnocentrism at a very young age. I would get bullied because of my curly hair, colour and my accent. This led me to feel that if I didn’t change my appearance and the way I spoke, I would never be accepted by my peers. So, I started paying close attention to the way people around me spoke and the way they put their thoughts on paper. Education in the United Kingdom was of a much higher calibre, forcing me to learn how things were done in that culture very quickly.
During my primary school years I struggled with myself as an individual in yet another different environment. Using my intrapersonal communication I tried to process what I saw and understood from the environment surrounding myself by sending explanations