Intercultural Communication Reflection Report

Individual Assignment : Reflection Report It is always interesting when come to the study of communication. “Communication is the process of interaction that displays the content meaning and relationship meaning”, (Watzlawick, Beavin & Jackson, 2011). It is a dynamic and complex interaction which indispensible in our society. It is fun in studying communication, and so does culture. “Culture stands for a set of values, beliefs, norms, customs, rules and codes that lead people to define them as a distinct group, giving them a sense of community” (Adler, 2008). Culture varies in term of anthropology and geography. On this semester, I am taking the subject of intercultural communication. The assignment required we do a research on cultural difference among Malaysians and our foreign undergraduates. Hence, I am conducting it with the help of my China friend, Jess Dong. Jess Dong

Culture is transmitted. If a culture is being practiced, it must ensure that its fundamental messages and elements must be shared and passes to younger generation. This process is so called “social inheritance”. Another trait I found in our conversation regarding time is; culture is learned. As repeated, we behave in certain way by enculturation, which means an activity to learn one’s culture. As we are Malaysian, we learn from our experience that late is usual, regardless of races but the land we stay. So, we are much tolerating on punctuality as almost everyone acts the same way. I would like to link culture and communication here. “Culture and communication are intertwined; communication is culture, culture is communication”, (Hall, 1976). Communication aids the transmitted of culture, and continues it. Furthermore, communication also helps us in learning culture. We explore and imitate certain behavior by observation and interaction. In other words, we learn a behavior through our daily