People
interact with each other on a daily basis. To interact with people you should
have reciprocal actions with each other, which will also make an influence on
yourself. Before people became dependent
on technology as a communication source, proximity was an important factor in
order to interact. Now days, due to globalization people can interact with
others who are overseas without having to meet face to face. Advances
in communication have made interaction and interrelationships among people
around the world more important. Sometimes people don’t realize how important
interaction could be when it comes to intercultural communication. The world,
in which we live today, wouldn’t be the same if people didn’t interact with
each other. It is important that people experience intercultural interactions,
because due to globalization people from different cultures have to share
physical space everyday and we have to learn how to understand each other by
finding common factors in order not to have a cultural-clash.
Today, we
had the opportunity to interact with students from North America. At first, it
was kind of difficult because of our cultural differences, especially when they
entered and heard us speaking Spanish. I could see that language was a barrier
for them in order to interact with us, but when the professor asked us to pair
up with them they noticed that it wasn’t that hard at all because we knew
English as well. It was kind of interesting, because it started with a lot of
questions that had to do with entertainment, college, and life in general. We got to discuss what do we like and don’t like about both
countries. We also exchanged information
about our experiences when treating people from other cultures. I think that we
had a lot of fun while we got to know each other better, because we got to hear
great stories about themselves and more importantly we got to hear everyone’s
standpoint about interesting topics.
I believe
that this was a perfect and fun way to think about how people of different
cultures get to interact with each other. It was very interesting how by just
asking and answering questions we got to learn so much from one another. Even
though, we have different backgrounds we got to learn that we still have some
things in common in order to not have a cultural-clash. Overall, I think that it was easy for us to talk about general things; maybe in deeper conversations it wouldn’t be as easy because
everyone has their personal standpoint, but overall it was really pleasant.
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