Cultural Distinctions...

Many people have trouble identifying and attempting to communicate with other cultures. People tend to over look what they can do to improve their communication skills with those from different cultures. Ways you can help with communication are prepare yourself, learning their lingo and other background info, reduce ethnocentrism, don't compare what the other person is doing to what your culture thinks is right, increase mindfulness, think about if things are logical or not before you do them, and lastly recognize differences, understand the different signals of another culture and help that person understand the signals of your culture.

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Gender Roles...

Gender refers to what we think is appropriate for men and women. Unfortunately when people think of gender roles they go into a stereotype that men work and women stay home and take care of the children. This isn't always the case, lately more and more women have been getting jobs and helping provide for their family, especially in the economy that we have now most families need the extra income. With most marriages ending in divorce one of the parents is often left with the children to take care. whoever is left with the kids has to work and take care of the household whether it be the man or the women.

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Noise...

When people think of noise they usually think of physical noise, things that you can hear. If you talked to me about noise a week ago i would have thought about the physical type, but I recently learned about the other types, psychological, physiological, and sematic. I fined that the noise that most gets in the way of my communication is psychological noise, like when Im in class and I can't concentrate on what the teacher is saying because my mind is wandering on different topics. This makes it very difficult to pay attention in class and remember all the information my teachers are saying. Now that I know of all the other types of noise I'll be more aware of them and able to prevent some of them from happening so that I can concentrate on what other people may be trying to communicate to me.