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大学英语跨文化交际 Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers 黑龙江大学外语部 Quotation  What sets us against one another is not our aims—they all come to the same thing—but our methods. —Antoine de Saint-Exupery Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers Learning Objectives In this chapter, students will learn how to: 1. understand some barriers caused by emotional problems. 2. comprehend some barriers caused by attitudinal problems. 3. analyze various reasons for the persistence of ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice and racism. 4. perceive and deal with some barriers caused by translation problems. Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers Chapter Outline Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers Lead-in Case:Chinese Hospitality — Overdone Read the case and consider the questions in the right column. How do you comment on the behaviors of Hong and Joe respectively? If you were Joe, how would you respond to such situations? What suggestions would you like to give Hong on hosting a friend from another culture? Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers Text A Emotional Problems as Barriers to Intercultural Communication ▲ Pre-reading Task: Please discuss in groups whether communicating with people from another culture is a simple process. And then try to present the actual unsuccessful intercultural communication scenes to the whole class. Let your classmates analyze the exact reasons why the communication events cannot be smooth. Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers 1. Anxiety and Uncertainty Activity: Questionnaire for the Assessment of Anxiety and Uncertainty The purpose of this questionnaire is to help you assess the amount of anxiety and uncertainty you generally experience when you communicate with strangers: (Note. You can determine the amount of anxiety and uncertainty you experience when communicating with the strangers in each of the statements.) Resp