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Intercultural Communication Part One Conceptual Foundation Communication Communication is a symbolic activity. Communication is a process involving the transmitting and interpreting of messages. (3) Communication involves the creation of meaning. (4) Communication takes place at varying levels of awareness. (5) Intention is not a necessary condition for communication. Communication Communication is a symbolic process which involves the transmitting and interpreting of messages, and the creation of meaning. It takes place at varying levels of conscious awareness, and intention is not necessary for it to take place. ---William B. Gudycunst, Communicating With Strangers Culture Culture is the deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and artifacts acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. ---Larry A. Samovar Culture is the evolving way of life of a group of persons, consisting of a shared set of practices associated with a shared set of products, based upon a shared set of perspectives on the world, and set within specific social contexts. ---Patrick R. Moran Culture Consider the following images: Culture is like an iceberg. Culture is our software. Culture is like the water a fish swims in. Culture is the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. Learning about culture and learning to do culture Intercultural Communication definition intercultural communication cross-cultural communication The term cross-cultural communication is used when referring to communication between people from different cultures. This term implies a comparison between cultures. While intercultural communication focuses more on the