Cross-Cultural Communication - Reflection

Many people all around the world have experienced cross-cultural communication and most of them had problems at first days put day after day they figured out how to get along with it. Each country has different communication ways for example verbal and non-verbal communication, verbal communication such as words and voice, while non-verbal communication such as gesture, posture, facial expressions, eye contact, vocal characteristics, personal appearance and touch. I also believe the key to effective cross-cultural communication is knowledge because if the person who migrate or travel to new country read and know about the country like the culture, communication and other things he or she will avoid problems of miscommunication that faced a lot of people at first days in this new culture but the person have to be patient and forgiving, rather than hostile and aggressive, if problems develop. There are so many things that increase the number of cross-cultural communication such as business opportunities, job opportunities, exchange students and other things. The benefits of cross-cultural communication are a lot for example learning new languages know about different culture, new experience. Cross-cultural are good as long as people understand it and know how to communicate with new behavior, attitude, thought and different things.