Barna's text was interesting with many examples of international students.
It was easy for collage students to imagine how would 6 stumbling blocks be problem.
However, I thought each one is little similar to others, so I sometimes got confused
not to be able to distinguish each content.
The most useful part of this article for me was explanation of high anxiety.
I did not come up with the idea that emotional conditions were
so much important factor which made intercultural communication difficult.
I had never considered culture shock as a stumbling block.
In today's class (Sep. 16th), my group discussed about Stereotypes,
and the example which Kuririn said was interesting.
It was "Employers think that all ICU graduates are good at English".
I really agreed with that because almost every time I say that I go to ICU,
people say "What's that?" or "Oh, so you can speak English fluently!".
However I know I also assume and stereotype many things often.
Therefor forgiving those attitudes each other can be one of the solutions
for intercultural communication problem.
Having a stereotype is inevitable and everyone is occupied by some kinds of stereotypes. Before I entered ICU, I also had thought that the students in ICU are all good at English and studies English through classes. However after I entered ICU I realized that was wrong and that I had a prejudice to ICU. Sometimes we can not realize that we have stereotypes until we experience something.
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