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The Importance of Intercultural Communication

Summary/Abstract: Intercultural communication includes the basic information about people transmission and communication, who belong to different cultures. Main aim of intercultural communication is to giving information and training skills to understand people from different cultures and explain ourselves to them. The main themes of intercultural communication are tolerance, understanding and dialogue. Intercultural communication thought is interesting related and how to resolve these problems communication the members from between different cultures and to have intercultural communication competence away from prejudices and stereotypes. Increasing of xenophobia and ethnic discrimination all over the world and intercultural dialogue is increasingly getting more important. Thought of intercultural communication indicates stereotypes and prejudices are the real barriers to a genuine communication among people for understanding each other and the importance of cultural differences to communication among people from different cultures. Threfore, intercultural communication should be handled as an effort increasing the level of cultural awaraness with the way of leading to thinking from local and easy to universal and complex. It is clear that people is closed to other cultures under the effects of etnocentric perceptions create difficulties to living together. All these subjects are also the subjects of the course of intercultural communication for reaching the aim of having intercultural competence with obtaining knowledge and developing skills related them. If we are not purified from prejudicies and to think with simple terms and looking to the world with a simple local framework with an ethnocentric looking style placing our local culture to the center of the world, we can not contribute to living together and peace of the world. Intercultural communication, as a result, is an important thought and also should be developed from the point of living people with differences together in a compatible format, to each other to understand, rather than stereotypes review and research-based knowledge to take forward local and not with narrow horizons, more universal nature to think. Sharing and developing this thought lead to act towards and democracy awareness to contribute the quality of people in terms of special importance to the cultural awareness and ensure the growth of human qualities.

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