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Cross-Cultural Communication skills is a relatively new term, referring to the ability to recognize cultural differences and similarities when dealing with someone from another culture and ability to recognize features of own behavior which are affected by culture.

 



Archive for October, 2004

Visiting la belle province

Monday, October 25th, 2004

Yes, it seems indeed quite different than the rest of Canada. As you get off the plane you notice the cab drivers don’t wear turban. Nor do they speak English, or very little. Our driver actually was a huge black guy with broken English, but he took us to the right place; but he got upset for having to accept payment by credit card. Then further on the highway toward the city I realized the “official bilingualism” is mandatory only for the other provinces.