List six barriers to intercultural communication and provide an example of each barrier
Six barriers to intercultural communication are:
• Stereotypes: North Americans are sometimes viewed as overly friendly, blunt, and childlike.
• Interpretation of time: Many Latin Americans believe that important things take more time than unimportant things.
• Personal space requirements: Arab business people stand very close to each other compared to U.S. business people.
• Body language: The symbol for "okay" in the U.S. means "zero" in France and a vulgarity in Brazil.
• Translation limitations: The Japanese concept of "indebtedness" has no direct English equivalent.
• Ethnocentrism: Many non-Hispanics do not learn to speak even a little Spanish in areas of the U.S. with a high Hispanic population.
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