This thesis entitled, “Popular culture and Cultural Diversity using Developmental Method of Intercultural Sensitivity” sought to answer the following questions: What is extent students popular in terms fashion, food, language, music, social media? 2. level undertaking cultural diversity Ethnocentric stage as denial, defense minimization? Ethnorelative acceptance, adaptation integration? 3. Is t...

Objectives To explore patients' preferences and experiences regarding intercultural communication which could influence the development of intercultural patient-centred communication training. Methods This qualitative study is based on interviews with non-native patients. Thirty non-native patients were interviewed between September and December 2015 about their preferences and experiences re...

Greeting behaviors are important tools for establishing and maintaining social relationships. Greeting expressions are abundant in English and Chinese. One major difference of greetings in English and Chinese lies in the content. They are influenced by the orientations of interpersonal relationships which in turn are underpinned by value orientations. Increasing awareness of intercultural diffe...

Romantic relationships are situated within broader cultural and family contexts, and this may be particularly salient to those in intergroup relationships. This study examined variations in young adults’ experiences with intercultural romantic relationships by ethnicity and immigrant generation. A sample of ethnically diverse young adults (N 1⁄4 628; Asian, Latino, and European background) repo...

This position paper presents the efforts we have undertaken to study the impact of intercultural factors on global software development projects. A bottom-up approach looks at the effect of individual intercultural factors on software practices, while a top-down approach strives to identify positive or negative organizational and behavioral patterns.

In this paper we summarize our first research results in the field of Cross Culture user authentication. We will investigate intercultural aspects of biometrics, both of technical and legal nature. Besides biometric based user authentication, Human-to-Computer interfaces are an important part of our work. We present a methodology for intercultural and multimodal data recording and testing of di...

Students seldom think about language unless they are instructed to do so or are made to do so during learning activities. To arouse students’ awareness while learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), this study formed a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community to engage teachers and students from different domains and countries in intercultural communication. Participating...

The results do not confirm the influence of type secondary education completed on intercultural sensitivity, world music preferences or for visual artwork from different cultures. Neither was participants’ year study their level sensitivity confirmed, but we did that older students show greater and cultures when compared to younger students. Furthermore, confirmed a connection between one hand,...

El objetivo principal de esta investigación empírica es identificar fortalezas y aspectos a trabajar para atender cuidar la diversidad en las aulas desde el punto vista sensibilización intercultural. Para ello, tras realizar una revisión del marco legal cuanto los programas atención diversidad, se ha recogido información mediante herramienta Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (Escala Sensibilidad ...