Audrey Beedle - Reflection 8

Audrey Beedle

COMM 211

Reflection #8

            I have chosen to do this reflection as one of the entire course through the semester.  I can’t believe we’re only a few short weeks away from summer time!  It went by way too fast.  I can genuinely say that I learned and experienced some very beneficial things throughout the course of this semester in COMM 211.  I decided today in class that I and leaving this class with three main take-away points:

1.     Everyone can benefit from taking and learning about Intercultural Communication.

There is no age, class, gender, race, or career type that wouldn’t benefit from becoming more interculturally competent.  It can help with your job and schooling, but even more importantly than that it can help you with your day-to-day life and make yourself more comfortable in many more situations.  As well as creating and overall understanding and respect for cultural diversity.

2.     You can never learn everything there is to know about intercultural communication.

This subject is ever changing and is extremely subjective.  No two people will have the same cultural experiences, which will lead to different understandings.  Culture exists in every facet of human civilization, and can be regional, state-to-state, or even international.  And even if I just so happened to travel to every single continent, country, region, city, and neighborhood, I would still not be an expert because culture changes all the time and among individuals.

3.     Becoming more interculturally competent makes you a better person.

I mean this in all aspects of the term “better person.”  It makes you more aware of your self and you place in this big, culturally diverse world.  It unavoidably creates a sense of unity and understanding for individuals from different cultures than your own, which in turn when applied to a bigger picture could mean the difference between war and peace.  It is beneficial to everyone to become more aware of the world that we live in and the people that live on it.  Intercultural communication could be the key to world peace.