Surveyed people of African descent regarding relationships among African, African-American, and African-Caribbean persons, focusing on contact and friendship, travel to countries of the diaspora, cross-cultural communication, thoughts and stereotypes, and education. Most respondents had contacts with the other groups, but groups had preconceived…

To communicate effectively with people from similar and different cultures and subcultures, businesspersons must understand that the cultural frameworks in which they work include business subcultures. The values and assumptions of business subcultures affect business communication messages and should be discussed in undergraduate business…

Discusses how American public relations practitioners and scholars can incorporate intercultural communication into their work with Arab clients in the United States. Explains how several frameworks were used to develop a chart on "cultural communication preference" for Americans and Arabs, and that in Arab culture, the emphasis is on…

Discusses the assumptions underlying the training of technical translators versus technical translation, and their differing notions of quality. Addresses integrating translation and documentation, implications for training, and cross-cultural procedures. (SR)

Considers the following questions: How is tourism linked to community development? Who benefits economically? What is the impact on the environment? Does tourism promote respect for other cultures, or does it trivialize cultural differences? (SK)

Argues that in literary translation, like the case of the two African novels in translation under examination, cross-cultural communication and miscommunication problems may occur. (14 references) (Author/VWL)

Problems occur in diversity training when (1) trainers are all women or minorities; (2) sensitizing only white male managers is emphasized; (3) specific set of values is reflected; (4) it is guilt driven or deals only with awareness; (5) focus is on how something is said, not why; and (6) orientation is past/future but not present. (SK)

A Multicultural Communications model includes factors that influence human interactions and communications among correctional staff and inmates. To be competent cross-cultural, intercultural, or multicultural communicators, educators must be aware of their knowledge of out-group members. (Author/JOW)

Presents levels of cultural competence: awareness, knowledge, understanding, sensitivity, and competence. Describes ways to use the taxonomy to address multicultural issues in nursing education. (SK)

Guidelines for working with translators in training situations include meeting them beforehand, identifying their comfort level, clearing jokes, giving them copies of handouts, acknowledging their presence, trying a brief introduction in the local language, speaking slowly, and using simple sentence structure. (JOW)

Offers suggestions for international training: tone down natural assertiveness, be flexible about time, do not use group participation, expect problems with logistics, and expect the best. (JOW)

Discusses thesauri as tools for multilingual information retrieval and cross-cultural communication. Considers the need for multilingual thesauri and the importance of explicit conceptual structures, and introduces a pilot thesaurus, InfoDEFT (Information Deutsch-English-Francais Thesaurus), as a possible model for new online thesauri which are…

Describes the author's experiences directing a play translated and acted in Korean. Notes that she had to get familiar with the sound of the language spoken fluently, to see how an actor's thought is discerned when the verbal language is not understood. Concludes that so much of understanding and communication unfolds in ways other than with…

The results of works, which are parts of larger projects by cultural workers, and scholars who live in U.S. Mexico international community where Tijuana and San Diego adjoin are discussed. The works described suggest the pedestrian sphere and ideological zones of the transborder experience from a particular vantage point of the borderlands.

The cultural activities, including the performance of music and spoken word are documented. The cultural activities in the San Diego-Tijuana region that is described is emerged from rhizomatic, transnational points of contact.