The Pueblo Indians have developed creative and assertive techniques for interacting with tourists that help the Pueblo cope with the pressures of tourist contact, fortify their cultural boundaries, and exercise control over potentially uncomfortable situations. Secrecy and community regulations are examined in relation to host/guest dynamics and…

The continuum of cross-cultural activity spans ignorance, education, education plus interaction, and "going native." Continuing education is the fulcrum balancing the prevailing and contradictory cultural forces of spreading democracy and global competitiveness. (SK)

Notes business communication instructors have little or no formal training to enable them to meet second-language (L2) students' special needs. Describes a double translation method for motivating these students which is supported by current research in both L2 pedagogy and intercultural communication theory. (NH)

The entire history of the human race has been marked by transfers of cultural advances from one civilization to another. Suggests that those using cultural diversity to promote ethnic enclaves may be cutting off those ethnic groups from the knowledge, skills, and resources that Western civilization has gleaned from other world civilizations. (CJS)

Develops a two-step framework (resistance to privileged discourse followed by harmonic discourse) for understanding multicultural communication in organizations based on the assumption of cultural difference. Suggests four directions for future research to create the data base that would allow development of a model of multicultural communication…

Offers a review of Latin American scholarly research on communication processes from the 1940s to the early 1990s. Notes international interest in this research and the new challenges faced by it. (SR)

Argues that the true benefit for students of school projects that use E-Mail to communicate electronically with students worldwide is not the added knowledge of technology but that the student gains in reading and writing. Discusses traveling the Internet via FrEdMail and Learning Link. (SR)

Examines effectiveness of intercultural training designed to help international teaching assistants reduce their "personal blame" for difficulties in comprehension. Finds support for a predictive link between training and disclosure and attributions, attributions and certain emotions, and emotions and evaluations of speaker competence. (SR)

Defines social remittance as ideas, behaviors, identities, and social capital that flow from receiving, to sending countries. Shows how these ideas are remolded in receiving countries, the mechanisms by which they are sent back, and the role they play in transforming sending-country social and political life. (MMU)

Interprets data collected from multi-modal sources (ethnographic interviewing and non-participant observation) using an analytic-inductive method to construct a new Layered Model of Problematic Intercultural Communication. Provides a holistic view of the ways the macro-context, individual (in)competencies, and dyadic communication behaviors…

Describes an exercise to help students understand the difference between expressive and neutral text. Examines issues of translation (the author's style, mixed levels of expression from the colloquial to the professional, different norms in the source and target languages) as a means of doing so. (SR)

Investigates the effects of self-construals on the attitudinal and normative components of the Theory of Reasoned Action in the cultures of Korea, Hawaii, and the mainland United States. Finds that undergraduate students in all three locations scored higher on independence than interdependence, and culture appears to affect the extent to which…

Describes four diversity-related group activities for adolescents or adults, used in adventure- and experiential-education settings. Includes target group, group size, time and space requirements, activity level, props, instructions, and tips for post-activity group reflection and processing. The activities are concerned with social-justice…

Describes the author's experience sharing picture books with children from different countries while she absorbed the stories, language, and culture. Discusses the recent emergence and popularity of the picture book with its polysemic nature, interdependency of picture and text, universality of themes, and its potential to speak across nations.…

Focus groups of recent Hmong and Somali immigrants provided information about effective design variables for public service brochures. Participants preferred a bilingual layout. Hmong participants did not like images showing native dress; Somali images must respect cultural aspects of dress. (Author/JOW)