Talk:Cultural communication

Subject is not addressed
The subject, cultural communication is neither defined nor addressed directly. Rather it starts as a discussion of cultural relativism. A later section abruptly starts talking about "intercultural miscommunication." Both of these discussions may be salvageable if someone actually talked about cultural communication first, then led into these other subjects. As it stands, this is one of the worst articles on Wikipedia. Dewobroto (talk) 13:25, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

The article's title "cultural communication" is not addressed as a subject. It is difficult to understand why this article has not been deleted or changed. Its content and method are chaotic.JaneHuds93 (talk) 10:17, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Lack of citation
Hi, I have read this article. You have been written many information that is accurate. However, you forgot to give credits to the writers or authors when you borrowed their ideas. You must cite everything that you have written.

If you add an idea about "interdependence" to collectivist culture. Collectivist culture mainly related to the interdependence rather than individualistic.

Overall, it is a good summary for cultural communication, but please cite the sources that you may use other's idea or words.

--Jamesmin89 (talk) 07:11, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Incorrect information
The section of this page that describes high & low power distance contains incorrect information. I will quote it below.

"High- and Low-Power Distance: Power distance is the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in a particular society. The higher the power distance of a country, the more dominant individuality and individual rights are. When power distance is low, society does not emphasize people’s status, power, or wealth. In other words, individualistic cultures have high power distance and collectivist cultures have low power distance. Examples of countries with high power distance include Malaysia, Russia, and Romania while countries with low power distance include Austria, Israel, and Denmark."

It describes high-power distance cultures as being more individualist and vice-versa. The opposite is actually true. Generally speaking low-power distance cultures tend to be individualistic and high-power cultures tend to be more collectivist.

Nicksbee (talk) 13:25, 16 September 2014 (UTC)Nicksbee

Media
After looking at the article and the feedback, I think it could also be beneficial if there were images added to the article about communication in different cultures. Especially because non-verbal communication is so important, it could be helpful to add visuals of what that would look like. Kparso11 (talk) 21:44, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Making changes
The first item I would like to fix is in the lead section because it is not long enough and does not have enough detail. I would like to add more about Edward T. Hall who is essentially the father of cultural communication. There is also no table of contents which would be helpful as this page grows. After the lead section, there should be a history section that could entail the works of Edward T. Hall. Another notable person to add would be the social psychologist Geert Hofstede because he developed the theory of cultural dimensions which is basically a framework to understand high and low context cultures. The cultural dimensions are individualism and collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity and femininity. His framework for cultural dimensions could be used to improve a lot of this page. There could also be a photo added to show his framework for a better understanding of the concept. I would like the break the "overview" section into separate sections. There should be a section on low context cultures and high context cultures and a separate section for non-verbal communication. Power distance is in here, but I think it should be labeled high context and low context cultures. There also should be more citations and resources used for high and low context cultures along with some examples of how countries with low context cultures are different from countries with high context cultures. After adding a section for low context and high context cultures the next section should be individualism cultures and collectivist culture which again needs more research done on it with more citations. Non-verbal communication should also have its own section with more citations and detail so people can better understand what it is. Adding a photo to this section would be helpful as well. All in all, this page needs more detail and citations for better comprehension and preciseness on cultural communication. Bre1632 (talk) 22:56, 18 March 2022 (UTC)