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Cross cultural Communication | Pellegrino Riccardi | TEDxBergen

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According to Pellegrino Riccardi, Culture is a system of behavior that helps us act in an accepted or familiar way. Therefore, in order to avoid misunderstanding, there is a need to establish the intercultural understanding between the cultures. When I was in Istanbul, Turkey, I observed that most of the Turkish, they do things really fast such as walking, eating, talking, and others. Unlike in Malaysia, we are neither too slow nor fast; for most of us, we’re somewhere in between them. At first, I was quite shocked and amazed by that but at the same time; I need to keep pace and try to adapt to their culture as well, especially at the train, bus, tram stations or any other public transportation means. Luckily, curiosity gets me through the way in which that the Turkish themselves are very hard working thus they valued their time, so much. However by this, it doesn’t necessarily means that the Malaysian are not hard working, it is simply means that “we’re doing the same thing but in a slightly different ways” and that’s what we need to understand the culture(s) first, in order to encounter misconception and misunderstanding. 

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