People often don't say what they mean and they often don't mean what they say

The image above is closely defined our entry for today’s topic which is about people often don't say what they mean and they often don't mean what they say.

This situation is very common to all of us as it happens to everyone for countless of times in our life. It is no doubt that most of us did encounter the same situation as in the image where instead of saying thank you to convey appreciation when someone lend their ears to listen to our problem, we tend to say sorry for taking their times because we feel guilty. We do not really mean what we said as we choose another words to replace our true feeling.

Moreover, we found that people in our culture prefer to hide their true feeling and cover it with another thing. For example, when someone gives us a lot of work to do and ask if we are fine with it, we tend to give positive response and keep the negative comment for ourselves. We believe this kind of feedback helps in maintaining good relationship with others. However people are encourage to talk about the dissatisfaction to improve the situation because dissatisfaction is not good for long term. When we talk about it, we can try to solve it and in a way it does help in our relationship development.

Bonus tip: If you intend to talk more on this, don't hesitate to drop your comments down below! Let's listen to each other and don't be shy to finish each other's sentence...that's the FUN part!

Encounter Intercultural Communication

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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. 

Bonus tip: If you intend to talk more on this, don't hesitate to drop your comments down below! Let's                   listen to each other and don't be shy to finish each other's sentence...that's the FUN part!

About Us

Salam and Hey there! Maisarah and Syahirah here.

Welcome to the Friday's Ramblings! We're the undergraduates of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Bachelor of English for International Communication and are currently taking ENCO 2101 - Intercultural Communication course.

The primary reason of creating this blog is to serve the purpose of this course: to put our intercultural communication skills into practice and develop an understanding of another culture.

The blog is to share the cultures together -Yep, together!

So, who will we share this journey with? To find out more, let's hop in and we can go for a drive. 

So stay with us for more discoveries!

P/s: In this blog there will be more than one culture to be shared and there are no rules and definitely no such thing as a wrong view. Just scroll the entry and jot down whatever silly thoughts or sweet memories pop into your brain. Let's chat about it together!