intercultural barriers
Oscar arias Sanchez Intercultural Communication October 13th, 2003 Cultural Contrasts Getting in touch with a new culture might sound attractive and funny for some people. ... Then, it becomes clear that intercultural communication is difficult but possible; therefore, it is crucial that people from the “host” culture adopt a hospitable attitude towards foreigners to make the language learning process less traumatic and more efficient. ... Thus, both identifying first and, consequently, understanding those cultural contrasts definitely create a clear “highway” to a successful intercultural relationship When various cultures as dissimilar one from another as the case of the Costa Rican with the ones from Slovak, Denmark or Sierra Leona have to interact, it is easy to think that some difficulties will appear.