This assessment requires you to reflect on an intercultural communication event that you have experienced between yourself and an Australian.
a) Describe the event without evaluation or interpretation.
b) Describe the event from your perspective - how did you feel and what did you think of the other person/people?
c) Identify the key cultural dimensions (Hofstede, Hall and/or Trompenaars) that may help to explain this event from the perspective of your home culture (please identify your home culture).
d) Using these cultural dimensions as a framework evaluate or interpret this event from the perspective of your home culture.
e) Identify the key cultural dimensions (Hofstede, Hall and/or Trompenaars) that may help to explain this event from the perspective of Australian culture.
f) Using these cultural dimensions as a framework evaluate or interpret this event from the perspective of Australian culture.
g) Compare these evaluations and interpretations, how are they different and how are they similar?
h) What did you learn from this event? How would you like to react if this event was to occur again?