跨文化文献综述

In this case, an American student Kenneth and a Malaysia student Vernon decided to have dinner together. Kenneth gave the pizza to Vernon by his left hand, but Vernon refused it. Kenneth didn’t know what he was wrong. And the two just kept on eating without much conversation.

This case can reflect the problems appearing during intercultural communication and how ignoring cultural differences can affect communication. We also find this case talks about interracial communication.

Interracial communication is a kind of communication, including representing the interaction between people of different races in the history.

As such it encompasses the encounters between people in a practical sense—the ordinary engagement of human beings from various racial, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds with each other in the quite human activity of social interaction. It also entails the researching of the phenomenon of racial engagement, seeking to determine the problems and prospects of such discursive engagement with people of different racial backgrounds.

One might say that interracial communication is a variety of communication inasmuch as mass communication, interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, cyber communication, and institutional communication are all parts of the same overarching field.