Q1. Please read the assigned chapter, and summarize and review your reading. Please be specific with the key notions and their page numbers. How would you state the importance of intercultural communication? (Hint: the importance should be best summarized in different points and explained with supportive details.) In other words, your response should prove that you have finished the reading assignment so make sure you provide your reading review with specific page numbers. Q2. Have you ever encountered and communicated with people who are different from you in some aspects? In which ways can you relate the importance of intercultural communication to your own personal, social life, and political life? Please give examples from your own experiences. Part 2 Importance of Intercultural Communication in Professional setting or Working Life (200 words minimum) Q1. Why do we have to prepare ourselves for a culturally diversified working place? Why do we need to learn how to work as a team with people of different cultures? Please try to use your firsthand experiences or observation in your own professional or working relationships. Q2. In managing professional or workplace conflicts, in which ways your ways of dealing with conflicts are different from some other people (co-workers, customers, etc)? What do you think have causes such differences?
