Learning Objectives

  • List the barriers to effective and appropriate intercultural communication.
  • Give an example of ethnocentrism that demonstrates it as a barrier to intercultural communication.
  • Distinguish between stereotypes, prejudice, and racism and show how each is a barrier to intercultural communication.
  • Explain how assuming similarity instead of difference acts as a barrier in intercultural communication between China and the United States.
  • Explain how ethnocentrism acts as a barrier in intercultural communication between China and the United States.
  • Explain how stereotypes and prejudice act as barriers in intercultural communication between China and the United States.