Barriers to intercultural Communication

1. ANXIETY
the first barrier is high anxiety. meaning when your anixous  because of not knowing  what you are expected to do, it is  natural to get that feeling . For example: you experience anxiety when you first meet someones parent or  its your first day in a new job. you start feeling like your out of place and yourattention  focuses on that feeling that you make common mistakes and you start to look awkward.
2. Assuming Similarity Instead of Difference
the second  barrier is Assuming similarity instead of difference.
the book uses a middle class angolan teenager. they said  the cutural diffrence may be in how teenagers listen to music. when you assume similarity between cultures you can be unaware of the important diffrences. assuming diffrences  instead of similarity  can lead to your  not recognizing important things that cultures share in common. its better to assume nothing  its better to ask what the customs are ??? then assuming theyre the same  or diffrent.
3.Ethnocentrism
the third barrier to effective intercultural communication is ethnocentrism meaning judging aspects of another  culture by the standards of ones own culture.

overall i just think it intersting that interculture have diffrent barriers.