Library & Learning Services: Country Research: Intercultural Communication

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Video Streaming Databases

If you're looking to understand communication across various cultures, you're best bet is to find a video that demonstrates various cultural practices. Try searching the following video databases:

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Contains educational streamed videos on a variety of academic, professional and technical topics.
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Caulfield, N. (Producer), & Wisniewski, L. (Producer & Director). (2003). Ethnic Fragmentation in Canada—The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century [Video file]. Retrieved January 1, 2017, from Films on Demand database.

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Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Includes films and documentaries from Criterion, California Newsreel, HBO, Psychotherapy.net, Learning Seed, Symptom Media and much more.
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Matulich, J. (Producer), & St. John, T. (Director). (2004). The Stanford Video Guide to Negotiating [Video file]. Retrieved January 1, 2017, from Kanopy Streaming Service database.

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Here are some useful videos from these video collections on the topic of intercultural communication.

Intercultural Communicating
Learn: Why some cultures might avoid giving straight answers, how to understand what's really being said, how to read body language and nonverbal cues, what topics might be offensive and disrespectful with other cultures and why some cultures prefer to avoid touching, eye contact, etc.
Building a Multicultural Team
Learn: The challenges of managing multicultural teams in the workplace, developing an effective cross-cultural leadership plan, finding out how to communicate effectively with other cultures, and dealing effectively with differences in values and priorities
Cross-Cultural Understanding
Learn: How to recognize and respect differences in values, how to work effectively with different views of leadership and teamwork, how to deal with different attitudes toward time and deadlines and more, how to respect different beliefs and viewpoints
and more.
Cultural Competence
Learn: Three part series focusing on aspects of culture, ethnicity, and religion, techniques to avoid generalization, and cultural influences towards family roles, modesty, nutrition, birthing and parenting.
Business Culture: Germany
Learn: Public conduct & greetings, business attire, negotiation, decision making, protocol and more.
Communicating in India
Learn: Facts about India, masculine business culture, time perception, creating business relationships, hierarchy, dining customs and etiquette and more.
Communicating in Latin America
Learn: History, understand Latin culture, inner dimensions of culture, business etiquette and more.
Communicating with the Chinese
Learn: Business mentality, Chinese attitude towards communication, mode of communication, social protocol and more.
Cultural Awareness
Learn the do(s) and don't(s) when communicating with different cultures, an excellent resource to illustrate cross-cultural sensitivity.

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