Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

CHAPTER I 
CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 
 
Many people who go abroad encounter features in their host 
culture that they may find disturbing. Reaction to these alien 
aspects of the new culture can dampen the entire experience in 
the country, resulting in various kinds of negative reactions. 
Learning another culture, developing relationships with people 
you meet, communicating efficiently, and adapting to the 
environment is a complex task of cross-cultural understanding. 
Cross-cultural understanding is concerned with understanding 
people from different cultural backgrounds/culture of the people 
so we can construct our attitudes and world view, more tolerable 
and generous toward strange ways that may be shown by other 
citizen of another country. If a person from an alien culture 
misinterprets a complex pattern of culture, then cross cultural 
misunderstanding arise.