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Intercultural Communication

Explore ethical judgments in intercultural interactions through the lens of six golden approaches to ethics. Discover the interplay between ethics and culture, challenging universalism and relativism perspectives, and embrace ethical principles for peaceful and loving relations.

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Intercultural Communication

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  1. Intercultural Communication Chapter 12: Can Judgments of Right and Wrong Be Made When Dealing with Other Cultures?

  2. Ethics refers to the means or moral standards by which actions may be judged good or bad, right or wrong. They are the rules of conduct that govern our lives.

  3. Six Golden Approaches to Ethics: • Golden Purse (power makes right) • Golden Mean (moderation is a virtue) • Golden Public (the headline test) • Golden Law (universal means over ends) • Golden Consequence (ends over means) • Golden Rule (treat others as would want to be treated)

  4. The Relationship between Ethics and Communication? One of constraint? One of empowerment? One of both constraint and empowerment?

  5. Ethics and Culture • Universalism: Seeing ethics as entirely separate from culture What challenges does this perspective create?

  6. Ethics and Culture • Relativism: Seeing ethics as entirely bound to the beliefs of a particular culture What challenges does this perspective create?

  7. Ethics and Culture Treating universalism and relativism as a dialectical tension that fits on a continuum and encourages conversation, rather than as isolated concepts that involve exclusive categories and have no room for conversation, produces key principles for intercultural relations.

  8. Three Ethical Principles for Consideration: • Effort to understand • Peaceful disagreement • Loving relationships

  9. Effort to Understand: • Teachable attitude • Accepting mutual legitimacy • Engaging in dialogue • Considering the context

  10. Peaceful Disagreement: • Nonviolence (not as a behavior, but as an attitude) • Truth and openness (avoiding secrecy and deception)

  11. Loving Relations: • A willingness to be inconvenienced for the benefit of others • A recognition of the importance of relationships and connection for everyone

  12. Intercultural marriage as an exemplar of key ideas: • Good motives • Common goals • Sensitivity to the other’s needs • Flexibility • Spirit of adventure • Positive self-image • Sense of humor • Commitment to the relationship • Willingness to communicate

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