The Basics of Intercultural Communication with the Arabic Community

Abstract

Intercultural communication is a mutual communicating of individuals or groups represent-ing different cultures, which are used in a variety of ways to establish mutual relations. The aim ofintercultural communication is to know the behavior, customs, ceremonies, and beliefs of the othercultures. Avoiding or a total lack of contacts with representatives of other cultures brings ignoranceof the complexity of the social world and its wealth and can cause a culture shock, as well as theconflict of cultures. However, in order to properly carry out this kind of communication, it is necessaryto know the basic building blocks for a particular social group, consisting of: history, oral tradition,language, beliefs and customs. It is also important noticing the differences between cultures. In -tercultural dialogue naturally creates difficulties, since they meet in the representatives of differentcultures. Acceptance of differences leads to developing proper coexistence societies, which is espe-cially important in the current world.