My PRICA score was 36 while my PRCA score was 95. Having a PRCA score over 75 and even 80 shows that I have general to high levels of communication apprehension. My PRICA score reflected that I have low to median intercultural communication apprehension. I expected both scores to be relatively lower, so I was surprised to see such a high score on the PRCA. I guess that I do feel intimidated in most conversations, and I never want to intrude or put my two senses into any conversation in fear that I would be looked down on. Maybe I feel more comfortable talking with people from other cultures because I can learn from them, and I feel as though they might not judge me so easily for my thoughts and opinions.  In the textbook culture is an "accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by an identifiable group of people with a common history and verbal and nonverbal symbol systems" (Neuliep, 2021, p. 12). I think that there is so much that goes into our culture but off of the top of my head I would say that religion is one thing significant. Most of my culture worships god or even just believes in God. in our culture, men typically ask their girlfriends dad for permission before asking them to marry them. I also think that gender roles are a large part of our culture, here we typically see the women raising the babies and taking care of the inside of the house while the men bring home the money and take care of the outside. I do think that this is slowly changing, especially because we live in a world where most families required two incomes.  I think that people are afraid to communicate with cultures other than their own because there is a lot of unknowns. What is normal for other cultures, Americans might find repulsed by. I enjoyed this chapter's example of how words mean different things within different cultures so conversations can get pretty messed up. it relates to the components of intercultural communication competence because if we do not know anything about someone's culture, we will not know how to interact with them. We need to know some of their rules, norms, and expectancies to be able to comfortably communicate with different cultures.    please reply to this discussion post

My PRICA score was 36 while my PRCA score was 95. Having a PRCA score over 75 and even 80 shows that I have general to high levels of communication apprehension. My PRICA score reflected that I have low to median intercultural communication apprehension. I expected both scores to be relatively lower, so I was surprised to see such a high score on the PRCA. I guess that I do feel intimidated in most conversations, and I never want to intrude or put my two senses into any conversation in fear that I would be looked down on. Maybe I feel more comfortable talking with people from other cultures because I can learn from them, and I feel as though they might not judge me so easily for my thoughts and opinions. 

In the textbook culture is an "accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by an identifiable group of people with a common history and verbal and nonverbal symbol systems" (Neuliep, 2021, p. 12). I think that there is so much that goes into our culture but off of the top of my head I would say that religion is one thing significant. Most of my culture worships god or even just believes in God. in our culture, men typically ask their girlfriends dad for permission before asking them to marry them. I also think that gender roles are a large part of our culture, here we typically see the women raising the babies and taking care of the inside of the house while the men bring home the money and take care of the outside. I do think that this is slowly changing, especially because we live in a world where most families required two incomes. 

I think that people are afraid to communicate with cultures other than their own because there is a lot of unknowns. What is normal for other cultures, Americans might find repulsed by. I enjoyed this chapter's example of how words mean different things within different cultures so conversations can get pretty messed up. it relates to the components of intercultural communication competence because if we do not know anything about someone's culture, we will not know how to interact with them. We need to know some of their rules, norms, and expectancies to be able to comfortably communicate with different cultures. 

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