Three cultures and Intercultural Communication

Three cultures and Intercultural Communication
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Introduction
Culture represents a set of shared values among a group of people, and affects the way people behave and act. People in diverse cultures attach meanings and significance to certain cultural aspects with some being seen as normal in a group and strange. Cultural differences affect communication as some cultures can be affective or neutral. Language used body language and choice of words affects intercultural communication as the context may mean different things to different cultural groups. There can also be cultural differences even for people who may share similarities within another cultural group like people in the LGBT community. This essay focuses on the deaf culture, whiteness, homosexual culture, how rules and values affect the cultures, communication languages, gestures as well impact of intercultural communication.
Rules and values
The deaf culture America can be traced way back to the late 1700s, with the first deaf school having being established in 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut. It is from the encounters of diverse deaf children that ASL came into being (NPR, 2005). Even though, individualism is an aspect of American culture, the deaf people cherish collectivism, people typically approach a group to say goodbye. On the other hand, whiteness refers to the shared beliefs ad values among whites, and in America it extends to values common among the Caucasians whose ancestors came from Europe.
Essentially, whiteness represents a racial identity that also includes privileges associated with being white and racial bias. Nonetheless, the culture could at times be interpreted to mean those who are white supremacist, as most Caucasians in America refer to themselves as simply Americans or whites. The history of homosexual culture is not uniform as many countries outlaw homosexual acts. Even in America, where some states have allowed gay mar...