Cross-Cultural Communication
Cross-cultural communication is a word used to describe how people from various cultural backgrounds modify to improve contact with people from other cultural backgrounds. Being in a situation of “square peg in a round hole,” it’s an idiomatic expression which was used to describe the unusual individualist who could not fit into a position in their society. An excellent example of this situation is in my primary and secondary education. I did my things differently from other students; for instance, I had different talking from the other students. My dressing code was also different from other students and many other things, making me feel like I was in a square peg of a round hole.
The way I used to behave made other students focus on my life, and they seemed to me too much of everything the best noisemaker in the whole class, the very problematic student across the entire course, among many other things. The situation of me being different from other students made me feel painful, but what made me comfortable was that the differences I had marked my strength. While in primary school, the class teacher detached me from the rest of the students and took my desk at the back of the class so that I can give the other students enough time to learn and avoid disturbing them. I never gave up, but instead, I took it as an advantage and created my class, where I came up with strategies for improving my studies.
In high school life, the life I used to live changed probably because I meet with people of different backgrounds, which enabled me to learn different cultures, languages, and lifestyles, making me see many world opportunities. The situation made me feel lonely because I used to do my things differently from others, and most of the time alone.
In convolution, the cultural baggage that brought me to this situation is the first judgment. This is because instead of the people in society to correct me were judging the way I used to behave. Lastly, altitude the other students and teachers had a negative attitude towards my life, which made them discriminate me most of the time we lived together.