56일차. ♣ Unit 4. Business communication - LESSON 3. COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES [Cross-cultural communication]
※ Cross-cultural communication
*Understanding cross-cultural communication is important any time you're operating in a diverse group or in different cultural settings.
Cultural sensitivity is important any time you're operating in a different culture.
In some cultures, it's considered rude to maintain eye contact.
People from that culture tend to gesture a lot with their hands.
My host told me that pointing with my finger was rather impolite.
She was completely comfortable with the silence, but I wasn't.
Indirect communication can be difficult to understand.
• operate
4-[intransitive] + adv./prep. (of a business, organization or service) to work, especially in a particular way or from a particular place
: 자동사 [V] (사업체·기관 등이 특정한 방식으로 또는 특정한 곳에서) 영업[작업]하다
e.g.)
A new late-night service is now operating.
Retailers operate in a fast-paced environment.
The business operates on a cooperative basis.
We operate independently from our sister companies.
They plan to operate from a new office in Edinburgh.
그들은 에든버러의 새 사무실에서 업무를 볼 계획이다.
Illegal drinking clubs continue to operate in the city.
이 도시에서는 불법적으로 술을 파는 클럽들이 계속 영업을 하고 있다.
They consider it rude to maintain eye contact.