One of the most important assertions that I personally, and I know most of us in the J08 class have learnt during our time together, is what is stated at the bottom of the first page of this article - "we must know ourselves before we can begin to understand others". In fact this is the main point that those in my discussion group came out of this course thinking. Before we can get to …showed first 75 words of 1107 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1107 total…in the article, "we need to define the overlap in the culture of linguistic groups in order to minimise intercultural misunderstanding", and as such we need to further investigate ways in which we can discover just where the similarities begin and differences end, or vice versa. I suppose the bottom line is that until we do so, there will be problems in this area because there will always naturally exist these barriers to multicultural communication.