I think the six stumbling blocks are proper and it seems that everyone know them so at first, this book seemed useless. However, after I thought about the good points of this book, I realized that it was difficult to avoid them so we needed to understand them objectively by this book. Of course, we should think about problems of intercultural communication by ourselves but it is also important to read books.
Among the six stumbling blocks, I think High Anxiety is the biggest problem because it effects other blocks as the book says. However, the interesting point is that moderate tension is good for our challenges and sometimes we need it. I do not know what can be “moderate” tension and what can be “high” anxiety. Also, we can not control our anxiety. In my group discussion, we talked about the solution of culture shock and from this book we concluded that we needed to realize the existence of culture shock and become familiar with many kinds of people. It is one of the good solutions but I think each person has different ones. Thus, this book may be a key to intercultural communication and we should think about what is problems or that solution.
I also think that the High Anxiety is the biggest problem in intercultural communication. Since we usually live in each different society, we never know how the opponent culture is like. But I think it is important to know the fact that culture is different from each communities.
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