Reflect on Riccardi’s TED Talk
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Reflect on Riccardi’s TED Talk
Riccardi discusses and talks about a couple of factors that relate to communication. First, he notes that communication is critical and is governed by perception, culture, curiosity, misperception, and rules and regulation. This essay seeks to explore the various nuggets or take away from Riccardi’s Ted talk.
Firstly, he talks about perception. He discusses people perception, and he is always ready to test their perception (Riccardi, 2014). He does this by quoting “people see what they want to see, but they do not see what you see.” From the clip, he discusses one of the scenarios where he is speaking English fluently and the people assisting him to pay a lot of attention to what he said but when he changes and speaks English in Italian accent people do not pay attention. We can, therefore, not that people see what they want but what you want.
Secondly, he talks about culture and argues that there is a system of behaviour that helps us act conventionally or familiarly (Riccardi, 2014). So basically, everyone has different ideas of acceptance and familiarity. He also talks about equality and gives an example of Norway culture, which is impressive. In Norway, they follow this terminology equality, and they mean it. He notes that people are always curious to know about others and can ask as many questions per day as possible.
Lastly, he talked about misperception and showed that people misunderstood and misinterpret very quickly in their daily lives (Riccardi, 2014). Therefore, communication is paramount. How we deliver, receive, and decode information is essential. He ends by saying that, even though he shares three culture Norway, Italy, and the UK, he tries his best to take out the best of the three cultures.
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Riccardi P., (2014). Cross-cultural communication. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyofREc5Jk