Dean barnlund Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This journal entry is about comparing the writings of Amy Tan, Eric Liu, and Dean Barnlund, who all wrote about intercultural communication and racial conflicts, through different lenses. Amy Tan and Eric Liu wrote about their experiences with dual identities, but Dean Barnlund, a white American man, did not have the same kinds of interpersonal or cultural conflicts due to his identity.

This essay is about how Dean Barnlund’s essay "Communication in a Global Village" reflects and contradicts Amy Tan's essay "The Language of Discretion." Amy Tan refutes Dean Barnlund’s ideas by suggesting that comparing languages leads to dangerous generalizations, criticizing the Chinese stereotype by Americans, and proving that culture and nationality are two separate entities.

This journal entry is about how Dean Barnlund's writings on "Communication in a Global Village" relate to intercultural communication and racial conflict today. Barnlund's writings, particularly his concept of the "rulebook" of meanings, truly relate to the discrimination and conflict in intercultural communication in today's society.

This is a journal entry for the Mastering Liberal Arts I class about a piece of popular media that reflects the ideas of cultural differences. The film I wrote about is titled “Crash,” which revolves around various racial and social conflicts.