DIRECTIONS: Your Japanese best friend, Ichika (female name, means one thousand flowers), has just started dating your American best friend, Jack, and they are already facing some misunderstandings. Being an intercultural communication scholar, help the couple. Explain to them what communication challenges they may need to deal with in the future, in terms of their relationship to their (prospective?) in-laws and extended family, their expression of love, gifts, household decisions, etc. Also, discuss a few challenges Ichika would face in the American workplace and Jack in the Japanese workplace to help them make up their minds about where they may want to build their life together.
For your discussion post: use at minimum three worldviews/dimensions of culture (if needed, refresh your memory by reviewing week Feb 3-9 I have attached links below to access information to help you with this discussion post) to express the differences between the Japanese and American cultures, and your choice of an additional one or two concepts from any of the previous materials. As always, 275 words.
Attached are links that will help you type up this discussion post:
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/profcommsontario/chapter/cross-cultural-communication/
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_66.htm
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/seven-dimensions.htm