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How would you connect alpha beta partnership, fair shake, rationale/emotive/intuitive,

communications style, and speech acts with CCU learning?

Cross Cultural Understanding derived from three words that cross, cultural, and
understanding, of the three words different meanings. Understanding of the cross is cross
culture, the culture between both countries that lasted through the mass media or through
other means mutually influence each culture. Culture is the “glue” that binds a group of
people together.(Douglas-Brown, 1994). Culture is an elusive construct constantly that shifts
over time and according to who is perceiving and interpreting it. (LindaHarklau- 1999). In
classic, culture is called culture, the which comes from the latin word colore, the process of
work. Can be also interpreted as to cultivate the land or farming. The word culture is also
sometimes translated as "culture" in Indonesian. Understanding Inter-Personal (Interpersonal
Understanding) is the desire to Understand others. It is the ability to listen and accurately
Understand the thoughts, feelings, other people's problems That can not be uttered or not
fully delivered. This competency measure complexity and depth of understanding of other
people, also including cross-cultural sensitivity. 
So, the definition of cross-cultural understanding are:
All human beings experience the same felling Plus They travel to or live in a different
country or culture. (Obeg, 1998)
Whenever someone goes overseas,he is like a fish out of water. (Mason, 2000). 
The importance of learning Cross Cultural Understanding because learning a foreign
language is not a part from learning the culture of the language user. This is to help them
avoid making non-language mistake, and to assist with knowledge to understand them native
speakers of the language, further if they have to opportunity to go abroad, they may survive a
culture shock.
Actually, the Cross Cultural Understanding is the basic of learn a foreign language
(not arrange or choose a word). How to make communication with the owner of native
language, because there are many different expressions, we can not translate one by one or
lexical, because it has the big connection with custom and culture and also situation and
conditions. Cross Cultural Understanding is to understand the relationship among different
countries. It means that Cross Cultural Understanding is the way to understand the different
culture of different country to avoid misunderstanding.

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