Editing Cross-cultural communication (section)

{{Short description|Field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate}}
{{see also|Intercultural communication}}
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}}'''Cross-cultural communication''' is a field of study investigating how people from differing [[culture|cultural]] backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to [[communication|communicate]] across cultures. [[Intercultural communication]] is a related field of study.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/home/default.aspx |title=Japan Intercultural Consulting |access-date=10 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808210149/http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/home/default.aspx |archive-date=8 August 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Cross-cultural deals with the comparison of different cultures.  In cross-cultural communication, differences are understood and acknowledged, and can bring about individual change, but not collective transformations. In cross-cultural societies, one culture is often considered “the norm” and all other cultures are compared or contrasted to the dominant culture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schriefer |first=Paula |date=2016-04-18 |title=What's the difference between multicultural, intercultural, and cross-cultural communication? |url=https://springinstitute.org/whats-difference-multicultural-intercultural-cross-cultural-communication/ |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Spring Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>