Studying dating experiences across racial and ethnic lines has been used to determine the existence of a post-racial America.While most previous research has examined general racial/ethnic and gender differences in intercultural college dating experiences, this study analyzes precollege and college-going friendship diversity and skin tone as factors accounting for romantic distance between racial/ethnic groups among a recent cohort of college students.The first time I received this response after having asked for a small favor from a colleague, I was quite confused.: The increased representation of minority students on the campuses of predominantly White universities in the United States presents increased opportunities for intercultural contact.As you'll learn in some examples cited below, you can have the best of intentions but end up insulting people because you violate their norms for behavior.We want you to have positive interactions with people from the host culture and to do that you need to understand what their communication norms are.

Effective American-Chinese Intercultural Communication in the Workplace Have you ever felt that when communicating with your Chinese colleagues, they were speaking in code or expecting you to read their minds? In my first blog , I briefly described low-context American culture as being more individualistic and action-oriented when compared to high-context Chinese culture, which is more collective and intuitive in nature.Hierarchical linear modeling analyses were conducted on a 4-year longitudinal sample of 2804 undergraduate students from 24 colleges and universities.Results confirm that White students continue to be the group most likely to engage in intragroup dating relationships, Latino/a students were the most likely to date interculturally, and that Black men were significantly more likely to date interculturally than Black women.Trying to read between the lines of communication can be particularly difficult for Americans working in China, seeing as we’re not as familiar with the cultural context that our Chinese colleagues draw on when communicating.The most obvious example of indirect, high-context communication is the all-purpose phrase “It’s not convenient,” ( 不方便).