Living with Cultural Differences
摘要
The last chapter deals with the topic of intercultural communication. In approaching this topic, the author suggests taking the culture shock experienced when encountering another culture as the starting point for the investigation. The culture shock experienced in a foreign country arises precisely because the way of communicating that is rooted in one’s own lifeworld—the way of life that was previously taken for granted—differs from the way of communicating in another lifeworld. By directly confronting this culture shock, one can trace the process of how one’s own, previously unrecognized way of life came about, using the method of “dismantling” applied in genetic phenomenology. Genetic phenomenology examines the passive and active emergence of each unique intersubjectivity that forms in the respective lifeworlds. This enables the establishment of a field of research in intercultural phenomenology that questions the possibility of genuine intercultural understanding.