Cross cultural communication | Pellegrino Riccardi | TEDxBergen

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Pellegrino, being a cross cultural expert, he is sharing with us his personal and professional experience about how do very different cultures can successfully coexist next to each other. Is it difficult to live in Norway, being an expat? Do you know how to establish the mutual understanding between Italian and Norwegian?

Pellegrino comes form both an English and an Italian background, and is currently living in Norway. For the past 27 years he has travelled around the world and interacted with countless different cultures, nationalities and people-types. His work philosophy is to work with what you enjoy and what you are passionate about, what you believe you can excel in and are prepared to work hard to be excellent at, and only work with what can bring about positive change in yourself and in other people.

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1:04 Perception (Understanding what People See)
- People see what they want to see
- It is the ability to dig under the surface and find out the underlying values are...(Key to Communicate with people)
- When you feel uncomfortable you tend to focus on the negative
- something weird to the society is unaccepeteed and unfamiliar

8:58 How to deal with people with different codes and culture
1. curiousity
Ask a simple curious question, then pick words that interests you...
YOU HAVE TO BE CURIOUS TO UNDERSTAND OTHERS
misperception is when we focus on negative sides

13:45 Rules are different in others
Its not about changing cultures its about Expanding your culture and merge all the positive aspect of each culture. This called a Global Mindset... This makes the world round

take out the good sides of each and then extend your cultural boundary. Of course, it's easier said than done, and struggles comes along with it, but eventually that's how you grow and that's how the world goes around.

[sarenawhite]

Watched this video for an assignment in my Intercultural Communication class at Mercer University. Loved it. It confirmed to me that I have a global mindset.

[KoreanwithMissVicky]

I have both Korean and American, a little European, sides inside myself. It's hard to combine Eastern and Western cultures, because there are immense differences between the two, but just like Pellegrino said, the best way is to take out the good sides of each and then extend your cultural boundary. Of course, it's easier said than done, and struggles comes along with it, but eventually that's how you grow and that's how the world goes around.

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“I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others. Now, those of you -- I see the look in your eyes like, "I would've walked differently." Well, ask yourselves why you were clapping. Now, we all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, "That's bad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society .

[rickburgunder]

Leaving your shoes off in the line so you can sit down instead is smart

[zhgkxnq]

What an excellent speaker! Not only informative but personal, humorous and overall delightful!

[brandprincejoo]

Pellegrino R. is one amazing "hands on" Presenter that surely impacts & imparts you with the rudiments & cross-cultural contexts of global people's behavioral in the public space; and with a great sense of humour too.

[factbeaglesarebest]

This is now my absolute favorite TedTalks! I’m communications major now going for intercultural communication...
I wish I could sit down with you and have a discussion... this is exactly the stuff I love to hear in intercultural communication group. I got my BA in history and wants to teach, but learned quickly that I want to both make a difference and bridge the divide between cultures. It’s amazing how the world improves when we learn how to approach life with cultural relativism but in a practical and adaptive ways!

[lindaleijten]

Our studycoaching lecturer made us watch this (I'm in an international course in the Netherlands), and I just rewatched this because I will never forget the whole complaining thing. It's really just a matter of how you go about certain characteristics. Really opened my eyes, and I can't wait to see more of the world asap. Thank you for sharing!

[yuliyakriger]

Pellegrino, thank you! I would not be able to make it clearer. I'm Ukrainian living in Mexico and everything you've said is so

[EnglishwithKristina]

What an amazing presentation. This truly is what makes the world go 'round...

[danydmenezes]

The 19:20 is exactly how I decided to live my life in Sweden. Born and raised in Brazil, local Bostonian and now a resident in Skåne, I was miserable in my first year. The culture, the rules, the quiet life were too much for me. I had to rearrange my way of thinking, putting those 3 cultures together in other to create my own culture. Now I am so much positive about my life here. It's not easy, it's an everyday challenge, but I feel much better! Thank you for reassuring I'm on the right track!

[MargauxKim_]

Outstanding presentation! Thank you Mr. Riccardi!

[Oscar]

That is a great example of how Cultures can be different in many worlds. I'm American who lives in Mexico, and I understand many Mexican cultures.

[Cristinatanaskovich]

Love this it truly shows an example across cultures, born in Romanian, married a Serbian that grew up in US, having three children, lucky to travel, and experiencing, exactly what Mr Pellegrino, accepting who you are, and learning other cultures, takes an effort that some people are willing to accept, when you identify, who you are and willing to accept other cultures you certainly are ready to move on to a global identity, I think this is so beneficial, values are learned, and staying on the positive, helps identify, and value your own culture, can you see that, are you ready for a change, being curious is a good thing, who listens, and who practices, makes a difference! Loved this talk, the examples were extremely important, it shows the originality of different cultures, that is so beautiful a learning and enriching experience, I love this ability to experiment different cultures it is a beautiful life!:)❤️❤️❤️

[MaskfFate]

The story of the traffic cop in Italy just makes me smile.

[melania]

When I became an American Citizen in Miami, the mayor of the city (a born American) gave a beautiful speech to a crowd of about 1, 500 people from all over the world. And he end up his speech by saying; by you becoming American citizens does not mean you should give up your roots and your culture is by you enriching the the culture of United States Of America with the culture you were born with, congratulations my brothers and sisters.

[bigboss-jebw]

I really liked your presentation, thank you
By the way I am doing my PhD on Cross Cultural communication, in Napoli (I am from Algeria) ^^

[justicekoskei]

It is interesting how culture shapes language and how we talk, including phonetics. It also determines what people mean when they say something even if that something is understood differently in another culture.

[aliahtanya]

hello so i am watching this because of school but i enjoyed listening to the speaker. he was really great and i did not even get bored. thank youu