Introduction

New Directions for Intercultural Communication Research

Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin

The physical destruction of other cultures through war is still with us; domination through occupation and police control is still with us; exploitation of land and resources is still with us; alteration of cultural identity through religious or political conversion is still with us. And our new technology would appear to make the control of cultures even more feasible now through the manipulation of information and ideas.

Dean C. Barnlund (1985, p. 395)

The intercultural communication enterprise has been driven by an emphasis on the relationships between the modern European world, as expressed by the dominant cultures of North ...

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