Describe North American Culture

Cultural CommunicationType Your Name HereType University TitleDate of Submission1) Discuss why and how cultures differ. Give many specific examples of the differences.AnswerFirstly an organisation can be described as a legal entity comprised of people who engage with each other to meet the same strategic objectives. The ideology behind an organisation is that organisational culture and communication play a vital part in bringing diverse groups of people together to achieve a common goal. Culture can be defined by (Schein 1992) as a pattern of shared assumptions invented, discovered or developed as it learns to cope with problems of external adaptation and internal integration. Communication is in twined with culture, as it’s a social product maintained by ongoing communicative interaction between members. (Phillips and Brown 1993) Communication is defined as the transmission o information and the exchange of meaning between at least 2 people. (Huczynski 2006) The Shannon and Weaver model helps to define the process of communication as it talks about sending, receiving and encoding a message. Depending on the culture it can have