Public Speaking in a Multicultural World

Public Speaking in a Multicultural World

Multicultural is a very important thing in speeches, because in all of the speeches given in the world there are people from different culture attending that speech. Even if the lecturer is delivering his/her lecture to the class, then that class is somewhat multicultural. As Dr.Zakir Naik is delivering his speech there are many people listening to him but if we look closer than those people are from different cultures.

The Experts of intercultural Communication says that speech making becomes more complex as Cultural Diversity increases. Cultural Diversity in such a sense that, there is language difference from culture to culture, Thoughts also differ from culture to culture, because one culture and its language is quite different from another. Culture and diversity is closely bound “We communicate the way we do because we are raised in a particular culture and learn its language, rules and norms”.

Many Gestures are different in different parts of the world such as bowing in U.S is usually not done and criticized, but in Japan it shows respect and rank. Slouching is rude in North European areas and hands in pocket are disrespectful in turkey.

Examples of Cultural Diversity

In America most of the cases in the court are because of cultural diversity such as a movie named “Exorcism of Emily Rose”. It was found that the father had killed the girl by treating her in a religious way but she needed medical treatment, in America almost all of them are Christians but some believe in God and Ghosts while others don’t believe it, those defending the case were of the belief that Emily was possessed by a demon but the other party said that there is no such thing as ghost the things which were happening to Emily were purely natural and she needed medical attention.

Another example is that when I was in my 2nd semester and was given a project for opening a new business in Gujranwala. I and my group fellows made a plan for making a café which includes gaming and sheesha lounge from my perspective and that of my group members it was a must done in Gujranwala, because youngsters do not have any place to enjoy this thing. Our business plan was perfect as we surveyed everyone wanted this café, but our teacher said that this is very unethical this business plan if taken in to action will have a disastrous result and you will fail. But happened just because of cultural diversity we live in Sialkot and Gujranwala and has also seen Lahore and its colors so this café was 100% guaranteed success but our teacher was more of a religious type who disliked these things, even I don’t like it but if we talk about making money then this is an ideal business. He wanted us