After researching into the broader conversation on
my topic, I realize I have come across a gap amidst the scholarship on
interpersonal communication. The larger conversation focuses majorly on
cultural communication when people are integrated from two foreign
macrocultures. However, few have looked into the issues of communication that
occurs when people from different microcultures communicate. When one comes
from the same macroculture, it seems logical that they will be able to
communicate with someone who has the same broad cultural influences. However,
people neglect to realize that our socializations from a variety of
microcultures affect our abilities to communicate with those around us as
well.
Within a single subculture, which is defined as a
smaller section of a broader macroculture, there are thousands of microcultures
that define a person's identity. A microculture is an aspect of the subculture
that a person identifies himself or herself with. For the purpose of my
project, I am looking into microcultural communication between my personal
microculture, Laguna Beach and Southern California, and the microculture, which
I have attended college in. By examining the microculture of Lexington and
Southern California, I will be able to definitely make a statement about the
issues that occur when people from different microcultures communicate. By
drawing from my own experiences, and collaborating them with evidence from
other Southern Californian's experiences in Lexington, I will be able to definitively
answer this question.
At this point in my project, I am in the midst of my research speaking
with and conducting interviews with others in order to see if my experiences
are similar to theirs. I have drawn from my personal experiences and now I am
in the process of collaborating them with the experiences of my
interviewees.
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