This document discusses communicating across cultures. It emphasizes that culture is complex, learned, dynamic, and has visible and invisible aspects. Culture influences context, communication styles, views of individualism and time. High context cultures rely more on implicit communication and collectivism, while low context cultures favor explicit communication and individualism. To improve intercultural communication, one must avoid ethnocentrism, bridge cultural gaps through empathy and patience, and adapt to different cultural norms of space, etiquette, trust and habits.