1.People are culturally different

Agricultural Culture: worship land,love land,depend upon   land, staying at point with  moving.

Nomadic Culture: worship nature,love nature, depend upon nature, moving from one place to another, not fixed atone   point.

Business Culture: ready to move fartherand farther, making more profits for  showing thevalue of life.

2.People are religiously different

Christianity.

Christianity is anAbrahamic monotheistic  religion based onthe life and teachings of Jesus Christ, whoserves as the focal point for the religion. It is the world's largest religion,with over 2.4 billion claimed followers, or 33% of the global population, knownas Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the saviorof humanity whose coming as the Messiah (the Christ) was prophesied in the OldTestament.

Islam. Meaning being obedient; Muslimsarethose who are obedient. Islam (/ˈɪslɑːm/ isan Abrahamic monotheistic religion which professes that there is only one andincomparable God (Allah) and that Muhammad isthe last messenger of God. It is the world's second-largest religion and thefastest-growing major religion in the world, with over 1.8 billion followers or 24.1% of the global population,  known as Muslims.  Islam teaches that God is merciful,all-powerful, unique, and has guided mankind through prophets, revealedscriptures and natural signs. The primary scriptures of Islam are the Quran,viewed by Muslims as the verbatim word of God, and the teachings and normativeexample (called the sunnah,composed of accounts called hadith) of Muhammad.

Buddhism.Are you a Buddhist? Buddhists are taught to live for kindness rather thanevils.

Buddhism( /ˈbʊdɪzəm/) is areligion and dharma that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs andspiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to the Buddha.Buddhism originated in Ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuriesBCE, from where it spread through much of Asia, whereafterit declined in India during the Middle Ages. Two major extant branches ofBuddhism are generally recognized by scholars: Theravada (Pali:"The School of the Elders") and Mahayana (Sanskrit: "The GreatVehicle"). Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion, with over 500million followers or 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

3. People are ideologicallydifferent

Westerners are being individualist,being equal and different. It is none of my business.

Chinesepeople and Asians are a bit modest, live for harmony, trying to avoid faceto face conflict.

Being collectivist.

4. People are racially different

White/Caucasian;

Mongoloid/Asian;

Negroid/Black;

Australoid/Brown

Why take InterculturalCommunication?

People are different throughout the world, culturally, religiously, ideologically and racially, actually different in almost every aspect,therefore we are supposed to know about their differencesas much as possible, just for a smooth communicationamong the Homo sapiens, the people in the global village. You will make it by coming to Intercultural Communication.

What Is Culture? 

1)Culture is the total way of life that a groupof people shares.

2)Culture is a system of shared beliefs, values, customs,behaviors, and artifacts that the membersof a society use to cope with theirworld and with one another, and that are  transmittedfrom generation to generation throughlearning.

3) Culture is an Integrated systemof learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of asociety and which are not the result of biological inheritance.

4)Cultureis the deposit of knowledge,experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies,religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe,and artifacts acquired by a group of people in the course of generations throughindividual and group striving.

5)Culture is the total accumulation of beliefs, customs, values, behaviors,institutions and communication patterns that are shared, learned and passeddown through the generations in an identifiable group of people.