Abstract
When euripides wrote, all is change ; all yields its place and then goes in 422 B.C., he probably did not realize that he would be helping to introduce a book on intercultural communication. Yet, that study of intercultural communication is about change. It is about changes in the world and how the people in that world must adapt to them. More specifically, this book deals with that world changes that have brought us intro direct and indirect contact whit people who, because of their culture, often behave in ways that we do not understand. Whit or without our consent, the last three decades have thrust upon us groups of people who often appear alien. These people, who appear different, may live thousands of miles away or right next door. What is special about them is that in many ways they are not like us. This book is about those people and how to understand them and communicate whit them. Intercultural communication, as we might suspect, is not new. Wandering nomads, religious missionaries, and conquering soldiers have been encountering people different from themselves since the beginning of time. These early meetings, like those of today, were often confusing and hostile. In fact, over two thousand years ago the playwright Aeschylus wrote, -Everyone's quick to blame the alien.- In the 1990s intercultural contacts are more common and the in many ways more significant than those earlier meetings.
