Chapter two blogpost

Chapter 2 discusses several positions and definitions that help us understand communication ethics. Multiplicity of communication ethics is a term used about the study what we consider good.  We cannot assume that what we believe is good is also consider good by others, people have different views of reality.For example, I encountered a lot of issues moving to the United States; since I was a recent graduate from high school I hadn’t seen much of the world. When I first started to hang out with Americans I often compared their culture to my own culture. I could say things like “well in Sweden we do not talk to strangers like you do here in America because that is weird….” I assumed what I thought was good was how things should be. As the book points out, communicating ethically is not easy – it is a struggle to discern worthwhile values and requires reflection, care, and choice (31).

After a couple of months in the country I realized that I had to stop comparing the U.S with Scandinavia, because who said that my view of the world was the right view of the world?  I understood that I was now in a different culture than my own and that I have to accept that people had different views of reality. I could also tell that others started to get annoyed with me when they said “you are in America now though”. Communication ethics involves searching for direction and recognition of diversity of values/virtues (31).  Communication ethics is the need to learn both sides of the standpoint, and be able to listen to the other. Today I love learning about the differences I can have with other people, it would be boring if we all were the same.