Cross-cultural communication is committed to combining relatively unrelated fields such as cultural anthropology with established communication fields. Its core is to establish and understand how people from different cultural backgrounds communicate with each other. Its task is to make some guides so that people from different cultures can communicate with each other better.
Like many academic fields, cross-cultural communication is a combination of many other fields. These fields include anthropology, cultural studies, psychology and communication. This field is also developing towards dealing with inter-ethnic relations and studying the communication strategies used by cross-cultural people, that is, the communication strategies used to deal with the majority or mainstream people.
With the application of intercultural communication theory in foreign language education being paid more and more attention by countries all over the world, some foreign language departments of universities offer intercultural communication courses, while others offer intercultural communication courses in education departments.
Most importantly, universities need to ensure that they are open and respond to changes in the external environment. In order to make internationalization fully effective, universities (including all employees, students, courses and activities) need to keep up with cultural changes and be willing to adapt to these changes. [8] As Ellingboe said, internationalization "is a continuous, future-oriented, multi-dimensional, interdisciplinary and leadership-driven vision, which involves many stakeholders who are committed to changing the internal dynamics of an organization in order to properly cope with and adapt to the increasingly diverse, globally concerned and ever-changing external environment". [9] New distance learning technologies, such as interactive teleconference, enable students thousands of miles apart to communicate and interact in virtual classrooms.