Cross Cultural Competence

Question 1

What is the definition of culture?

Answer 1

-the creation, maintenance, and transformation across generations of semi-shared patterns of meaning, sense-making, affiliations, action, and organization

Question 2

What is the definition of worldview?

Answer 2

-a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint

Question 3

What are the 12 cultural domains?

Answer 3

-family and kinship
-sex and gender
-sustenance and health
-religion and spirituality
-political and social relations
-economics and resources
-history and myth
-learning and knowledge
-technology and material
-aesthetics and recreation
-time and space
-language and communication

Question 4

What are the six cultural dimensions?

Answer 4

-power distance
-collectivism vs. individualism
-uncertainty avoidance index
-femininity vs masculinity
-short-term vs long-term
-restraint vs indulgence

Question 5

How does cross cultural competency affect mission accomplishment?

Answer 5

-work more effectively with host nations and build partnerships

-develop more effective strategies to defeat adversaries

-achieve desired end state after combat operations

-fewer US troops required on foreign soil