Intercultural Awareness Flashcards
Technology development, especially communication and transportation technology, over the last decades is the main reason the world now engages in intercultural communication on a daily basis.
As a result, the need for intercultural knowledge and skills that lead to intercultural communication competence becomes critical for leading a productive and successful life.
Chen and Starosta
It is the ability to acknowledge, respect and tolerate and integrate cultural differences that qualifies one for enlightened global citizenship.
Intercultural communication competence
Intercultural communication competence comprises three interrelated components:
- Intercultural sensitivity
- Intercultural awareness
- Intercultural adroitness
It is the affective aspect of intercultural competence, and refers to the development of a readiness to understand and appreciate cultural differences in intercultural communication.
Intercultural sensitivity
It is the cognitive aspect of intercultural communication competence that refers to the understanding of cultural conventions that affect thinking and behavior.
Intercultural Awareness
It is the behavioral aspect of intercultural communication competence that stresses those skills that are needed for us to act effectively in intercultural interactions.
Intercultural adroitness
What leads to cultural diversity or multiculturalism?
Globalization
The changing cultural characteristics
Neighborhood
School
Workforce
Enlightened global citizen who tolerates cultural differences and shows mutual respect among cultures in order to practice multicultural coexistence
Global civic culture
Six most common intercultural training programs
Affective training Cognitive training Behavioral training Area simulation training Cultural awareness training Self awareness training
It promotes understanding of cultural differences and similarities.
Cognitive training
It requires participants to understand the aspects of culture that are universal and specific
Cultural awareness training
It helps participants to identify attitudes, opinions and biases embedded in their own culture that influence the way they communicate.
Self awareness training
It requires individuals to understand, from their own cultural perspective, that they are cultural beings and to use this understanding as a foundation to further figure out the distinct characteristics of other cultures in order to effectively interpret the behavior of others in intercultural interactions.
Intercultural awareness
If a map is accurate, and you can eead it, you won’t get lost; if you know a culture, you’ll know your way around in the life of a society
Cultural map
The thread that goes through a culture and organizes a culture as a recognizable system. It acts as a guideline to people’s thinking and behavior, and appears repeatedly in daily life.
Cultural theme
Levels intercultural awareness
- Awareness of superficial cultural traits.
- Awareness of significant and subtle cultural traits that contrast markedly with another’s
- Awareness of how another culture feels from the insider’s perspective.
It based mainly on stereotypes. It is tends to be superficial and often partial. The information comes from media, tourism books, textbooks or the first impression.
First level of ICA:
Awareness of superficial cultural traits
Second level of ICA is direct and secondhand experience and has two phase:
Culture conflict situations
Intellectual analysis
It is through experience by direct and indirect interactions with people of another culture.
Second level of ICA
One needs to foster the power of flexibility to make psychic shifts. The power of flexibility is nourished by empathy and “transspection”.
Third level of ICA
It helps one to estimate what is inside another’s mind and to share the other’s experience
Empathy
It was coined by Maruyama who indicates that this is an understanding by practice.
Transspection
It is the ability to project feelings to others with a shared epistemology.
Empathy
