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Building Your Intercultural Competence – Assignment Week 2: Building Your Intercultural
Competence: Frameworks and
Tools
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
– John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, cleric in the
Church of England
Each person develops a sense of self through communication and interaction with
other people. An individual’s environment, community, and culture coalesce to form the
personal self. Since personal self forms the only way of knowing from the earliest stages
of a human life, it informs the way the individual will interact with new environments,
communities, and cultures.
In the last week, you explored how your culture was transmitted to you. You examined
your beliefs, values, and norms, your coming of age experience, and how your culture
affects the way you communicate with other people. In this week, you consider how
properly understood stereotypes can assist in building cultural competence in certain
situations. You also apply frameworks and tools to self-assess your skills and support
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tural communication. Answer Preview………….I have been able to communicate with people who come from different types of cultures and some of these interactions they have yield positive results and the other negative results. Intercultural communication is not an easy task as sometimes is hindered by language barriers exhibited by those individuals communicating. At one time I had a cross-cultural interaction with an individual coming from a particular culture, and the behavior that the individual portrayed was very offensive and annoying to me. The person kept on explaining how people who come from our culture are weak and cannot do any job as they keep complaining that they are tired and that many of them lack the skills and knowledge of conducting different tasks. The kept saying that many people from our culture do not understand simple instruction and he attributed that to the incompetency level of people from our culture. It was challenging for the person and me to strike a deal since I was buying some goods from him and failure to that the person said that I was a fool just like people from my culture…………APA 676 words
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