Building Your Intercultural Competence Discussion 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 (15721631), 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 individuals 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 ap
ply frameworks and tools to self-assess your skills and support
intercultural communication. Answer Preview
.There are various stereotypes in our culture that I have got the opportunity to experience in my personal life. One example of a stereotype is the gender remarks which many women in our culture usually experience. I was raised in a male-dominated society, and I got the chance to personally experience how women in our culture were discriminated against the men. Many women were not allowed to speak where men have, and they were not allowed to eat before their men ate. In one instance my mother cooked food for the family, and she did not want us to eat before our father came home as it was considered a taboo. Another stereotype in our culture that still exists is that all Arabs and Muslim are terrorists this I experience when I was in High School. These selected stereotypes have had effects on intercultural communication due to our culture having negative, i.e., untrue perspective about other people. Through the stereotype that
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