What is Intercultural Competence?
Intercultural competence is the ability to respect, value
and use –in one’s own and other’s- cultural conditions in perceiving, judging, feeling and acting with the aim of
creating mutual adaptation, tolerance of incompatibilities.
Warm-up questions
Have you ever been in an
interaction from a person from a different culture?
Did you notice any
cultural differences between your country and other countries?
Do you think that it is a
must to know about different cultures in
order to communicate with people from different cultures?
Watch the video about the
cultural differences about Chinese and American
people and try to fill in the blanks in the
following statements.
1-Chinese people call a
person with honorifics such as “madam” and “sir” when this person is much more…………..
2- American people call a
person directly with his or her …………………..
3- Chinese people placed
importance to group ………………
4- ……………….. people are shy
and have individual modesty.
