Question

If you are going to use the following three strategies to gradually improve your intercultural exploration competency in your daily life, how do they help you improve your intercultural exploration competency? Please give examples and explanations.

1. Read international news every day

2. Watching foreign movies

3.Learn to cook foreign dishes

Answer 1

1) Read International news : Reading international news everyday will make me aware about the events taking place in different corners of the world and the issues prevailing around the globe. Reading international news will also help me in building awareness about the various norms, values, principles and rules followed by specific groups of people or nations and their way of reacting to situations or approach used for solving these issues. . Thus making me familiar about specific cultures , their decision making styles, responsiveness towards certain issues etc. This will help me enhancing my intercultural exploration competency as I will be more confident and aware while interacting with them which will build trust.

2) Watching Foreign Movies : Movies are not just a source of entertainment or story, but they tend to reflect on the moral values, traditions, belief system, culture, etc of a particular country. Therefore watching foreign movies will make me cognizant about all these patterns and values thus helping to stay prepared for responding to people from diverse backgrounds and cultures according to what these movies reflect as appropriate and refraining from using words or actions which are considered inappropriate in their cultures kr traditions. It will help to build a strong bond between them.

Learn to cook foreign dishes : Possessing knowledge, information or skills which resonates with foreign cultures such as learning to cook food they prefer or like and presenting it to them will act as a breakthrough attempt to know them better and to win their trust. Therefore learning to cook foreigners dishes will also help me in creating understanding about their preferences and knowing them better.

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