Cultural competence

In face-to-face interactions, our style of communication includes both verbal and nonverbal cues. Author, B. Strong (2014), reports: “Even when you are not talking, you communicate by your silence (e.g., an awkward silence, a hostile silence, or a tender silence) (Strong, 2014, p. 232).” On the other hand, phone conversations, online and electronic interactions are restricted only to verbal communication through written words. Effectively, there are some situations in which choosing a…

CONCEPT 3 CONCEPT OF COMMUNICATION 3.0 INTRODUCTION/IDENTIFICATION OF CONCEPT COMMUNICATION: The tool that allows us to share our opinions, thoughts and feelings with others. Communication could be verbal using a spoken language, it could be written as text on paper or SMS, or it could be through body language and eye contact. The purpose of communication is essentially for sharing of opinions and thoughts. It is the process of changing information between entities,…

Brianne has experienced a smooth transition to the kindergarten program as a first-year student. She has demonstrated an ability to quickly adjust and learn the routines and schedules within our classroom. For example, Brianne is confident when entering our classroom in the morning, she changes her shoes, gets her Mr. Zippy, and finds her rock with her name when signing in. This responsibility that Brianne shows at the beginning of the day, is also demonstrated to/for / against any given time…

Every day, we communicate with people all the time. The communications always occurred with verbal and non-verbally. It is surprising how most people did not realize the messages we get from most others is by non-verbally. Non-verbal communication includes our body movements, appearance, touch and etc… Basically, everything we do has some kinds of non-verbal communication. The perfect demonstration of non-verbal communication is the City light, a movie with Charlie Chaplin. Here are the three…

another. There have been times where I’ve been at work and people start arguing and ready to fight. A man and his wife was fusing over another guy hitting on his wife. There are different personalities and nonverbal behaviors in this environment. Cultural Nonverbal Cues. Being in this environment almost every day of the week, I notice several nonverbal cues. Some of the nonverbal cues that I noticed in the environment were people whispering and pointing their finger at one another. Some of…

One movie scene that involves nonverbal communication, there scene from "A Few Good Men, " when the Tom Cruise as about to confront the general about the red code he issued. The scene is in court room when Cruise is the prosecuting attorney who just decided he is about get the general to say he issued the command. It is an important scene because the lawyer that Cruise plays could get court marshaled if he incorrectly accuses the general. The scene is full of non-verbal communication. First, he…

literature there is no agreement about the effects of cultural diversity on team performance. What is certain is that the role of multicultural teams has increased a lor in the latest years and multinational companies started to pay great attention on these effects. Generally cultural diversity can affect the team performance in three ways: ● People find easy to work and cooperate with whom shared similar values, attitudes and beliefes according to the cultural similarity theory; ● People tend…

An important competence for intercultural success is to understand and accept cultural differences. Bennett’s (1986) Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) demonstrates the stages of interpretations of cultural difference. Figure 1. DMIS (Bennett, 1986) Hammer et al. (2003) explains that the ethnocentric stages are ‘avoiding cultural difference’ and ethnorelative stages are ‘seeking cultural difference’ and accepting it. When group members are at different stages of the DMIS…

than making the quick trip from Maine to Canada, this will be my first time outside of America. I have made several goals for myself while abroad, with the overall goal of expanding my cultural horizons. I also have goals for developing my cultural awareness beyond my college years, as I hope to integrate my cultural education and my passion for psychology. Furthermore, I plan to teach my future children to be aware of racial issues, to be culturally tolerant, and to active advocates for…

Cultural identity is usually inferred on the basis of one’s sense of the act and the stance meanings. Of course, although some acts and stances are closely associated with particular cultural identities, other acts and stances are resources for constructing a wide range of cultural identities. The action is represented by touching, reaching, manipulating, and transforming not only ways of knowing objects, but also fundamental conceptual dimensions of cultural objects (Ochs 1993). It is…