Cross-Cultural Training Is Training for Cross-Cultural Communication and Experiences. Preparing People to Work Outside Their Native Country (Sojourner Training) Is One Aim of Cross-Cultural Training; for Example, Peace

Intercultural competence

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Intercultural competence is the ability of successful communication with people of other cultures.

A person who is interculturally competent captures and understands, in interaction with people from foreign cultures, their specific concepts in perception, thinking, feeling and acting. Earlier experiences are considered, free from prejudices; there is an interest and motivation to continue learning.

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• 1 Cross-cultural competence

• 2 Basics

• 3 Typical examples of cultural differences

• 4 Requirements

• 5 Cultural differences

• 6 Assessment

o 6.1 Assessment instruments

• 7 Criticisms

• 8 See also

• 9 References

[edit] Cross-cultural competence

Cross-cultural competence (3C), another term for inter-cultural competence, has generated its own share of contradictory and confusing definitions, due to the wide variety of academic approaches and professional fields attempting to achieve it for their own ends. One author identified no fewer than eleven different terms with some equivalence to 3C: cultural savvy, astuteness, appreciation, literacy or fluency, adaptability, terrain, expertise, competency, awareness, intelligence, and understanding[1]. Organizations from fields as diverse as business, health care, government security and developmental aid agencies, academia, and non-governmental organizations have all sought to leverage 3C in one guise or another, often with poor results due to a lack of rigorous study of the phenomenon and reliance on “common sense” approaches based on the culture developing the 3C models in the first place [1]. The U.S. Army Research Institute, which is currently engaged in a study of the...