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Part 1
Answer the following questions with a minimum 150 word response (see further directions at the bottom of the page):
- Are you able to identify your cultural biases and what has influenced them?
- Do you spend time with people that have different life experiences than you? Provide an example of what you have learned from that person regarding their history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
- How do you plan to learn more about other cultures?
Part 2
Consider how you would rate yourself on the following areas listed in the table below. For each item in the first column, choose a rating (1, 2, 3, or 4) for yourself and provide a few sentences of why you feel the rating is appropriate. See further directions below the table. If it's hard to see the text on the table below, you can find it here: Link to Intercultural Fluency Table
The Intercultural Fluency Table
Valuing, respecting, and learning from people with diverse backgrounds (e.g., ability, age, culture, economic status, educational level, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation). The individuals demonstrate, openness, inclusiveness, sensitivity, and the ability to interact respectfully with all people and understand individuals' differences (www.wcupa.edu)
| Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge: Cultural Self-awareness |
Minimal awareness of own cultural rules and biases (even those shared with own cultural group(s)) (e.g. uncomfortable with identifying possible cultural differences with others.) | Identified own cultural rules and biases (e.g. with a strong preference for those rules shared with own cultural group and seeks the same in others.) | Recofnizes new perspectives about ouwn cultural rules and biases (e.g. not looking for sameness; comfortable with the complexities that new perspectives offer.) | Articulates insights into own cultural rules and biases (e.g. seeking complexity; aware of how own experiences have shaped these rules, and how to recognize and respond to cultural biases, resulting in a shift in self-description.) |
| Knowledge: knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks |
Demonstrates surface understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs, and practices. | Demonstrates partial understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. | Demonstrates adequate understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to it's history, values, policies, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. | Demonstrates sophisticated understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. |
| Skills: Empathy |
View the experience of others but does so through own cultural worldview. | Identifies components of other cultural perspectives but responds in all situations with own worldview. | Recognizes intellectual and emotional dimensions of more than one worldview and sometimes uses more than one worldview in interactions. | Interprets intercultural experiences from the perspectives of own and more than one worldview and demonstrates ability to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group. |
| Skills: Verbal and nonverbal communication |
Minimal level of understanding of cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication; is unable to negotiate a shared understanding. | Identified some cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication and is aware that misunderstandings can occur based on those differences but is still unable to negotiate a shared understanding. | Recognizes and participates in cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication and begins to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences. | Articulates a complex understanding of cultural differences in verbal and nonverbal communication (e.g., demonstrates understanding of the degree to which people use physical contact while communicating in different cultures or use direct/indirect and explicit/impolicit meanings) and is able to skillfully negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences. |
| Attitudes: Curiosity |
Minimal interest in learning more about other cultures. | Asks simple or surface questions about other cultures. | Asks deeper questions about other cutlrues and seeks out answers to these questions. | Asks complex questions about other cultures, seeks out and articultes answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives. |
| Attitudes: Openness |
Receptive to interacting with culturally different others. Has difficulty suspending any judgment in interactions with culturally different others, but is unaware of own judgment. | Expresses openness to most, if not all interactions with culturally different others. Has difficulty suspending any judgment in interactions with culturally different others, and is aware of own judgment and expresses a willingness to change. | Begins to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others. Begins to suspend judgement in valuing interactions with culturally different others. | Initiaties and develops interactions with culturally different others. Suspends judgement in valuing interactions with culturally different others. |
Format your assignment submission as follows:
Part 1
List the first question above, provide the 150 word minimum response.
List the second question above, provide the 150 word minimum response.
List the third question above, provide the 150 word minimum response.
Part 2
List the header of the first row in the table (e.g. Cultural Self Awareness) then the rating (e.g. 2) then provide 1-4 sentences of why you've rated yourself at that level.
So on and so forth, for all 6 rows of the table.
An example for Part 2:
Cultural Self-Awareness = 2. I grew up in Central Pennsylvania on a diary farm with 4-H friends and family. I wasn't exposed to anyone "different" than me, meaning there was no diversity as it relates to ethnicity, culture, race, religion, sexual orientation. My cultural rules were never "challenged" meaning, there were no alternatives introduced to me until I was at college. Even now, although I've been acclimated to other ways of life, and now understand that you cannot assume you know anything about any person based on looks and limited knowledge, I still occasionally catch myself (embarrassingly), entering a conversation with someone new with pre-conceived ideas of "who" they may be.
Submit as a word document to the dropbox for Lesson 12.