Cultural Competence

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The ability to understand, appreciate, and effectively interact with individuals from diverse cultures.

Cultural awareness: Understanding one's own culture and recognizing differences and similarities among other cultures. This includes acknowledging one's biases and assumptions.
Cultural knowledge: Learning about the history, traditions, and beliefs of different cultures.
Cultural sensitivity: Demonstrating respect and empathy for people from diverse cultures and avoiding stereotypes and generalizations.
Cultural intelligence: The ability to adapt to and work effectively in a cross-cultural environment.
Communication skills: Effectively communicating with people from different cultural backgrounds, including understanding and interpreting nonverbal cues.
Intercultural conflict resolution: Understanding different approaches to conflict and learning strategies for resolving conflicts in a cross-cultural context.
Cultural humility: Recognizing that everyone has something to learn from other cultures and being open to learning and growth.
Cultural identity development: Understanding how cultural background shapes a person's identity and how that identity affects interactions with others.
Stereotyping and prejudice: Understanding the negative impact of stereotyping and prejudice on individuals and society and learning how to avoid them.
Cultural differences in values and norms: Understanding how different cultures have different values, norms, and traditions that may impact interactions with others.
Linguistic Competence: The ability to understand, speak, and write a foreign language.
Attitudinal Competence: The ability to understand and appreciate different cultural attitudes and values.
Behavioral Competence: The ability to act appropriately and respectfully towards people from different cultures.
Cognitive Competence: The ability to understand and interpret different cultural symbols, behaviors, and meanings.
Ethical Competence: The ability to understand and follow ethical principles in cross-cultural encounters.
Emotional Competence: The ability to manage your own emotions and recognize and respond to others' emotions effectively in a cross-cultural setting.
Global Competence: The ability to understand and respond appropriately to different cultural, social, economic, environmental, and political issues around the world.
Intercultural Competence: The ability to communicate effectively and establish positive relationships with people from different cultures.
Intrapersonal Competence: The ability to understand and manage your own culture and identity when interacting with people from other cultures.
Interpersonal Competence: The ability to navigate and negotiate cultural differences in social, professional, and personal relationships.
Mediation Competence: The ability to resolve conflicts and misunderstandings in a cross-cultural setting.
Negotiation Competence: The ability to negotiate effectively with people from different cultures in business or other settings.
Organizational Competence: The ability to develop and implement cultural diversity and inclusion policies in organizations.
Pedagogical Competence: The ability to teach and learn from people from different cultural backgrounds.
Systemic Competence: The ability to question and transform structural inequalities and injustices in society due to cultural differences.
- "Cultural competence, also known as intercultural competence, is a range of cognitive, affective, behavioural, and linguistic skills that lead to effective and appropriate communication with people of other cultures."
- "Intercultural or cross-cultural education are terms used for the training to achieve cultural competence."
- "Effective intercultural communication relates to behaviors that culminate with the accomplishment of the desired goals of the interaction and all parties involved in the situation."
- "Appropriate intercultural communication includes behaviors that suit the expectations of a specific culture, the characteristics of the situation, and the level of the relationship between the parties involved in the situation."