Travelling to more places and experiencing how people of different cultures live, learning about the history of a place and getting to know people from different backgrounds, both makes you feel humble and also makes you see the similarities rather than the differences
between people from different cultural backgrounds.
In the background questionnaire, students will be asked to report how familiar they are with global issues; how developed their linguistic and communication skills are; to what extent they hold certain attitudes, such as respect
for people from different cultural backgrounds; and what opportunities they have at school to develop global competence.
Interracial date has in the past really developed, two decades due to the fact that the younger generations had the chance to grow in multicultural communities, and making friends so that they interact
with people from different cultural backgrounds.
The questionnaire will evaluate how familiar students are with global issues, how developed their linguistic and communication skills are, to what extent they respect
people from different cultural backgrounds, and the opportunities they currently have in their schools to develop global competencies.
«This isn't necessarily bad until you get into a world like ours where you are constantly interacting with
people from different cultural backgrounds and ideological orientations,» she says.
However, bias against any group whether it is women or
people from a different cultural background or sexual orientation is often unconscious and requires educating ourselves about our hidden beliefs and how this belief shows up in our actions.
Graduates today should take a proactive approach to developing cross-cultural skills, taking advantage of international transfers or teaming up with
people from a different cultural background.
Intercultural competence can be defined in lots of different ways, but in this series of videos it means that an individual or a school has the ability to understand, interact, and communicate effectively and sensitively with
people from different cultural backgrounds.