Intercultural competence

5 important questions on Intercultural competence

What is the description of the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)?

The DMIX continuum extends from ethnocentrism (own culture is central) to ethnorelativism (cultural seen in context).

  1. Denial = own culture is the real one
  2. Defense = own culture is the best way
  3. Minimization = other cultures similar to own culture
  4. Acceptance = curious and respectful to other cultures
  5. Adaptation = looking through eyes of other cultures
  6. Integration = move in and out different cultural world views

What is the description of the Intercultural Competence Model (Spitzberg & Cupach, 1984)?

  • Knowledge/cognitive: level of cultural knowledge
  • Psychomotor/behaviour features: verbal and nonverbal performance
  • Situational features: actual context in which intercultural communication occurs
  • Affective/motivational features: emotional aspects of an individual in a communication situation: fear, anger, stress etc.

What are the psychological barriers to intercultural communication?

  • Stereotyping: negative or positive judgement to members of a group.
  • Racism: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
  • Anxiety: lack of confidence, discomfort with cultural norms
  • Assuming similarities
  • Ethnocentrism
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What were the results of Krueger (1996) about racism between black and white people?

Results supported 3 sets of predictions derived from a projection model of stereotyping.

  1. First, participants' personal beliefs predicted their ratings of cultural stereotypes even when the group averages of personal beliefs and cultural stereotypes were statistically controlled.
  2. Second, interrater agreement in stereotype ratings was substantial for both rating tasks.
  3. Third, members of both groups underestimated how favorably their own group was rated by members of their respective out-group.

What are three types of racism?

  1. Internalized racism
  2. Interpersonalracism   
  3. Systemicracism

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