What is culture What is explicit culture What

What is culture? What is explicit culture? What is implicit culture? Cultural literacy Cross-cultural literacy Multi-cultural literacy Global literacy

2 What is culture? 2020/11/2 • Culture can be defined as a shared belief, customs, way of life, value systems, language and the way of communication in a particular group or country. (definition from cultural anthropology) • What are explicit culture and implicit culture? culture • Culture is a dynamic process of solving human problems and these problems come to us as dilemmas “Dilemma” comes from the Greek word meaning “ two propositions” (Trompenaars, 1998)

The component of global literacy • 1 Cultural literacy (basic cultural competence and skills to live in one’s home culture) • 2 Cross-cultural literacy (competence and skills to adjust between one’s home culture and a target culture) • 3 Multi-cultural literacy (cultural sensitivity and skills to live responsibly in cultural diversity, reconciling cultural differences and integrating opposing cultural values in a multicultural and interdependent world) •

• • • The component of global literacy 4 Delicate balance of one’s personal, cultural, national and global identifications and roles (competence to accept and balance pluralistic/multiple identities) 5 Communicative competence in EIL for global communication (communication skills to create a peaceful and equitable symbiosis) 6 Awareness as a global citizen to participate in solving global and human problems (awareness of global village concern for equitable participation and problem-solving competence as a new reframing global concept)

How can we cope with different cultures with an effective strategy for cultural confrontation? • The key answer: awareness • respect • communication • reconciliation from mutually shared • strength.