My new question is ‘How can young people develop cultural competence when they are living abroad?’
Cultural competence is an important skill that can help people to develop meaningful relationships with people of various cultural background.
From the research, I found even people who are living abroad, they may not develop their cultural competence because they need to accept both cultures from their home country and host country.
And there are three ways to develop cultural competence which is have self-awareness, understand people’s worldview, and value and have intervention skills by building cross-cultural bridges.
Social scientists across many disciples cite gaining self-awareness as a first crucial step in developing cultural competence.
I want to help people to build self-awareness regarding their own culture.
So I created Intervention 4 to test if people can enhance self-awareness by understanding their family culture.
References
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