Part I: Observation
Section outline
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Let's start with a simple question: What is intercultural communication?
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Now that we have a better understanding of what intercultural communication is, we want to focus on navigating it. A difficult part of this is avoiding stereotypes and othering. While it is quite natural to differentiate between “my own” and “other people’s” culture, we want to avoid viewing one as “better” than the other or creating hard borders between “us” and “them”.
While reading the following text, focus on the different strategies the three protagonists take at approaching cultural diversity.
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What can we take away from this situation?
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