What is culture?
What is explicit culture?
What is implicit culture?
Cultural literacy
Cross-cultural literacy
Multi-cultural literacy
Global literacy
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What is culture?
2016/3/14
• 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 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)
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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
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strength.