• reflection and development of cultural competence
  Cultural competence
  Cultural competence refers to an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures, particularly in the context of human resources, non-profit organizations, and government agencies whose employees work with persons from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds.Cultural competence...
  
  
• analyzing different cultural patterns in the world
• finding strategies for adapting
• solving problems in intercultural communication
  Intercultural communication
  Intercultural communication is a form of global communication. It is used to describe the wide range of communication problems that naturally appear within an organization made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds. Intercultural communication is...
  
  
• teaching social skills
  Social skills
  A social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization...
  
   to reduce cultural misunderstandings
• studying the lifelong impact of youth and other exchange
  Student exchange program
  A student exchange program generally could be defined as a program where students from secondary school or university choose to study abroad in partner institutions...
  
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See also

• Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)
• Cross-cultural
  Cross-cultural
  cross-cultural may refer to*cross-cultural studies, a comparative tendency in various fields of cultural analysis*cross-cultural communication, a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate...
  
  
• Cultural assimilation
  Cultural assimilation
  Cultural assimilation is a socio-political response to demographic multi-ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants and various ethnic groups who have settled in a new land. New...
  
  
• Cultural diversity
  Cultural diversity
  Cultural diversity is having different cultures respect each other's differences. It could also mean the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole...
  
  
• Ethnocentrism
  Ethnocentrism
  Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with...
  
  
• Human fit
• Intercultural competence
  Intercultural competence
  Intercultural competence is the ability of successful communication with people of other cultures.A person who is interculturally competent captures and understands, in interaction with people from foreign cultures, their specific concepts in perception, thinking, feeling and acting...
  
  
• Interculturality
  Interculturality
  The term interculturality refers to any aspect of any interaction between any cultures.-Description:A culture is understood as a group of people with a common identity that is based on common attributes, attitudes, practices and so on...
  
  
• Metacommunicative competence
  Metacommunicative competence
  Metacommunicative competence is the ability to intervene within difficult conversations and to correct communication problems by utilizing the different ways of practical communication:...
  
  
• Racial integration
  Racial integration
  Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation . In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely...
  
  
• Transculturation
  Transculturation
  Transculturation is a term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures....
  
  
• Intercambio

External links

• Stories about Intercultural Experiences and Cultural Exchange Compiled by The Glimpse Foundation
• CICB Center of Intercultural Competence