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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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Page 1: What is culture? What is explicit culture? What is implicit culture? Cultural literacy Cross-cultural literacy Multi-cultural literacy Global literacy

What is culture?What is explicit culture?What is implicit culture?

Cultural literacyCross-cultural literacyMulti-cultural literacyGlobal literacy

Page 2: What is culture? What is explicit culture? What is implicit culture? Cultural literacy Cross-cultural literacy Multi-cultural literacy Global literacy

What is culture?•Culture can be defined as a shared belief, shared belief,

customs, way of life, value systems, customs, way of life, value systems, language and the way of communication in language and the way of communication in a particular group or country. a particular group or country. (definition from (definition from cultural anthropology) cultural anthropology)

•What are explicit cultureexplicit culture and implicit implicit cultureculture?

•Culture is a dynamic process of solving a dynamic process of solving human problems and these problems come human problems and these problems come to us as dilemmasto us as dilemmas. “Dilemma” comes from the Greek word meaning “ two propositions”

(Trompenaars, 1998)

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Page 3: What is culture? What is explicit culture? What is implicit culture? Cultural literacy Cross-cultural literacy Multi-cultural literacy Global literacy

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)

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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.