What i've learned from Intercultural Communication

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

I have an exam for my intercultural communication class in two days and it consists of essays of what we have learned over the last few weeks. I was reading the book about resocialization back into my home culture and i really liked what it had to say about returning to your home so i though i would write it here.

Understanding Intercultural Communication by Ting-Tooney and Chung
Chapter 5 What is culture Shock?

There are individuals who when they return to their home culture they "are the ones who act as agents of change in their home cultures. They mindfully integrate their new learning experience abroad with what is positive in their own culture. They apply multidimensional thinking, enriched emotional intelligence, and diverse angles to solve problems or to instigate change for a truly inclusive learning organization. Transformers are the change agents who bring home with them a wealth of personal and cultural treasures to share, actively and responsibly, with family and friends. They do so with interpersonally sensitive skills-something they have learned in the foreign environment. They have no fears of acting or being percieved as "different". They are comfortable in experienceing the identity double-swing process. They are compassionate and committed than before about social injustice issues and human rights issues on a global scale. These indivuduals have acuired and are always in the process of acquring mindfulness, compassion and wisdom."


I really liked reading about this, because it all seems like such a positive outcome to my time i am spending over here. I am excited to see what God has in store for me and how he will use me in other ways from my experience in Sweden.
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