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Today I will focus on the issue of cultural understanding. With the increasing globalization,the world becomes really small nowadays. As a member of thi globe,we get more chances to contact foreign cultures. Then if we want to understand a foreign culture very well,what should we do? And what kinds of process will we experience before we achieve that goal? The answer is not very difficult to imagine. Just like learning a language,developing cultural understanding occurs step by step over time. Development of cultural consicousness is a process that starts at the stage of no understanding and moves,in best case, to the stage of true empathy and cultural respect. So in order to make a clearer explanation about the process ,the five stages of cultural understanding are presented here. Stage One:No understanding. This level involves no awareness of the new culture. The point is quite easy to see. For a person who has few chances to get contact with other cultures,a new one sometimes might as well be like something from an unknown planet in outer space. The person does not know anyone from the culture and has encontered few,if any,besic facts about the culture. So ,naturally,the person certainly has no way to understand that culture at all. |
