TASK:
Please read from p. 87- 99.
This time your reading is getting more important. We are arriving at the term "Cultural Intelligence." We'll try the define the term but based on your own reading and also try to get one best intelligence or multiple intelligence theory.
In addition, see the table on page 96, read the item in the table carefully and try to rank yourself.
Instructor
MY ANSWER:
Cultural intelligence is ability to use skills and qualities appropriately when you interact with someone base on culture side. It is not only something that we had but also it could be ability to learn, understand, and think about everything that faced to us by cultural approach.
I agree with Howard Gardner, psychologist, about 'there is more than one way to be smart'. Everyone has thing that they are expert in. the carpenter maybe will not has the same musical intelligence with the musician and vice versa.
The multiple intelligence categories of Gardner's are really important, but it is impossible to have that various categories at once at one person. We need a process and someone maybe will get a good score in two or three categories. However, we must know and give our best effort to reach at least four things that are mention by Gardner:
- Speak a bit of their language, although just how to introduce your self or say hello, it shows our interest.
- Know how closely to stand (and other nonverbal behavior), to make our partner comfort and avoid unpleasant behavior.
- Know about your own culture style, it is important because how could you know another's and omit your own.
- Know how your cultural style meshes with those of others, it makes your relation closer.
After ranking my self, I think I need improvement at some points, such as comfort with uncertainty, ability to trust when dealing with the unfamiliar, and extroversion, creativity.
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