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Gain Cross Cultural Awareness Being a tourist is not the only way to travel. By getting involved with the locals you gain a lot more insight and different experiences. Add cross cultural experience and social skills to your CV. Join Thai-Experience.org to make a difference, find new friends and have your life changed by your new experiences. What is cross cultural awareness? Cultural Awareness is “developing sensitivity and understanding of another ethnic group. This usually involves internal changes in terms of attitudes and values. Awareness and sensitivity also refer to the qualities of openness and flexibility that people develop in relation to others. Cultural awareness must be supplemented with cultural knowledge …” (Diane L. Adams (Ed.), Health issues for women of color: A cultural diversity perspective, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 1995) So what does it take to get cross cultural awareness? First you have to understand yourself, your cultural background you are coming from. This is not so easy if you never spend time in a different culture. You take everything you grow up with, all the values, the stories, the history, the do’s and don’t for granted and normal. This is you frame of reference, your starting point when heading out to discover a different culture, try to identify your patterns of behaviour and beliefs. Then you realize the differences. If you manage to keep an open mind, and not judge immediatly, you will be able to see the positive and negative sides on both concepts. This is what you should aim at. And then take the best part from both and try to integrate it into your life. While abroad or dealing with people from a different culture keep the differences in mind and try to act accordingly. Not an easy task and it might take some practise, especially if some values are contradicting and your own ones very important to you. Why is cultural awareness so important? Let me just give you an example: You design an ad campain for eyeglasses and think that pictures showing cute animals wearing your eyeglasses would be a good idea as so many people in western countries are fond of animals and an animal always transports a good feeling. – Not so in Thailand, were this campain just failed, because for Thais animals are a lower life form and people will wear what they are wearing. As a traveller cultural awareness is equally important if you want to discover a country and not only see the tourist spots where money matters and the locals are patient with you because you finance their income. It starts with knowing the most important do’s and don’ts, interest in the different culture and the locals around you. Watch and learn from them and try to stay open and cross cultural awareness will come. Volunteering abroad gives you the great opportunity to learn and practise cross cultural awareness. You will get an introduction into the culture and have other volunteers from different countries around you. You are all in the same situation of being in a different culture. But once you start comparing your impressions with others and not just stop at stereotypes, you soon will learn much more about their cultures and your own as well. And you will no longer take what you grow up with for granted. You will have a lot of fun and gain valuable skills. In a global economy cross cultural awareness becomes more and more important. Add this valuable skill to your CV by joining us as a volunteer. Share this: Twitter | StumbleUpon | Facebook | Delicious | digg | reddit | buzz
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Gnóthachan Tras Feasacht Chultúrtha Ní Bheith turasóireachta an bealach amháin chun taisteal. Ag dul i gceist le muintir na háite leat a fháil léargas a lán níos mó agus taithí éagsúla. Cuir tras taithí cultúrtha agus scileanna sóisialta le do CV. Member Téalainnis-Experience.org chun difríocht a dhéanamh, teacht ar chairde nua agus tá do shaol athrú do thaithí nua. Cad é feasacht chultúrtha tras? Tá Feasacht Chultúrtha "a fhorbairt íogaireacht agus tuiscint ar ghrúpa eile eitneach. I gceist leis seo de ghnáth athruithe inmheánacha ó thaobh dearcaidh agus luachanna. Feasacht agus íogaireacht a tharchur freisin maidir le cáilíochtaí na hoscailteachta agus solúbthacht a fhorbairt do dhaoine i ndáil le daoine eile. Ní mór feasacht chultúrtha a fhorlíonadh le heolas cultúrtha ... "(Diane L. Adams (eag.), saincheisteanna sláinte do mhná de dath: Peirspictíocht éagsúlacht chultúrtha, Thousand Oaks, Foilseacháin SAGE, 1995) Mar sin, cad é a ghlacadh chun a fháil feasacht chultúrtha tras? An Chéad bhfuil tú chun tuiscint a fháil duit féin, do chúlra cultúrtha a bhfuil tú ag teacht as. Ní hé seo an éasca sin riamh má tá tú am a chaitheamh i gcultúr difriúil. Leat a chur rud tú ag fás suas leis, na luachanna, na scéalta, an stair, an le déanamh agus nach talamh slán agus gnáth. Tá sé seo leat fhráma tagartha, do phointe tosaigh nuair ag dul amach le fáil amach le cultúr difriúil, déan iarracht a aithint do patrúin iompraíochta agus creidimh. Ansin realize tú na difríochtaí. Má tá tú a bhainistiú a choinneáil ar aigne oscailte, agus ní breitheamh immediatly, beidh tú in ann a fheiceáil ar an taobh dearfach agus diúltach ar an dá coincheapa. Tá sé seo cad ba cheart duit d'aidhm ag. Agus ansin an chuid is fearr ón dá agus iarracht a chomhtháthú isteach i do shaol. Cé thar lear nó ag déileáil le daoine ó chultúir éagsúla a choinneáil ar na difríochtaí i gcuimhne agus iarracht a dhéanamh gníomhú dá réir. Ní tasc éasca agus d'fhéadfadh sé a ghlacadh roinnt cleachtas, go háirithe má tá roinnt luachanna bhréagnú agus do na cinn féin an-tábhachtach a thabhairt duit. Cén fáth go bhfuil feasacht chultúrtha chomh tábhachtach sin? Lig dom a thabhairt ach tú sampla: Tá tú a dhearadh campain ad do eyeglasses agus smaoineamh go mbeadh pictiúir a léiríonn ainmhithe gleoite ag caitheamh do eyeglasses a bheith ina smaoineamh maith mar go bhfuil an oiread sin daoine i dtíortha an iarthair Fond na n-ainmhithe agus ainmhí iompraíonn i gcónaí le mothú go maith. - Nach amhlaidh sa Téalainn, bhí theip ar an campain ach, mar gheall ar d'ainmhithe Thais tá foirm saol níos ísle agus beidh daoine a chaitheamh cad tá siad ag caitheamh. Toisc go bhfuil feasacht chultúrtha lucht siúil chomh tábhachtach céanna más mian leat a fháil amach tír agus ní hamháin na spotaí turasóireachta ina bhfuil cúrsaí airgid agus muintir na háite othair a bhfuil tú mar tú a mhaoiniú a n-ioncam a fheiceáil. Tosaíonn sé le fhios agam an a dhéanamh ar is tábhachtaí agus don'ts, suim sa chultúr éagsúla agus muintir na háite thart timpeall ort. Féach agus foghlaim uathu agus iarracht a dhéanamh fanacht ar oscailt agus tras beidh feasacht chultúrtha teacht. Obair dheonach thar lear Tugann tú an deis iontach a fhoghlaim agus a chleachtadh feasacht chultúrtha trasteorann. Gheobhaidh tú a thabhairt isteach sa chultúr agus oibrithe deonacha eile ó thíortha éagsúla ar fud a bheith agat. Tá tú go léir sa staid chéanna a bheith i gcultúr difriúil. Ach nuair a thosaíonn tú i gcomparáid do imprisean le daoine eile agus ní stop a chur díreach ag steiréitíopaí, beidh tú ag foghlaim go luath i bhfad níos mó faoi a gcultúr agus do chuid féin chomh maith. Agus beidh tú a thuilleadh a ghlacadh cad tú ag fás suas leis a dheonaítear. Beidh tú ag a lán de spraoi agus scileanna luachmhar a fháil. I ngeilleagar domhanda a thiocfaidh tras feasacht chultúrtha níos mó agus níos tábhachtaí. An scil luachmhar Cuir le do CV bheith linn mar oibrí deonach .Comhroinn é seo: Twitter | StumbleUpon | Facebook | Delicious | digg | reddit | Buzz