Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Culture Quote of the Day - Cultural Intelligence

“Cultural intelligence is the ability to engage in a set of behaviors that uses skills (i.e., language or interpersonal skills) and qualities (e.g., tolerance for ambiguity, flexibility) that are tuned appropriately to the culture-based values and attitudes of the people with whom one interacts.”

“Successful interaction with people from other cultures is the heart of cultural intelligence. Knowing facts about another culture is helpful, but your approach can’t be only academic or intellectual; you need to know how to interact successfully with people.”
Brooks Peterson, Cultural Intelligence

Cultural intelligence would be at the heart of moving into / living in the realm of what Bennett (DMIS) refers to as ethnorelativism, i.e., the ability to have a positive experience of and adaptation to cultural difference.

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