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Cross-Cultural Communication skills is a relatively new term, referring to the ability to recognize cultural differences and similarities when dealing with someone from another culture and ability to recognize features of own behavior which are affected by culture.

 



Archive for November, 2007

The test of the cross-cultural marriage

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I live in a “cross-cultural” relationship: we both were born outside of Canada, we met here and as lingua franca we speak English at home although none of us is a native English-speaker. You could call it an intercultural marriage or a multilingual marriage — doesn’t matter. The point is that you need to express […]

The multicultural ghetto

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Somebody at Winnipeg Free Press must be reading my posts and comments here :)
I am preaching in this blog for a long time about the dangers of creating “cultural” ghettoes - thanks to the the multicultural policies.
A few days ago the Editorial in WFP was saying the same:
Beyond the moral outrage that Canadians should feel […]