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.
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 […]
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 […]
There is an organization in Winnipeg - Acorn Gardens. They have a project to provide creative arts program for trauma and war-affected children and youth.
Recently, they recruited future volunteers and employees for an upcoming pilot project and organized a training for them. I had to honour to be invited to hold a cross-cultural communication workshop. […]
Yes, I know, nobody has ever been born as “bilingual” or “bicultural”. However, if a child is born in a crosscultural marriage, i.e. the parents are from different cultural and lingusitic background - will have have much better chances to become bilingual than others.
Recently I was browsing language related sites through StumbleUpon and came across […]
Tomorrow I will be at an all day conference about war affected children. It is organized by the Manitoba School Counsellors’ Association.
Finally, somebody woke up in Winnipeg and realized the necessity to deal with the many issues related to immigrants and refugees and their settlement in a totally new world, new culture. More than […]
