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Cultural Literacy Skills in Context and Technology - Coggle Diagram
Cultural Literacy Skills in Context and Technology
Multicultural Impact
Multicultural education relates to education an instruction designed for the cultures of several different races in an educational system
Multicultural education acknowledges and incorporates positive racial idiosyncrasies into classroom atmosphere
Multiculturalism
the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviours, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles.
The concept of multiculturalism was widespread since ancient times.
A historical example of multiculturalism was the Habsburg monarchy, which had broken up in 1918 and under whose roof many different ethnic, linguistic and religious groups lived together.
Multicultural literacy refers to the skills involved when uncovering bias in regards to culture, as well as the ability to take different perspectives to gain a more humane perspective.
Benefits of Multicultural
Multiculturalism decrease racial discriminations
Helps promote different cultures to understand one another tradition and practices regardless of their obscenity or offending nature
Challenges of Multicultural
Multiculturalism privileges the good of the certain groups over the common good, thereby likely eroding the common good in favour of minority interests
Multiculturalism undermines the notion of equal individual rights, thereby weakening the political value of equal treatment.
Multiculturalism raises competition between cultural groups vying for recognition
Cross-Cultural Awareness
a good understanding of its own culture will help the individual to understand more the other’s cultures and then to be more successful in cross cultural behavior.
Increasing the ability to behave in intercultural way and improving communication across cultures as the intercultural competence shows consideration for other’s needs and fulfilment of one’s own satisfactions (Gupta & Govindarajan, 2002)
cross-cultural awareness enables the individual to create a self-awareness through which he can identify his own knowledge and cultural values.
importance of cross-cultural awareness
Reduces the consequences of cross-cultural conflict
Decreases the cross-cultural misunderstanding and creates a winning working environment in the workplace.