Question

World Cultural Perspective Outline

Competency 1 - Develop cultural self-awareness and other-culture awareness.

Identify opportunities to gather information about a culture.

Competency 2 - Demonstrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes to increase intercultural competence.

Identify resources that explain the impact of multicultural characteristics on personal interactions.

Competency 3 - Analyze how nonverbal communication (body language) influences intercultural communication.

Identify resources about nonverbal communication that extend and enhance knowledge of cross-cultural interactions.

For this assignment, prepare for your World Cultural Perspective paper by completing the following:

Provide an update on your research into your selected culture, and share opportunities you have had to gather information about the culture, including opportunities to interact with members of the culture. This might include conducting informal interviews with members of the culture, viewing media presentations and Web sites, and reading books and articles.

Provide a list of at least three resources that you have found related to the following. Your resources may include interviews, Web sites, scholarly articles, media, and books that focus on the aspects of the culture you have chosen to study. Cite all references in APA format.

The social issues, tendencies, and trends of a chosen culture.

Nonverbal communication within your selected culture and how it affects personal interactions across cultures.

Other cultural differences that affect personal interactions and communication across cultures.

Prepare an outline of your paper.

Answer 1

In the context of the given question,

1. A culture can be defined simply as a set of values, beliefs, virtues and traditions that help identify an individual(s) or a personality type from a different perspective.

To answer this question, I will choose the example of Australian culture to elaborate my points. Australia was once inhabited by the original custodians of this land, called the Aboriginals.

These people designed and developed the Australian art, food, and living culture which is still alive today. These group of people developed the political landscape of the country, and invited the migrants from other countries to build their technological and physical infrastructure. These migrants further influenced the Australian culture with their home cultures, and that is why Australia is a highly multicultural country today.

Due to this cross cultural relationship, Australia's trade and commerce, financial, technology and health industries have been revamped and are one of the best in the world today.

References:

Kennedy, G. A. (1998). Comparative rhetoric: An historical and cross-cultural introduction (p. 157). New York: Oxford University Press.

Kirmayer, L., Simpson, C., & Cargo, M. (2003). Healing traditions: Culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Australasian Psychiatry, 11(sup1), S15-S23.

Wark, M. (1999). Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace the Light on the Hill in a Postmodern World.

Ison, R., & Russell, D. (Eds.). (2007). Agricultural extension and rural development: breaking out of knowledge transfer traditions. Cambridge University Press.

Hodge, B., & Mishra, V. (1991). Dark side of the dream: Australian literature and the postcolonial mind. Allen & Unwin.