How Do We React to Cultural Difference?
This chapter focuses on exploring the barriers to intercultural competence. While the positive aspects of culture are discussed throughout this book, theories which explain the development of stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination will be explored al
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Intercultural Competence for College and University Students A Global Guide for Employability and Social Change
Intercultural Competence for College and University Students
Caprice Lantz-Deaton Irina Golubeva •
Intercultural Competence for College and University Students A Global Guide for Employability and Social Change
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Caprice Lantz-Deaton Asheville, NC, USA
Irina Golubeva Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-57445-1 ISBN 978-3-030-57446-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57446-8
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Preface
This book is a practical guide focusing upon the topic of intercultural competence which is a collection of values, knowledge, skills, and attitudes sorely needed in our increasingly globalized world. It is aimed at college and university students as we see them as instruments through which the world might be changed for the better. This book addresses and links together three topics that we believe to be extremely important yet treated relatively separately in the current literature: first, the topic of increasing the potential for peace and po
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