INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY

INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY

By Carlos Nuñez

Hi readers!

Today we want to share with you a book that we find especially interesting and that it has a lot of meaning for us. This book is called Intercultural Sensitivity and it is written by Carlos Nuñez. Some of the members of this blog read this book while being on their Erasmus Exchange and found it really illuminating and a great help. For this reason, we wanted to show it to you and maybe help you make your intercultural experiences smoother.

This book helps people learn how to coop with culturally diverse environments. The book is based in the idea that our world is more globalized every day and that therefore we need to develop intercultural sensitivity in order to improve communication with people from different backgrounds. The aim of this book is to help us understand better what people of other cultures might feel and think, so we can avoid unpleasant situations. It shows us that we can achieve this by having cultural empathy, being able to place ourselves in the norms and values system of the other culture and behaving in accordance. Seeing the world from other culture’s glasses. This is just a glimpse of everything the book illustrates us.

We highly recommend everyone to read Intercultural Sensitivity because it makes you way more tolerant than you could have already been before. We especially recommend it to those who are about to live abroad and are going to surround themselves with people from all over the globe. We say this because this book is the perfect illustration of the phases you are going to go through and what you are going to experiment. It will also help you to get rid of your prejudices.

We can say from our experience that it is easy to relate to what the book says. In addition, everything is really nicely explained and exemplified, it is easy to follow. To conclude we would like to add some inspiring quotes from the book.

“Some non-verbal communication aspects can cause mistrust in multicultural groups.”

“Stereotyping in multicultural teams is another source of stress.”

“The growth in intercultural sensitivity is not a rigid, linear process.”

Teacheers team 😊