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Can you identify an interculturally incompetent person, when you meet one? It’s likely that you will provide striking examples from your own other’s experience.

On the other hand, when asked to describe an intercultural competent person, anecdotes won’t perhaps occur to you as quickly.

Explaining in brief what Intercultural Competence mans for you might prove a challenge. Why is this so?

Most definitions of Intercultural Competence (IC) agree that it is more than just knowledge of cultural differences – although knowledge is definitely an important part of it – and also more than a question of attitude – although hertain personality traits may be very helpful. In other words IC is usually seen as a hybrid construct which manifests itself in social interaction.

In other words: what I do and what I say, and how, when and where I do and say it, is what counts.

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