Asmt #11

The question for this assignment is, how do you relate cross culturally on a local, national, and international bases. First off I should explain that cross culture does not have to be a difference in race, class, or continent. It is the difference between two peoples beliefs, values, and feelings, which lead to their decisions, and then behaviors. I myself am one that uses my beliefs to form and to guard strongest my values. My feeling and others feeling normally take a back seat until I have a greater understand of the others person or my values are being treated. This is one of my greatest benefits and weaknesses, because of this I can stay clear headed and calm, I can also take in more information to better assist in my understandings. The downside is I can easily upset someone else, seem to be confident or cruel to others. But how do you or I relate to cross cultural. Easy, stop assuming, listen before we speak, and find or learn a common ground. Relationships are key to cross cultural understanding. On a local level you are given more time, mostly because it is relating to what is around you and most of the time what is around you is constant and tedious. But have you really crossed into another culture or are we staying in are comfort zone and only reaching out and watching what we want to see. Do you really know all the culture that is around you. Also we can branch out by going a farther distance taking enough time to view what is around us without needing to take great leaps in learning a different language or culture extremely different from are own by traveling to a different state and only needing to know the new changes in location. While the last and hardest challenge is cross culture international. Going to a different location and complete different background. Now I know England speaks the same language and has much of the same beliefs and values. But how they are raised and go about useing those feelings, beliefs, and values can be to big gap to handle. I understand that the family next door can be just as hard to understand. But the time and effort it takes to discover or learn what is already around you verses the distance and difference of what must be given time and effort to learn and use that learning to relate and understand and show who God is.