LOCAL AND GLOBAL

COMMUNICATION
IN
MULTICULTURAL SETTING
 LEARNING OUTCOMES

1.Determine culturally - appropriate

terms,expression,and images
(sensitivity,to gender,race,class,etc.)

2.Adopt cultural awareness and sensitivity

in communication of ideas.
 Lesson 3 Outline

1. A World of diversity
2.The Global community
3.Cultural Awareness and sensitivity
• A.

A WORLD OF
DIVERSITY
In our growing, diverse society it’s very important
to have diverse communication skills. The reason
for this is because it brings richness in our
society. Effective communication helps us better
understand a person or situation and enables us
to resolve differences, build trust and respect, and
create environments where creative ideas,
problem solving, affection, and caring
• B.
THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY
*refers to the people or nation of
the world,considered as being
closely connected by modern
telecommunication and as being
economically,socially,and politically
interperdent.
Examples:
*Major offices and some homes
linked with optical fiber system
• *Global multimedia services
*Satellites transmission
•

C. Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity

•

WHAT IS CULTURAL SENSITIVITY?

-Involves accepting those differences without insisting your
own culture is better, or that everyone should do it your way
(Sherman,2018),
• CULTURAL AWARENESS &SENSITVITY GUIDELINESS

1.View human differences as positive and a cause for a celebration

2. Have a clear sense of your own ethnic,cultural and racial identity.
• 3.Be aware that in order to learn about others,you need to understand and be prepared to
share your own culture.
4. Be aware of your discomfort when you encounter diffrences in race,color,religion,sexual
orientation,language and ethnicity.
5.Be aware of the assumptions that you hold about people of culture different from your
own;
6.Be aware of your stereotypes as they arise and develop personal strategies for reducing
the harm that they cause
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THANK YOU !!
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QUIZ TIME
• IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WRITE (T) IF THE SENTENCE IS CORRECT
AND( F) IF IT IS INCORRECT.

____1.A world of diversity describe the people as nations of the world considered as being closely connected by modern
the communications.
____2.Parapak (1995) describe our world as a world of uniformity.
____3. The global community our world as a world of diversity.
____4.Cultural awarenessis knowing are multiple different culture bsed on religion,ethnicity,and nationality.
____5.The cultural sensitivity not accepting those differences without insisting your own culture is better or that
everyone should do it your way.(Sherman,2018)
____6.The view of human differences as positive and cause for celebration.
____7.Being aware of your stereotypes as they arise and develop the personal strategies to reduced the harm that they
cause.
____8.The assumption that you hold about people of culture or different from your own.
____9.The race,color.relegion,language ethnicity and sexual attention are the differences and factors that we may
encounter on cultural awarenessand sensitivity.
____10.Have an ambigous sense of your own ethnics cultural racial identify will help you to understand the cultural
sensitivity and awareness.
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