Importance of Cultural Awareness and Intelligence in Daily Life

Sociology

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Culture differs from one society to another it is separated by the caste, religion and
gender. It is important for people to have cultural awareness so that a bond can be built
between people of different culture. Understanding the cultural values and beliefs of others
help in establishing easy communication. It is necessary for the growth of an individual to
learn and uphold the values of other culture. A child that is born in third culture always has a
large scope of knowledge that could help in attuning according to the social surrounding. For
example a child from an Indian family living in America will have the greater knowledge
about both the cultures when compared with children from two different cultures (Russell,
2011). Culture awareness is important in workplace so that no conflicts take place between
team members (Russell, 2011). It contributes in understanding the ideas of other culture and
maintains easy communication so that team work increases.
On the other hand, culture intelligence allows a person to be successful in a global
environment. Cultural intelligence is important for leaders in an organisation as they allow
making decisions by understanding the philosophy of other culture (Thomas, et. al, 2015).
Apart from that, cultural intelligence plays an important role in daily life. It can be done by
having a brief knowledge of one culture so that they can deliver effective leadership
capability of other people. It is a step by step process, in which first step is ruminating about
the culture, second is being motivated about the culture and then performing the behaviour
accordingly. Cultural intelligence is most often referred to success of people in adjusting to
some other culture for examples when I go from India to China if I am able to learn their
culture easily then if have higher cultural intelligence. Apart from this cultural intelligence
also deals with behaviour that is understood to be as the intelligent in different culture. For
instance older people teach their new generation some cultural behaviour that makes them
more respected (Brislin, Worthley & Macnab, 2006).

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Cultural self-awareness develops understanding of ones values and beliefs. For
example, the culture is differentiated by their customs and beliefs. The difference in beliefs
has split the culture across the globe. The customs of one religion differs from individual to
other. I practise Hinduism as my religion in with every individual hold each other as sisters
and brothers. My religion helped in trusting the dignity and respect of other (Miriam, Alon,
Raveh, Ella, Rikki, & Efrat, 2013). Practising the customs of my culture I believed that I
should understand other cultures aloe so that I become self-aware of other customs too. I
understood the situation of other religion so that circumstances could be understood and steps
could be taken accordingly. Gaining cultural self-awareness builds regularity and novelty
(Russell, 2011). It helps in knowing the uniqueness of each religion.
Apart from that, gaining the information about other cultures helps in developing the
behaviours and capability to solve the problem in an effective way. It supports the individual
to build cultural intelligent. Once the culture is upright it helps in understanding other
cultures too. It helps in having easy communication between people by avoiding the chances
of miscommunication (Ramsey, AbiAad, Jiang, Barakat & Drummond, 2016). There is
always a need of high moral standards so that interaction can be maintained easily. The core
reason of self-awareness is cultural intelligence that facilities interaction in normal life. For
example there are people in different parts of the world who do not go abroad in the fear of
cultural shock or say they believe that the difference might affect their well-being (Flanja,
2009).
Culture Awareness play an important role in everyday life of an individual as it helps
in understanding positive values and principals of one culture. From the research it was found
that there are various cultural conflicts that take place at the workplace. These issues arise
due to lack of awareness about the customs and religion. Cultural intelligence helps in
resolving cultural issues at workplace and even in society (Miriam, Alon, Raveh, Ella,