Cultural Self Awareness and Cultural Intelligence

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Introduction
The cultural self awareness is strongly connected towards the development of cultural
intelligence for a various number of reason. According to Van Dyne, Ang and Koh (2015)
culture is an crucial aspect of the life of an individual due to its major influence by the culture of
people including desires, values, views and worries. In the era of rising multicultural diverse
manpower, it is extremely essential for the understanding of the cultural awareness and the
derivation of cultural intelligence for the aim of organizational standards and better
communication. As per the current work situation, building of the culture of organization and
behavior has become extremely essential on the light of effective cross cultural communication.
The thesis statement of the essay argues with the relation of cultural self awareness and cultural
intelligence. This critical reflection will interpret the importance for the understanding and
demonstration of the cultural self awareness for the development of the cultural intelligence
among the multicultural societies. The essay will define both the terms, cultural self awareness
and cultural intelligence and explain their relationships towards the importance in the current
date.
Discussion
Cultural Awareness
Within the diverse world, each and every person has their own set of cultures. The
cultural awareness gives the base or the foundation regarding the communication involving the
knowledge towards the values, perceptions and the belief system of an individual (Livermore &
Soon, 2015). The context of cultural awareness is the central while initiating interaction with one
another and to be aware of the nature of communication with other individual for avoiding any

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sort of miscommunication. According to my personal belief and experiences, I belief cultural
awareness is specifically an essential step for the cultural competences.
Cultural Intelligence
The cultural Intelligence is the ability to thrive within a multi-cultural environment.
Cultural Intelligence furthermore relates to the evolution from the notions of intelligence
quotient that is established effectively. The context of cultural event has been very much vital in
several aspects of day to day living of human. The context of cultural intelligence requires any of
a person to be very much aware regarding their own culture and some of the other cultures like
how they behave and think (Van Dyne, Ang & Tan, 2016). According to the researches, three of
the major steps that are involved towards the development of the cultural intelligence includes
thinking regarding the culture, acting in an appropriate manner and having the motivation for
behavioral changes.
Importance of the development of cultural intelligence by cultural awareness
It is to be noted that the ability of a person for adoption within a diverse environment
tends to happen with their cultural awareness like legal systems, knowledge of economy, beliefs,
social norms, linguistic knowledge of the society and the religious outlook. Thus According to
my perception, through the means of cultural awareness employees or managers of organization
can utilize in the development of their verbal and non verbal ways of communication for the
successful generation of cross culture intelligence for execution of effective ways for
communication at a diverse environment (Fong et al., 2016). Cultural awareness helps in the
development and building of strategy before the appearance among the culturally diverse
environment. By the development of judgments regarding one’s personal though procedure to