Please help me with my discussion question, While formal intercultural experiences like studying abroad or volunteering for the Special Olympics or a shelter for LGBTQ youth can provide opportunities for deep learning, informal intercultural involvement also plays a significant role in our ability and desire to build Intercultural Communication Competency (ICC). Taking the time to reflect on “critical incidents’ or what we call the ‘a-ha! moments’ in our lives, bring those formal and informal experiences together and provide a tool for meta-competence. Furio Bednarz, ‘Building Up Intercultural Competences: Challenges and Learning Processes,’ in Building Competencies: A Handbook for Professionals in Education, Social Work, and Health Care, eds. Maria Giovanna Onorati and Furio Bednarz (Leuven, Belgium: Acco, 2010), 47–51. ** watch the following video and describe– What this speaker is attempting to say to you How she has helped or hindered your understanding of intercultural competence How you would respond to the belief that– We cannot truly understand and appreciate another person’s culture until we recognize, understand, and appreciate our own What else are you thinking about? What are you feeling? What are you believing? Do you have other comments you’d like to make? Remember as you develop your response, you’ll want to include your perspective supported by materials from the video and the readings within this unit. Click on “cc” at the bottom right of the video for assistance with closed captioning. TEDx Talks. (2016b, December 14). The Muslim on the airplane | Amal Kassir | TEDxMileHighWomen [Video]. YouTube. After you’ve posted your response (of a minimum 15 to 20 sentences), take time to view as many of your classmates’ comments as possible. What are they saying? What are they describing? What have they learned about improving intercultural competence? Does it coincide with your perspective? Take time then to respond to at least 3 of your peers. This will be your final opportunity to connect with the individuals in your class. Make it count. Use what you’ve learned to engage in a crucial conversation about intercultural communication. Hello, please respond induvial to each peer response to the question asked by the Professor. Ernst. Said: I would want to start out by saying I agree with Ms. Kassir. As a black male it’s easy to comprehend how she feels as far as discrimination goes. What Ms. Kassir is trying to say to us is that we as people make decisions based on our outward appearance without knowledge of who we really are based on fears they may have made up in their minds due to stereotypes. The reading refers to this as “Ascribed” behaviors that people place on us. Kassir says that just because she wears a hijab and has a darker skin tone it doesn’t mean that she is a terrorist. Kassir was makes an overall point that all of us can relate to.I would state that Ms. Kassir more so helped me than hindered me. Even due to the circumstances it feels nice to have someone speak on a topic so sensitive but yet so relatable. Having a sense of familiarity with things like this are needed, especially in todays time. From my stand point there is a lot of what the reading would say people do not have “Cognitive Flexibility”. There is a lot of placement of what people think as far as going with the response to the belief that we cannot understand a persons culture until we understand or try to get an understanding. The type of misinterpretation that I have received as a young black male is an example of why it’s important. For example there have been times in the past when I would walk into a corner store and the owners gave me looks as if they thought I had some kind of ill intent. I have not personally experienced this but I’ve heard my peers gives details about people walking to the other side of the walkway when they are getting ready to pass them. The part that really has me intreged is that according to the reading everyone shares at least 99.9% of DNA. That just go to show that the physical features you see in other’s that you may feel give off a reason to be fearful or judgmental really don’t matter. With that being said I feel its best people be judged by their character and not by their appearances. How can I respond to Ernst? Antoinette said: The speaker is attempting to say we are all people. It doesn’t matter who we are or where we came from. In the moment that we attempt to develop our own prospective of people, we ‘label’ them. We label people into who we believe they are or should be. We forget and assume entirely too much on the basis of assumption. When we forget to look at a person from within, we exploit that person’s story and their beliefs. We never recognize that person for what tribute they make towards ‘race, social class, religion, clothing’ but instead to the name’s that we have developed them to be. We can assume so many things about a person based off of what the news or media has created and perhaps the ways that they have labeled them to be. If given the chance, we can learn so much more about a person’s characteristics by simple spoken words. We can learn by approaching that person with a simple conversation. When we wrongfully exclude some individuals and include other’s, we place people in a bubble. The determination of who people are is hindered by different cultural believes. Intercultural competence helps effective communication across all cultures. The Ted Talk speaker helped with a better understanding of intercultural competence from her different perspectives, experiences, and believes. We learn how to interact with different backgrounds based on intercultural communication competence because we gain more knowledge, awareness, skills, attitude, and views. The video is valuable to build a better appreciation for another person’s culture. In my opinion, this video could be essential for company training; very interesting and helpful for understanding intercultural competence. At no point did I find this video offense because some topics need to be addressed and uncomfortable to receive the value of the message. If one person is touched, then the message was received. How can I respond to Antoinette? Valeriy said: I think what the author I was trying to get out of this speech was that we can’t judge someone without even getting to know them. It seems as more and more people tend to be more judgmental and rude. I really did like this speech, and it honestly this let me see things from a different prospective and how different people see different things in their own ways. I think this video gives me an understanding that everyone is in their own little bubble, and everyone is in their own way of how they do things. Some people view things differently than others and some people are more able to take up paint. I honestly truly agree with the statement that we cannot understand and appreciate another person’s culture until we recognize it. I think this is very true because a lot of us aren’t very educated on cultures and beliefs and the only way we can become educated is if we try. I think it’s so important for people to make sure they have a knowledge and understanding because they can’t just judge someone off something they don’t even know. For example, if a new coworker comes into work a lot of people are going to be thinking this person has no experience why he is here but truly once you get to know him, he could be one of the most experienced persons out there. After watching this video, I really love the way she talked about everything, and I very clean way and it gave me a very good understanding on how we as a people set labels for everyone. It’s just something we all do it’s just our thoughts and because we think it’s right to set these labels and set these judgmental things it’s just, we do a little too much and it shouldn’t be done. How can I respond to Valeriy? 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