THE CULTURALLY SKILLED WORKER
For many people, dealing effectively with others from other cultures can be a matter of politeness and empathy: learning to be sensitive to others’ needs and concerns, and behaving respectfully towards them. This may be sufficient to avoid offending others, but more may be needed to enable a person to deal sensitively and effectively with cultural differences in particular situations. For instance, a teacher may find that students from another culture behave and learn in ways that not shared by fellow students from the dominant culture, and may find it necessary to look a little further into the issue of cultural difference to find more suitable methods for nurturing the children’s learning. A physician may find that sh...read more