TEXT 1. Read and discuss the text.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 445.

Topical words

COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES

adapt

community [kamju :niti]

open-minded

to judge

differences

visible, invisible

sensitive

offensive

to interpret

genuine

handshaking

business card

gift

misunderstanding

многокультурный

I приспосабливаться

S общество, община

S непредубежденный

I судить (о)

I отличия

! видимый, явный

S невидимый, незаметный

в чувствительный

в обидчивый

в объяснять, разъяснять

1 искренний

! рукопожатие

- визитная карточка, визитка

- подарок

! непонимание

What Makes a Multicultural Person? Before we discuss the qualities a multicultural person, or multiculturalist, needs to have, it is necessary to explain this term.

A multiculturalist is someone who can easily adapt to living in a culture different from their own, the soil of person that could be described as a citizen of the world, or a member of a global community. There are four key qualities you need in order to be a multiculturalist.

The first is to be open-minded, which means not judging one culture as better than another, or believing that the way things are done in your culture is the best or the only way of doing things. In other words, you should not be in any way "ethnocentric".

Multicultural

3. Not to be "ethnocentric" you should be open-minded, which means_______.

4.Visible differences you have to adapt living in another culture include______.

5.Invisible differences are_________________________ .

6/ Being sensitive means______________________________ .

7. A multicultural person has a genuine interest______and wants to_____________________ .