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A summary of understanding and adopting
culture in a foreign country
is important to deal with people.
Clarie May Millan s319073
October 17, 2019
CUC 107 Assignment 3: Applying Cultural Capabilities Report
This report will picture out the different meanings of some words or messages that
has different understanding to other country.
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Table of Contents Page
1. Introduction
1.1 Background 3
1.2 Aim 3
1.3 Scope 3
2. Summary and observations
2.1 Summary 4
2.2 Observations 5
3. Analysis 5
3.1 Cultural judgement 6
3.2 Culture shock 6
3.3 Empathy 7
4. Recommendations 7
5. Summary and Conclusions 8
6. References 9
1. Introduction
1.1 Background
Culture is an important part to the lives of an individual. It shows big impact to their values,
behaviour, hopes and traditions. It is also like a reflection of their deception from their
ancestors that it should be a treasure and to be more likely to pass over the following
generations. Having a cultural capability is a way to be safe in understanding a different
culture. You also need to adopt their cultural activities or languages so you can look at how
you can join them and participate. Safe spaces are important to individual because it provides
a protection to protect mental health and help speech freely, adopt, groupthink and shares
ideas to others (Holley & Steiner 2005).
1.2 Aim
