In this part, please describe and analyze one intercultural experience you have had (e.g. in traveling or working overseas, moving to new region of the United States, working with individuals from ethnic/racial/religious backgrounds different from your own, etc).
In your response, please follow this format:
Briefly describe the encounter/experience
Choose one of the follow course concepts that might relate to your experience:
Culture shock-/w-curve theory of adaptation
Four ways of responding to difference
Cultural intelligence model
Explain the main points of the concept/theory as described in your textbook
Describe how this concept relates to your experience (or how your experience could be explained by this concept).
Please address these questions: (a) Was it a positive experience? negative? why? (b) What did you learn about yourself? your own cultural background/attitudes? other cultures? (c) How might the experience influence your attitudes and/or behaviors in current intercultural encounters?
