Sunday, April 5, 2009
Intercultural Readiness Self Assessment
The first column itemizes personal characteristics that are helpful for cross-cultural interactions. Evaluate your own current intercultural readiness on a scale of 1-100.Also set a target for graduation day. Do this honestly and intuitively.
Characteristic:
OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 50
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 60
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Sometime people want to do some action and I said what are you doing, I hope that I can learn how to see what they are trying to say.
RESPECT FOR OTHER BELIEFS
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 60
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 70
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Sometime their beliefs hard to understand and do some disrespectful thing hope I can learn from this trip to respect their beliefs.
TRUST IN OTHER PROPLE
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 55
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 40
Comment and/or learning strategy:
I trust people too easily and people keep making fun of me.
TOLERANCE FOR DISCOMFORT
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 42
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 62
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Sometime I feel discomfort and want to go home hope this trip I can learn how to use the discomfort to comfort.
TOLERANCE FOR AMBIGUITY
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 37
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 50
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Can prepare all the thing we need before we go anywhere sometime I keep forgetting to bring the thing and need to share with friend.
PATIENCE
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 53
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 40
Comment and/or learning strategy:
I feel that I am too patience and people keep coming late this time round I do not wait for people.
SENSE OF PERSONAL CONTROL
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 34
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 40
Comment and/or learning strategy:
I sometime too stress lost control of myself hope I can learn how to control myself from this trip.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 20
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 45
Comment and/or learning strategy:
I hope can learn some skill from china.
WILLINGNESS TO TAKE INITIATIVE
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 30
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 48
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Sometime I miss all the initiative whenever I do something, I always complete half of the task only.
WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 40
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 35
Comment and/or learning strategy:
I always take risks, maybe I could learn less from it.
SENCE OF HUMOR
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 30
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 47
Comment and/or learning strategy:
I hope can learn more joke from china people.
CURIOSITY ABOUT OTHER CULTURE
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 35
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 44
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Hope that my curiosity about other cultures will be same as when I was playing game.
COMFORT LEVEL WITH STRANGERS
Current self estimate Score 1-100: 36
Target after the trip Score 1-100: 48
Comment and/or learning strategy:
Sometime I feel that some strangers are using you hope I can learn to beliefs them.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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