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