Talk:Intercultural competence
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[edit] Time
" * In Mediterranean European countries, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, it is normal, or at least widely tolerated, to arrive half an hour late for a dinner invitation, whereas in Germany and in the United States this would be considered very rude. [citation needed]"
In Africa it is customary to arrive late for everything. The whole concept of "African Time". Maybe this needs to be in a separate article.
Source: www.cicb.net. As Author I agree licensing under GFDL of the here mentioned text (if possible with indication of source). --User: Mike2000. Email: baumer@cicb.net.
This reads more like an article on prejudice than anything else. The examples of cultural differences are laughably inaccurate. I'm not sure that they can be salvaged and propose their deletion. Sprotch 17:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Typical examples of cultural differences
Hi, these examples have been basically collected from different sources and published in my "Handbook Intercultural Competence" (ISBN 3-280-02691-1; in german language - see detailed sources there) and are mentioned at the homepage of my institute (www.cicb.net). As on this Wiki-page these examples have been partially updated and amended by several users, not all of these examples might be correct anymore. However they could be interesting as an information, but without absolute guarantee - first as behaviors change with the time, but also as updates in the Wiki are very quick and not always 100% referenced. So, to be on the safe side, these examples might be deleted, but I think when marked as guidelines and as used in many parts of the regions mentioned (i. e. in the majority but never 100%), they could be left. --Mike2000 23:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dispute of factual accuracy
Hi, but your statement does not provide any factual refutation of the matters raised here. The article seems to be as you say an ad hoc collection of information referenced by another tertiary source "The Centre of Intercultural Competence", which itself offres little in the way of relevant scholastic credentials. The references to cultures given herein are extremely simplistic and highly debatable. The old inaccurate example of the Inuit given on the CIC site is an example of this sort of second-hand and fundamentally inaccurate information that has moved into populist folklore (urban myths?) and understanding of this complex area. The article needs to be cleaned up, balanced, and referenced but to specific statements and to other scholarly bodies of work on the subject matter. Perhaps it needs to be deleted. Consequently I have tagged the item accordingly.
84.249.192.100 22:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
