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Unit Code* CUC 107 Lecturer name* Susi Woolf

Unit Name* Cultural Intelligence and Capability

Assignment Title* Critical Reflection Essay

Self-cultural-awareness is an important component of cultural intelligence as it helps us to explore,

understand, acknowledge, and value our cultural and social background regarding race. Cultural

intelligence has refer to the traits and skills of people who adjust quickly, with minimal stress. While

cultural self-awareness refers to being conscious of one’s own culturally shaped values, beliefs,

perceptions, and biases. Cultural self-awareness made people more culturally intelligent by increasing

awareness by our own learning processes, strengths, weaknesses, successes, failures, biases, values, goals,

and emotions. The reason why cultural self-awareness assists people to be more culturally intelligent is it

helps to understand and respond to areas of conflict and tension when we encounter individuals from

unfamiliar cultures. By these means we can be relax with uncomfortable and new cultures too.

My topic for cultural self I choose to cover is family. We typically don’t think of families as having a

culture. Countries and communities have cultures, but not families. Right? Well for me, I come from a

place where family culture are taken seriously as it is considered the most important social unit and a high

value is placed on family ties. My parents do not want me to hang out with my friends a lot around the

holidays because they want to bond and become stronger as a family. I am glad I have a strong bond with

my family. The reason I like to have a strong bond with my family is because, I have people to depend on

when no one else is there. But I have a big family so sometimes it gets really hectic, but my family means

everything to me. No matter what culture we call our own, there are distinct differences between that of

other cultures around us. One of the major differences occurs in the realm of family; family affection to be

more specific. Every family has a unique family culture.

Throughout my life I have been influenced and taught lots of things by many people. My biggest

influences were and still are my family. I personally feel that values are strong feelings or beliefs about

important issues in life. Values guide our behaviour and give purpose and direction to our life. Different

individuals have different values. Different families and different cultures have different values. Values

are influenced by traditions, religion, and mass media, social and political situations. Values help people

decide how to behave and interact with others. All teaching of right and wrong begins with attachment--

the warm, emotional tie that children have with their parents. Children learn from and are influenced most

by those persons who are most meaningful to them, and the most meaningful adults are those to whom the

child is emotionally attached. Moral values must be purposely taught, modelled, and reinforced by

parents.

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Comment [M1]: The essay should begin on a new page, after the cover sheet.

Comment [M2]: Essays need page margins of at least 2 cm. (top, bottom, left

and right).

Comment [M3]: There are numerous grammatical errors throughout this essay.

Comment [M4]: This statement needs to be supported by reference to some

published academic paper.

All academic essays must rely on "in-text

citations" to support their viewpoints. But

this essay has none.

Comment [M5]: This seems to be the end of this essay's introduction, but so far it

has not stated the 'purpose' of this essay –

what is sometimes called the 'thesis'. Please

always do this in future essay introductions,

so that the reader knows exactly what to

expect to find in the essay's body. (This can

often be easier if the body is written first.)

Comment [M6]: This text has shading, but shading of text is inappropriate.

I believe that every of our behaviours are reflected by our parents and family members. A good example

must continually be set. Indeed, strongly attached children will follow the example of parents' behaviour

even when it is bad. Culture is the full range of learned behavioural patterns of a group of people. We

have family, ethnic culture, state culture, corporate culture and national culture. It is the imbibed or

adopted culture of a man from the society at large. One of the main approaches to teaching behaviour is to

build on a child's instinctive feelings of empathy, for example through the regular use of reasoning and

"inductions" in behaviour management. This involves pointing out the consequences of the child's

behaviour on other people.

I think learning and experience are intertwined with each other. We learn by our past experiences which help us making right decisions. The end result of our actions always leave a strong impact on our mind. On the other hand, if we listen to the advice of our family and friends, we will remember that advice for a short duration only and after that, we will forget what was advised to us. Ostensibly, advice of our family and friends are also very beneficial. Our parents are elder to us and hence more experienced. They can guide us from their experiences and suggest us to move in the right direction. To sum up, although we learn a lot from our family and friends but the best way of learning is through our experiences. This is because our experience teaches us a lesson and help us learn from our mistakes.