Cross-Cultural Psychology taught me how to practice self reflection, helped me realize that I may not always agree with someone and that’s okay, finally taught me the different stages of intercultural sensitivity.

     In blog 8, I discussed how people from different cultures express themselves through clothing and communicating: whether they say how they feel or keep their feelings to themselves. This blog can be applied to intercultural sensitivity which was the topic of the first assignment of this semester. I chose to discuss the acceptance of difference stage of intercultural sensitivity, and listening to how someone from another culture may feel and accepting how they express themselves is a prime example of a situation where someone may need to be sensitive and accepting of someone from another culture. Doing so, will make it easier for cooperation in a professional setting or personal setting. It will also make it easier to resolve conflicts in a way that all parties benefit.

     In my World Cultural Studies course, The Question of Remembering, we discuss how people remember major events in history. In this course we discussed culture contributes to memory. In Cross-Cultural Psychology we discussed Culture and Cognition in chapter 8 with a specific section on culture and memory. In World Cultural Studies we focused on the telling of stories rather lists in Cross-Cultural Psychology. In both courses there was a decrease in memory with age or rather selective memory. In World Cultural studies we focused on what and how something is remember whereas Cross-Cultural Psychology focuses on what types of memory is universal across across cultures.