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Different Talents, New Abilities

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Intercultural Readiness

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The four competences of the Intercultural Readiness approach fit together to form an integral picture of a person’s strengths, weaknesses, and developmental needs in their ability to deal with other cultures. The competences reflect an idealized sequence of stages in a process of intercultural interaction whereby two or more people from different cultures interact with each other to attain a certain goal.

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  1. Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven, Françoise Askevis-Leherpeux, Bettina Hannover, Renske Jaarsma and Benoît Dardenne (2002) Asymmetrical international attitudes’, European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 32(2), pp. 275–89.

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© 2014 Ursula Brinkmann and Oscar van Weerdenburg

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Brinkmann, U., van Weerdenburg, O. (2014). Different Talents, New Abilities. In: Intercultural Readiness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346988_5

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