MSS Resource for building intercultural communication skills and intercultural competence:
- MSS Conversation Circles – Spend time building skills talking to people with different accents and from different cultures
Resources about Social Identity:
- Social Identity Wheel(printable) on the MSS website
- The Danger of a Single Story by novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A powerful TED Talk, warning “that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.”
- Follow up: More than One Story, Department of Culture and Leisure of Simrishamn, Sweden
- A card game, also available to play online, providing prompts for sharing stories – available in many languages
- A simple introduction to intersectionality from UBC – Intersectionality: What Is It and Why It Matters
- Intersectionality Self-Study Guide, with links to valuable resources from Washington University in St. Louis
Cultural Frameworks:
- Country Comparison Tool by Hofstede Insights
- Compare up to four countries at a time based on Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
- A Complete Guide to Hall’s Iceberg Model of Culture
- East Meets West by Yang Liu
- A visual representation of many of the differences between German and Chinese cultures
Open Textbooks on Intercultural Competence:
- Advancing Intercultural Competence for Global Learners by Christine McWebb, Sandra Lopez-Rocha, & Elisabeth Arevalo-Guerrero
- Intercultural Communication by Shannon Ahrndt
