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Chapter 03: What Is Your Intercultural Sensitivity?
Chapter 03: What Is Your Intercultural Sensitivity?
Read the statement and choose the response that best describes you.
1. I enjoy interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
2. I think people from other cultures are narrow minded. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
3. I am pretty sure of myself in interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
4. I find it very hard to talk in front of people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
5. I always know what to say when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
6. I can be as sociable as I want to be when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
7. I don’t like to be with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
8. I respect the values of people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
9. I get upset easily when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
10. I feel confident when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
11. I tend to wait before forming an impression of culturally distinct counterparts. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
12. I often get discouraged when I am with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
13. I am open minded to people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
14. I am very observant when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
15. I often feel useless when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
16. I respect the ways people from different cultures behave. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
17. I try to obtain as much information as I can when interacting with people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
18. I would not accept the opinions of people from different cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
19. I am sensitive to my culturally distinct counterpart’s subtle meanings during our interaction. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
20. I think my culture is better than other cultures. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
21. I often give positive responses to my culturally different counterpart during our interaction. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
22. I avoid those situations in which I will have to deal with culturally distinct persons. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
23. I often show my culturally distinct counterpart my understanding through verbal or nonverbal cues. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |
24. I have a feeling of enjoyment toward differences between my culturally distinct counterpart and me. | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Uncertain | Agree | Strongly Agree |