#meetinginthemiddle

Intercultural competence is the ability to interact effectively and respectfully with people from different cultural backgrounds, whether you're at work or in your personal life.

Lifelong learning process: This competence requires constant openness, curiosity, and an intensive engagement with unfamiliar values and norms.

Mutual adaptation (“Meeting in the middle”): Productive cooperation is based on empathy, mutual understanding, and an active willingness to find a compromise.

Challenges: Cultural and language differences increase the risk of miscommunication.

Conflict potential at work: A lack of intercultural sensitivity frequently creates conflict and degrades the working atmosphere.

"Watson!" he called.

He seemed flustered, and I wondered if he was mad about my actions outside. What right did he have to tell me to stand there and listen to that man?

"What?" I asked, hardly calm.

"Watson, we need to talk."

"About what? How you continue to assist a client who has insulted me? How you hate the fact I've made friends with Sam? How you hate that I would offer to help Sam rather then that horrid Mr. Brown? Save your breath. I don't want to hear any of it!" I said, my temper finally pouring out like lava.