cross-cultural understanding
- noun
- /ˈkrɔsˈkʌltʃərəl ˌʌndərˈstændɪŋ/
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comprensión intercultural
- Creative Response aims to enhance cross-cultural understanding by using the performing arts to connect diverse communities.
- promote cross-cultural understanding
And we, we said that we adopted a mission to promote cross cultural understanding and, and support cultural diversity.
- And we, we said that we adopted a mission to promote cross cultural understanding and, and support cultural diversity.
Examples
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This does not mean that cross-cultural understanding has increased.
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Such cross-cultural understanding is important in furthering the development of international approaches for environmental ethics.
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And we, we said that we adopted a mission to promote cross cultural understanding and, and support cultural diversity.
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Thus, with our stories, we can plan for a future of better cross-cultural understanding, with true respect for diversity.
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Nevertheless, enormous problems surround any attempt at cross-cultural understanding.
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To strengthen civic engagement and cross-cultural understanding in New York City and, by extension, around the world
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Teachers using gestures correctly are cross-culturally sensitive so as to facilitate cross-cultural understanding.
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They stated that knowledge will help engender cross-cultural understanding, advance reconciliation, and aid an appreciation and extension of what it means to be Australian.
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Indeed, the general humanizing project of the discipline of anthropology, which sets out to create cross-cultural understanding, has often been articulated through reference to art.
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Since culture shock often manifests itself with feelings of stress, anxiety, depression, and other emotional or physical upsets, teachers can work toward easing these maladies by becoming educated in cross-cultural understanding and recognizing the large role culture plays in the adjustment of new students to the classroom.
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Synonyms
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3.4
A situation where two or more people share the same feelings and ideas
How Aware
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Surface Forms
Morphology
cross-cultural + understanding
The meaning is directly and compositionally built from 'cross-cultural' (relating to interactions between cultures) + 'understanding' (capacity to comprehend), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to awareness/knowledge between cultures. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent noun phrase pattern rather than an idiom, making it accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Cross-cultural understanding creates the image of a bridge that lets people cross from one cultural area to another to meet, talk, and learn, which leads to understanding. That picture shows why the phrase means learning about differences and similarities so people can 'understand others' and 'work well together'.