Cultural Awareness Self-Assessment

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For my cultural awareness self-assessment activity, I received a score of 70, meaning I have “an outstanding (superb) cultural awareness. Further growth will only increase your incredibly strong awareness base and make you even more culturally aware than you are.” I think I scored so well is due partially to my multinational background being a Vietnamese American and my background in sociology. As someone who was born and grew up in an Asian country, then had to move and transition to the Western society and culture has definitely helped me and build me into the person I am today. My multi-nationality allows me to have this constant exposure of the Western norms/culture and the Eastern norms/culture; it allows me to constantly compare and contrast …show more content…

The score of 7 out of 9 for the culture knowledge quiz could be due to my curiosity for wanting to learn about other cultures has helped me learn a lot and so I would always know bits and pieces of random facts. For my self-awareness activity for value tendencies, I received a score of 24 for FS (structure or high uncertainty avoidance), 14 for IC (individualism), and 12 for EH (egalitarianism or low power distance); as you can see in the scores how both cultures blatantly affect me. For high uncertainty avoidance, I think I’m just not much of a risk-taker type of person; I need to know what am I doing at exactly what time and where. This has definitely brought up a lot of problems in life considering that I was on the path to medical school since I was 12 and didn’t give myself any leeway until recently. Based on the score, seems like not much has changed, but then again I like to have clear cut instructions to avoid asking for help for miscellaneous things from my superiors, especially when they’re busy. I want to be able to keep doing my job instead of waiting around for someone to help me figure out a minor

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