Meta-Knowledge of Culture Promotes Cultural Competence

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  • Angela K.-y. Leung
    Singapore Management University, Singapore
  • Sau-lai Lee
    Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Chi-yue Chiu
    Institute on Asian Consumer Insight, Nanyang Technological University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Singapore

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<jats:p> A behavioral signature of cross-cultural competence is discriminative use of culturally appropriate behavioral strategies in different cultural contexts. Given the central role communication plays in cross-cultural adjustment and adaptation, the present investigation examines how meta-knowledge of culture—defined as knowledge of what members of a certain culture know—affects culturally competent cross-cultural communication. We reported two studies that examined display of discriminative, culturally sensitive use of cross-cultural communication strategies by bicultural Hong Kong Chinese (Study 1), Chinese students in the United States and European Americans (Study 2). Results showed that individuals formulating a communicative message for a member of a certain culture would discriminatively apply meta-knowledge of the culture. These results suggest that unsuccessful cross-cultural communications may arise not only from the lack of motivation to take the perspective of individuals in a foreign culture, but also from inaccurate meta-knowledge of the foreign culture. </jats:p>

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