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Globalisation has condensed the contemporary world into a small intercultural village. Currently, national or cultural boundaries no longer exist as individuals work and live with people from different cultures. In the labour sector, organisations are striving to attain multicultural competency in their human resource management actions. In spite these facts, the reality is that national and cultural boundaries still exist in our minds. People have been reluctant to embrace the ongoing eradication of cultural boundaries through the globalisation effects. As highlighted in the reading materials, a significant percentage of the global population possesses an insufficient understanding of intercultural competence.
As result of this insufficient understanding, intercultural conflicts are increasingly becoming prevalent. According to Patel, Sooknanan, and Li (2011), most of these intercultural conflicts emanate from ignorance and reliance on assumptions. Instead of interacting with people from other cultures with an open mind, people rely on cultural stereotypes as means of judging the practices of others. Consequently, the reading materials enhanced my knowledge on why people stereotype the practices of those who are different from them. Precisely, this stereotyping attitude emanates from the lack of intercultural empathy. According to ABC (2016), empathy is all about what it feels to be the other person. Sadly, humans tend to empathise with only those people who are similar to them.