Reading through the intercultural competence's presentation, I thought about the last English literature course, that I had attended with Professor Oboe last year. It was during that course, in fact, that I came across some points of intercultural competences for the first time. It was talking about literature in English coming from outside England, that I realized that till that time I hadn’t developed an awareness of how dealing with the differences between different cultures. But what had struck me more, had been that through those lectures I had been acknowledging more and more that I my cultural frame towards some people or cultures was incredibly narrowed; not only because I knew little about them (and that might even be excused), but also because I had strong bias against them, and I didn’t even know why... and it was so depressing realizing that! Sometimes we have a distorted vision of things just because it’s our culture that has injected it to us... and that’s a pity, isn’t it?
Finally, what I understood at the end of that course, was that I have to try to look at things, considering them from more perspectives... it can’t be that easy, I know and it might be taken for granted... Although I have been studying foreign languages for years and I’ve been dealing with different cultures too, I realize there’s still much to do for me, to enhance my intercultural competence.
