6.4 Describe six strategies that will help bridge differences between people and help them adapt to differences.

You develop intercultural communication competence when you are able to adapt your behavior toward another person in ways that are appropriate to the other person’s culture. Specific strategies for becoming interculturally competent include the following:

• Seek information.

• Ask questions and listen.

• Tolerate ambiguity.

• Be mindful.

• Become other oriented by socially decentering and empathizing with others.

• Appropriately and ethically adapt your communication to others.

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