Third, reaching out or
stretching out beyond your own cultural or national cultural origins,
requires more than just an intellectualized knowledge of differences.
And in fact, what we're going to see, in later sessions of this course,
is that it seems that empathy and humility are essential correlates to
actually being able to operate effectively across cultural divides.
And while all this material will be discussed in
much more detail in later sessions.
Particularly session eight.
For now, it's probably worth noting that information flows
tend to help alleviate some of these kinds of cultural barriers,
suggesting that openness in terms of information and to information flows.
Is one way of at least partially inoculating again,
yourself against the kind of cultural biases that we saw reflected in the very
limited levels of cultural globalization that we started out by recapping.
So what this slide suggests is that.
And when a country has a lot of cross border informational interchange with
the rest of the world, the people of that country are relatively less likely to
consider themselves culturally superior.
And, therefore, relatively less likely to consider their culture as
needing protection.
Which can end up being a huge barrier to, not just cross-cultural economic
interactions, but cross-cultural understanding at a personal level.