Cultural Interview Assignment

During this semester, I gained a lot of skills and knowledge about interpersonal relations. As a human being, as a member of the "global village", everyone need to communicate with others. It is important to learn how to communicate well and how to build a healthy and positive interpersonal relationship with others. Like the textbook’ name “Looking Out Looking In”, we looked in the communication itself, looked out the language barrier, nonverbal messages and effective listening, and looked at relational dynamics.
I learned and recognized about how environmental factors can impact our communication. Environment is the basic physical location in our life, and it can lead to different communication atmosphere which I never consider so deeply

I learned the key to positive relationships and the cause and remedies of defensiveness. In module number twelve, I wrote three letters to three different people and observed their reactions, and I noticed that there are a lot of difference in their response because of the culture difference and the different relationship between us.
Finally, I want to say that this interview assignment really made a difference in my future human service professional training. It helps me to guard against inaccurate perceptions of people and be prepared to gain multi-culture competence in the future. For my cultural interview paper, I interviewed my South Korea friend, and I gain a better understanding of Korea’s culture and the culture difference between China, Korea, and America. This interview is meaningful.
Continue to practice how to be myself is pretty important. At the last Adobe Connect session, Dr. Joy Mwendwa reminded me that if I cannot take care of myself, I might be burn out. If I become a counselor in the future, I’ll be the person who will model others and deliver services to others. Therefore, first thing I need to learn is take care of