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On Wednesday Nov. 4, the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Education brought Dr. Darla Deardorff to campus to discuss the important issue of intercultural competence around the world and within our own campus.
"So, when I tell the people about intercultural competency particularly outside academia and university and I like to think about what is necessary for us to get along together with each other as humans," Deardorff said.
Deardorff is the Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators at Duke University. She talked about why she has dedicated the last 10 years of her life to the research about intercultural competence and the key aspects that led to a successful understanding and practice of the topic.
"I would say it's related to my faith background in the end, I was raised in one of the three historic peace church of christian denomination, and where peace making was very important and very emphasized and you can see how this ties together how I think of intercultural competence it's really I approach it idealistically it really is what's necessary for us to live together as humans."
Deardorff spoke specifically on the key aspects of what makes intercultural competence and why what we, as college students, can do to create a common understanding of intercultural competence.