openness | Respect for otherness: ability to look at all customs and values from a distance, regarding them at the same time as worthwhile in their own right) |
Tolerance of ambiguity: ability to accept ambiguity and lack of clarity and deal with it constructively | |
knowledge | Knowledge discovery: ability to acquire and actually use cultural knowledge |
Empathy: ability to intuitively understand what other people think and how they feel | |
adaptability | Behavioral flexibility: ability to adapt one’s own behavior to different requirements and situations Communicative awareness: ability to identify and consciously work with communicative conventions |