Dive into a media analysis comparing Mellody Hobson's 2014 TED Talk "Color Blind or Color Brave" and the journal article "Becoming a Culturally Intelligent Leader". Understand how both media highlight cultural intelligence, leadership, and the courage to embrace diversity.
Introduction
The paper has chosen both video media
(color blind or color brave Mellody hobson, 2014) and journal articles media (“Becoming a Culturally Intelligent Leader by Linn Van
Dyne, Soon Ang, and David Livermore“).
In the narrow view, media content analysis is a sub-category of content
analysis primarily for research methodology. Thus, video content analysis is a
rich media embedding other media content such as text and audio. Therefore, the selection of the “color blind
or color brave” video, the content automatically underscores the importance of
racism awareness. The audience is provided with an opportunity to in-depth
understanding of racism and its impact on the community.
On
the other hand, the selection of the media journal article content, cultural
intelligence is appropriate since enables an individual to have skills to
effectively interact with emotional capabilities and to understand and adapt to
the myriad of cultural contexts. In the narrow view, it simplifies why cultural
intelligence is central in helping the leaders to develop an overall viewpoint
and repertoire that is integral in an effective leadership. Furthermore, there
is the utilization of in-depth, in most cases contemplative and incisive
observations from the literature of the journal article. The media journal in
the broad view; conducts scrutiny of a representative subject of the content
embedded in it to be examined.
Big ideas
Amongst
the overarching big ideas is culture intelligence. Cultural intelligence can be
defined the ability of an individual to function effectively across different
culture. The concept is built upon four
frameworks that synthesize the volumes of resources and viewpoint on
intelligence and cut across the cultural leadership. These four capabilities
are different and also correlated. The
four factors of the cultural intelligence include motivational cultural
intelligence, cognitive cultural intelligence, metacognitive cultural
intelligence and behavioral cultural intelligence.
The second big ideas are on the improvement of
the cultural intelligence. These improvements re confined to core commitments
and practicing to improve cultural practices. On one side, the commitment
framework include, starting anthropological dig in an individual soul. In other
words, requires understanding one before understanding others. Also, there is root of the perspective of
other people in the Image Dei. In other words, if an individual view others
were also created by the image of god, significant in shaping the fundamental
relation. Finally, there is seeking the kingdom of God. In other words, it is
difficult for an individual to separate their relationship with others from
their commitment in Christianity. On the
other side, the practices of increasing CQ include but not limited to read, watching
different backgrounds movies, eating and learning a new language. To begin
with, an individual need to read different books written by different authors from cultural
backgrounds that has subjects adrift from their experience, secondly, films are fundamental in transforming an
individual mindset on other people’s culture. Therefore, it is appropriate to watch
film that expose an individual to other cultures, thirdly, an individual should
try different food from different places and eat with people from different
cultural backgrounds to open a new world of experience. Finally, an individual
should strive to learn a new language since it is the cornerstone of allowing them
to see world differently and improve on how they communicate with people from
different cultural backgrounds.
There
should be creation of racism awareness.
The author from the video has noted many people have failed to
acknowledge and address the issues of racism which is widespread in the contemporary. The community and the world are living in
denial that, racism is existence especially against people with color.
Therefore, creation of awareness where people need to have profound insights on
racism, its frameworks and its nature should be a step in the right direction
in combating it.
“So-what”
to big ideas in relation to leadership
The shortcomings of the
cultural intelligence for intercultural communication purports that one can
only figure so much within the constraints. To a certain extent, an individual
also requires knowledge and or other resources not just possess the ability of
the cultural intelligence. However, for example, leader with low cultural intelligence
residing within a foreign culture for many years may have a better
intercultural communication than a recent arrival leader with high cultural
intelligence Though, its arguments
illustrates that, the approach is confine to diversity it has an important
conceptual limitations. In the context of the cultural intelligence, the
culture is reduced to race and ethnicity ignoring other important aspects. In
other worse, it only frames race and ethnicity as residing only in the other,
leaving the dominant cultures unproblematized. Notably, cultural intelligence is central in
helping the leaders to develop an overall viewpoint and repertoire that is
integral in an effective leadership.
With cultural intelligence, leaders can successful leads in the rapid
globalization world. With one possessing
skills to effectively interact with emotional capabilities, leaders have an
effective understanding and adapt to the myriad of cultural contexts. In the
narrow view, these are essential need at any contemporary leader would want to
have for effective leadership. However, within the framework of cultural
intelligence there are some of the elements of cultural understanding that are
deeply ingrained and in some cultures, only implied. In other words, it becomes
hard for the leaders to understand new cultures fully, hence derail their
leadership. For instance, if a culture is using many words to express a
particular feelings, which can only be defined in another language, it becomes
difficult for an individual not of native origin to understand the culture fully.
Furthermore, for leaders coming from European countries, they are used to
western society that places a great deal on an individual so it becomes
difficult to thrive in the Eastern societies that place value on the society as
the whole. For leaders these deeply ingrained attitudes can be difficult to
move past fully in dealing with people from different cultures hence affects
the quality of leadership.
The disparity and differences
makes it difficult to leaders to understand different cultures. Fundamentally, core commitments and
practicing to improve cultural practices is salient for leaders considering their
leadership is casted on the emotional capabilities. However, it requires a lot of commitment and
practices for leaders to attain the minimum threshold in understanding other
cultures. Leadership begins with understanding oneself before understanding
others. Technically, all the cultures do not have a common factor. Thus, by
understanding on one culture, makes it easy to understand the culture of other
people but not fully due to complex technicalities involved. Importantly,
profound insights on different cultures shape on how leaders relate with other
people. However with shallow insights on different people cultures, it injured
a leader relationship with other people. On the other hand, leaders improve
their skills, abilities and perceptive based on the cultural intelligence through
practicing. Reading, eating, watching
movies based on different cultural backgrounds, learning new language and many
more factors improves the cultural
intelligence of a leader. However, most
of the leaders who function on the global sphere are leading global organization
that requires their input on factors that directly affects the profitability
and sustainability of the company. In other words, it becomes difficult for
leaders to have ample time to improve to practice to improve their cultural intelligence.
Furthermore, the composition of the society is changing and greatly influences
people from different cultural background, it’s upon leaders to update their
skills to cater for the needs of the people which is difficult for most of them
to keep pace with ever changing dynamics.
Racism is a major problem in the modern world. It has been noted that,
there has been problem of creating awareness, with many people assuming the
racial discrimination in the society is acceptable by all standards. Therefore, any leader partaking in an
initiative to create racial awareness may face opposition from a certain
customer base quarter. Society lacks an individual to lead them in doing what
ought to have been done long time ago. Therefore, leaders taking up the mantle
and lead the people in campaigns that oppose and condemn any form of racism in
the modern society should expect opposing forces that may interfere with their
leadership.
Overall implications
The
two main agenda is the cultural intelligence and racism awareness. These factors are important in shaping up the
complex dynamics of the modern world. The
world is currently on the realm of globalization. Therefore, instead of being
entangled in one culture and race, its composition involves myriad of cultures
and race contexts. Individuals and leaders need to have the knowledge know-how
on how to handle these new dynamics to accommodate all different people in the society.
On the side of cultural intelligence, the understanding that cuts across
different cultures forms a successful integration of all the cultures. The
ability of an individual to function effectively across different culture
underlines the importance of develops an overall viewpoint and repertoire
integral in developing an in-depth connection with different cultures. Cultural intelligence such as the cognitive
CQ provides the platform to understand basic cultural cues. In other words, an individual understand the
building block of a culture and eventually learn to respect it. On the other
hand, racial awareness is salient in dealing with skyrocketing of racial discrimination
to unprecedented level. The dynamics of
the new world, requires, all the people to co-exist with one another. Thus, to
curtail the ballooning rate of racial discrimination, racial awareness structures
a platform of identification, condemning and responding to racism.
Combination of the media content
I
understand the combination of the video and journal media content has been
integral in analysis of the main objectives. While the video content with the
aid of other media content such as text and voice has provide the visual aspects, the journal
content has provide an in depth analysis of the cultural intelligence. Cultural intelligence and Racism awareness
are the intertwined to certain point. My perspective is that, for an individual who
possess cultural intelligence, where they have the cues of different cultural contexts;
it will be difficult to practice racism. Arguably, racism is due to ignorance
and having the cultural intelligence deals with the aspect in all
dimensions. On the contrary, racism
awareness is one of the aspects that cultural intelligence is advocating
for. For an individual, an in-depth
knowledge and insights of other people culture is prerequisite in dealing with
cultural hangovers. Similarly, I
understand through racism awareness an individual not only deal with incidents
of racism put also partake in creating preventive mitigation strategies such as
racism awareness. Therefore, I can deduce that both two topics are
interconnected and the implementation of one affects the other.
Different perspective
The
two topics are debatable. While some
quarters may argue on their effectives, some may argue they lack the cutting edge.
For the cultural intelligence, although leaders and individuals are encouraged
to learn the culture of others, it is difficult to learn all the cultures based
on their high numbers. Furthermore, cultures tend to advocate aspects in
opposite way. For instance, what is acceptable by one culture, its highly not
condoned by another culture? The clash of perspectives and norms among different
culture brings the element of confusion and misunderstanding. Therefore,
individuals in quest to acquire cultural intelligence may be compelled to
distort their original cultural perspectives.
On the racism awareness, the agenda is most
likely resonating with the victims and not the perpetrators. In other words,
the perpetrators may be against the initiative since it downplays their behaviors.
Notably, some of these individuals exhibiting racism find happiness in committing
it, and creating awareness to stop it, sound like fighting their consciences. Also, the victims to some extent may have
accept the situation in entirety hence creating awareness do not resonate with
them. In a nutshell, cultural intelligence and racial awareness are two salient
factors for ensuring positive development of the society.
References
hobson, m. (2014). Color blind
or color brave? Retrieved octomber 8, 2022, from Ted:
https://www.ted.com/talks/mellody_hobson_color_blind_or_color_brave
Linn Van Dyne, S. A. (n.d.). Becoming a
Culturally Intelligent Leader. 1-9.
Video
content
https://www.ted.com/talks/mellody_hoson_color_blind_or_color_brave
Journal
article
Becoming a Culturally
Intelligent Leader by Linn Van Dyne,
Soon Ang, and David Livermore
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