CRITICAL THINKING Exercises :
1. Cross-cultural Communication Your community has recently received a major influx of immigrants from a non-white, non-Judeo-Christian country.
A. There have been some unfortunate clashes between your uniformed police officers and some young males from this community.
B. You believe that many of these clashes have resulted because of a failure of your officers as well of this recently arrived com munity to understand important aspects of each other's culture.
c. Who would you turn to provide the necessary train- ing so your officers can become familiar with important aspects of the recently introduced cul- ture in order to reduce some of the unfortunate misunderstandings and confrontations that have recently occurred?
d. How would you go about identifying leaders within the newly arrived immigrant commun who would be in a position to serve as a useful condu your agency in order to assist the recen ar immigrants to better understand the expecta of your agency both in its personal and profes sional interactions?