We can resemble any situation or facts which we usually come across in our daily life with the pictures of simile. These pictures will be more attractive with its inner meaning than its appearance. The inner meaning of the same will be of hidden type and at the same time rays carrying the inner meaning will be reflecting from it. This is how the emblems regarding an organization or service centre can be formed. Here the intercultural training and the matter associated with it can be represented by an iceberg.
The picture of iceberg is widely and unanimously selected due to its beautiful flash lights about the inner meaning of the intercultural training. The iceberg is usually seen in the North Pole and South Pole of the world, which are commonly termed as Artic and Antarctic regions respectively. Iceberg has got a visible portion above the water layer and following it an invisible portion beneath the water. The invisible portion is considered as more dangerous because, no judgment about its dimension or occurrence under the water can be made with respect to the portion usually seen above the water layer. Crew men of the ships usually get mistaken by their false conclusions with respect to the visible portion and often run into trouble or sometimes the ship wreckage also. Thus, here the false judgment leads to a very huge loss.
Here the story of the iceberg is more or less similar to the nature of the intercultural training. Candidates undergoing intercultural training often get into trouble by their false judgments on the culture and religion of the people of a particular country. The trainees often come across with an individual or some people in a locality. The nature and habit of an individual of a country or locality will not be the culture and habit of the masses there. Hence making the judgment on the culture and religion of a group of people in a country on the basis of an individual’s habit and nature is absolutely a wrong approach. Likewise the custom and culture of people residing in a particular region of a country cannot be taken into consideration for mentioning the culture and religion of the country as a whole. These two occasions point out that, judgment on the basis of the physical state cannot be followed in the intercultural training. The culture and customs of a people in a country can be understood only by viewing the different of people residing in that particular country. This can be carried out easily by understanding their visible nature such as dress, music, dance, architecture, devotional practice, greeting nature, food, gesture and so many. Other important matters to be taken into consideration are the people’s commitments to society in which they are living. This can be performed by viewing their approach to traffic signals, spitting and throwing of waste materials and smoking in the public places.
A very detailed study, research and approach towards the people of a particular country enable the intercultural trainees to sort out the iceberg like fears as mentioned earlier. This helps them as a guide line to keep away the differences which may arise during their association and life with them.