The global economic variation has fascinated the people of the world to migrate to various countries where there is economic stability. This forced them to mingle with the people of various countries having different culture and language. So they wanted awareness about the different culture and languages of the world. Thus the intercultural training became very popular world wide.
The intercultural training brings information about a particular culture and religion. Demarcating them with respect to their behavior, values and action produces negative effect. Hence the rigid opinion about the intercultural training is that it stereotypes people.
Stereotyping is a negative statement about a group of people. A person’s behavior and nature cannot be taken in to consideration for making any conclusion or opinion about a group of people in that same category. This termed as stereotyping of people. Stereotyping is an incorrect perception of people on the basis of minimum experimental evidence. Because of to this, people are not only reluctant to make opinions on the basis of stereotyping, but also not prefer to make judgment about a group of people on the basis of one’s own merit.
Inter cultural training therefore provide people with some kind of standard against which they have to make reference on people. This can be done through generalization rather than stereotyping. Generalizations are entirely different and more reliable than stereotyping. Intercultural training enables the trainees to observe the people of various culture and language and to trace out their commonalities in behavior and life style. Based on these facts they can make some reliable general opinions about the observed people. This type of generalization must be long term slow process, because the general opinion arising from this is highly valuable.
Some demerits also are there in the case of the generalization. This brings the accurate picture of the country as a whole or the people as a whole. But there are various layers of people who follow different culture, language and life style in one country itself. All of them fall under the common category of their national culture and share the common peculiarities of the same. This plus point of the national culture gives some limelight to the generalization.
A salient feature of the intercultural training is that, it insists the trainees to avoid using the general views on the culture of the people of various countries. During the training they encourage their candidates to aware one another through personal interaction. The real intercultural knowledge is attained only through experience. From the training they become capable to deal the situation generally. This will be helpful to them as a safety measure, if they have to work in that particular country. The major part of the knowledge can be received only by the close association with the people of that respective country.
In general the intercultural training provides the generalization of the people rather than the stereotyping. This generalization is based on research and careful observation on the culture of the people, which is termed as the guidelines about a country and its culture. These guidelines act as an intercultural safety measure to those who have to work with the people there. Hence generalization is more helpful and reliable than stereotyping.