Talk:Intercultural relations

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 12:24, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

How to improve the article

Hi, I stumbled upon this article as part of my work with Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions. I have some experience as a social scientist, and quickly noticed that the article was written in the way that a department would advertise its field of study to potential students -- something confirmed by a quick look at the sources. Sadly, I'm not a subject-area expert and so can't contribute substantially to this article without more research, which I can't do at the moment. I'm leaving this comment for some ways to improve the article, some which I'll try to do when I have time. Some ideas:

• Go through a few textbooks on the subject and summarize their contents.
• Confirm the history of the field from an external/critical source, especially on its relationship to Christian missionary work.
• Rewrite parts of the article to emphasize the distinction between the purpose/content of active research and the purpose/content of educational programs
• Find examples of recent research on:
  • "Train[ing] students to understand, communicate, and accomplish specific goals outside their own cultures"
  • "Prepar[ing] students for interaction with cultures both similar to their own or very different from their own"
  • "Their [whose?] power and cultural identity"
  • "How the relationship should be upheld with other foreign countries"
  • The topics listed in the "Topics" section

I'm sure there are many other examples. It seems that a subject-area expert would be able to help clean up this article significantly. Perhaps recruiting help from Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology would be worthwhile. I look forward to helping improve it. Cheers! - - mathmitch7 ^{(talk/contribs)} 23:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)