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Cultural Literacy :
Cultural literacy is the ability to converse fluently in the idioms, allusions and informal content which creates and constitutes a dominant culture. From being familiar with street signs to knowing historical reference to understanding the most recent slang, literacy demands interaction with the culture and reflection of it. A knowledge of a canonical set of literature is not valuable when engaging with others in a society if the knowledge stops at the end of the text — as life is interwoven with art, expression, history and experience, cultural literacy requires the broad range of trivia and the use of that trivia in the creation of a communal language and a collective knowledge. Cultural literacy stresses the knowledge of those pieces of information which content creators will assume the audience already possesses. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_literacy
Main Entry: cultural literacy
Part of Speech: n
Definition: knowledge of history, contributions, and perspectives of different cultural groups, including one's own group, necessary for understanding of reading, writing, and other media
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cultural%20literacy
cultural literacy - knowledge of culture and other groups and expressing the knowledge into a written form with the same or similar views and thus intergrating the views effectively to another culture - Me
Cultural Confidence -
cultural
adjective
1. of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors; "cultural events"; "a person of broad cultural interests"
2. denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and
cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food"
3. of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society; "cultural roots"
4. relating to the raising of plants or animals; "a cultural variety"
con·fi·dence Audio Help /ˈkɒnfɪdəns/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kon-fi-duhns] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
2. belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance: His lack of confidence defeated him.
3. certitude; assurance: He described the situation with such confidence that the audience believed him completely.
4. a confidential communication: to exchange confidences.
5. (esp. in European politics) the wish to retain an incumbent government in office, as shown by a vote in a particular issue: a vote of confidence.
6. presumption; impudence: Her disdainful look crushed the confidence of the brash young man.
7. Archaic. something that gives confidence; ground of trust. -- Dictionary.com
Cultural confidence - relating to the arts and manners of a group or a person(s) of broad cultural interest and having the belief in ones self and abilities to be self-confident, self-reliant and or assured in relating to the relating culture(s).
