INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND PREJUDICE

Intercultural competence is suggested as what is necessary for more mature and effective communication in the multicultural situation. What can be considered as a part of the intercultural competence is cultural intelligence. Especially in this paper the relationship between prejudice and motivation in Cultural Intelligence will be focused. The motivation in cultural intelligence is the attitude of thoughts on the multicultural situation. However, one of factors that negatively hinder motivation is wrong prejudice. What various perspectives are needed and considered is studied to overcome the problems caused by the prejudice. prejudice is researched as an element to hinder intercultural competence. Prejudice itself has multi-layered access for research. It will be meaningful to study prejudice and obstacles as an important part directly connected to motivation of cultural intelligence