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A Research Study On Global Mindset

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A global mindset is one that can manipulate groups of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures (Griffin, p. 7). Recently, I took a test to score my global mindset. There were ten questions that I had to respond to with a number from one to five. One being that I would strongly disagree and five being that I would strongly agree. My global mindset score was 43, which means that I am “open to meeting people from a variety of cultures” (Griffin, p.7). Although my global score was high, I learned that there are additional steps to improve my global mindset, such as learning another language, volunteering for international organizations, and developing specific behaviors.
First, I will respond and explain on how I based my score for each of the questions. For the first statement, “In Interacting with others, I assign equal status to people regardless of their national origin,” (Griffin, 2014, p. 7), I ranked this as a five because overall it makes no difference as to where an individual is from.
For the second statement, “I consider myself as equally open to ideas from other countries and cultures as I am to ideas from my own country and culture of origin,” (Griffin, 2014, p. 7), I rated this as a four. My reason for not giving it a five is because although I am open to other cultures and ideas from other cultures, I find myself remembering my own experiences from traveling. For example, when I was in Costa Rica, I loved meeting new people and trying new foods. One day, I

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