Awareness means to have knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.

Awareness can also be understood as consciousness or knowledge. To become conscious, alert, awake or knowledgeable about something

To be aware of any mental activity and the environment, to a certain extent determines the person choices of action.

Cultural awareness is about increasing awareness and understanding of the influences and impacts the culture has on the things we do, whether that be how we eat, communicate or go about our work. It means being self-aware about how the culture shapes you. It requires the understanding that people from other cultures might not do “like we do”.

Cultural awareness does not mean an automatic ability to work and communicate comfortably across all cultures. This would be termed, Cultural Competence or Cultural Intelligence.