text: Chapter 1
  CULTURAL CAPABILITY
  1-106. Cultural capability has two major components:
  CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCY
  1-107. Cross-cultural competency (3C) includes general cultural knowledge, skills, and attributes. All
  Soldiers must devote time to developing cross-cultural competency. It forms the foundation
  for understanding any culture, and is developed by studying the humanities, including movies and other
  media; traveling to other countries; and personally interacting with people from countries outside the US.
  REGIONAL COMPETENCE
  1-108. Regional competence includes culture-specific knowledge, skills, and attributes that pertain to a
  given country or region. Regional competence is developed by lifelong study of a region and tailored
  training during preparation for a deployment.
  CULTURAL PROFICIENCY LEVELS
  1-109. As Soldiers develop cross-cultural competence and regional competencies over time, broad
  descriptions of their proficiency levels show the depth of their knowledge, skills, and attributes in those
  competencies. These descriptions represent a standard that culture and foreign language education
  and training are designed to achieve. The following paragraphs define the cultural proficiency levels,
  and Figure 1-5 shows how they change over time:
  Figure 1-5. Changes in cultural capability over time.