international 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 from confucian heritage culture countries are often perceived by westerners as having low intercultural communication competence (icc) (zhu & bresnahan, 2018). in popular media and mainstream cultural-psychological research, confucian culture is often the scapegoat for subjecting east asian international 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 (eaiss) to cultural archetypes of reticence, obedience, unassailability, and similar. in the present study, intercultural sensitivity was used to measure the affective domain of icc, and quantitative analyses were performed to investigate 1) whether international 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 (eaiss vs non-eaiss) reported different capacities of intercultural sensitivity in cross-cultural interaction. 2) did eaiss particularly identify with confucian values as widely perceived? 3) did eaiss rate stronger social confusion than non-eaiss that may contribute to low icc? 4) how did social and cultural factors of international 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 ’ adjustment impact their intercultural sensitivity? a total of 120 international 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 enrolled at canadian universities completed an online questionnaire. the results of the group comparison show that there was no difference in intercultural sensitivity and identification of confucian cultural attributes between eaiss and non-eaiss. however, non-eaiss unexpectedly reported much higher social confusion than eaiss, as measured by culture shock and language apprehension. [...]