Culture Orientation

What's the point of study abroad?

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Agenda

• What is culture?
• Where does it come from?
• Aren't we just talking about stereotypes? Aren't they bad?
• How can I learn more?

Culture:
The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior

"Three Ways to Speak English"

What did we learn?

• What was the shared value in this case?
• With whom did she share it?
• Was her grammar good?

Cultural Relatavism:
An individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.

Where does culture come from?

Adaptive Mechanism: a behavior, strategy, or technique for obtaining food and surviving in a particular environment.

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What's the difference between a cultural norm and a sterotype?

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Our goal is to identify the dominant narrative (culture) while recognizing minority narratives (sub-cultures).

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Poll

Stereotype:
A fixed notion or conception of people based on their group identity.

Cliché:
A phrase or expression that has been used so often that it is no longer original, interesting or meaningful

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Poll

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Andrew Carnegie

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What's a more interesting statement?

What's the counter-narrative?

Rosie

Dr. King

Internment

Black & white

grey

How Can I Learn More?

Talk to people.

What Makes a Good Question?

• Shows curiosity & humility
• Allows individual to speak
• Doesn't make assumptions'
• Doesn't make judgements

Bad question:
I've heard Italians are always late. Is that true?

Bad question:
Why are Italians always late?

Good question:
How do Italians experience time?

Practice!

Observe

Tell me something about this.

D.I.A.

• Describe - facts only
• Interpret - I think its...
• Analyze - good or bad?

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Challenge