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Culture - The values, norms, and beliefs shared by a group of people
Values - Ideas about what is right and wrong
Norms - Ideas about how things should be done
Beliefs - Ideas about what is true
International vs. Intercultural - International: Connections between nations
(governments)
Intercultural: Interactions among cultural groups (people)
Cultural self-awareness - recognizing the values, beliefs, and practices that make
up one's own culture
Platinum Rule - Treat others the way they want to be treated
What are some skills needed to build strong cultural bridges? - Observing
carefully, suspending judgement, tolerating ambiguity, and maintaining
equanimity.
Effective (intercultural context) - Achieve your goals while maintaining yout
cultural integrity
,Appropriate (intercultural context) - You don't violate others' cultural norms
Three realms of intercultural development - Cultural self-awareness, cultural
knowledge/literacy, and cultural bridging.
Intercultural competence - The ability to interact effectively and appropriately
across cultural differences
Where are unfamiliar expectations rooted in the experience of an international
educator? - Educational culture
First Intercultural Stage - Denial (A person denies the existence/tries to
ignore/avoid differences)
Second Intercultural Stage - Polarization (When differences are
recognized/focused on, can be stressful as differences are stark and overwhelming
to similarities)
Beginning of cultural self-awareness
Third intercultural Stage - Minimization (Cultural differences are received but
downplayed/become acclimated to, occurs after sustained contact with cultural
differences)
Tend to assume that one's own cultural is the natural culture, that the differences
are "other", disallows for a change in perspective to understand the differences--a
monocultural perspective
Monocultural - Drawing only or mostly from a single cultural perspective, your
own. Looking through ones' own lens versus the appropriate or culturally relevant
lens
,Developing intercultural competence - Your ability to take on a new perspective
forms the basis, to develop competence you need to develop cultural self
awareness, literacy, and bridging skills
Intercultural competence - the ability to interact effectively and appropriately with
people from difference cultural backgrounds
Does intercultural contact always lead to intercultural understanding? - No. In fact,
it can exacerbate and reinforce stereotypes/prejudice in the absence of specific
conditions
Does intercultural contact always lead to increased cultural knowledge? - No.
"Bubble" effect, it's natural to gravitate toward people you understand and who
understand you.
If you speak the language, will you understand the culture? - No, language can
enhance intercultural knowledge but it doesn't necessarily determine one's
understanding.
How might being a fluent fool apply to TEFL/CIEE? - 1. If you speak the
language, you cannot assume you understand your students perspective
2. When you teach english, you should try to convey cultural context along with
vocabulary, grammar and other building blocks of the language.
Does cultural disequilibrium (cultureshock) always lead to dissatisfaction? - No!
One's ability to cope will ebb and flow, seeing difficult moments as opportunities
to learn, rather than as evidence of inadequacy, will generally be happier.
Four Fallacies - 1. Intercultural contact always leads to intercultural understanding
, 2. Intercultural contact always leads to intercultural knowledge
3. Linguistic fluency always reflects cultural knowledge and understanding
4. Cultural disequilibrium leads to dissatisfaction
Fluent Fool - A person who confuses linguistic fluency with cultural competence.
Types of culture - Nationality (ex: British or Japanese)
Region
Religion
Socio-economic Status (SES)
Metacognition - thinking about thinking
Mindfulness - Becoming aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions. In an
intercultural context, it includes an awareness of cultural roots of such
phenomenon.
Necessary to developing empathy
Double mindfulness - an awareness of the cultural values, norms, and beliefs at
play for both yourself and the people with whom you're interacting, observation
and reflection
Cultural core values - Principles that are usually learned at a young age that
members of a cultural group share and that tend to guide the thoughts, feelings, and
actions of those in the group. They establish what's right and normal, acting as the
root of judgement.
Can have both positive and negative interpretations, depending on whose
perspective you take
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