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Context, Setting and bringing Colleague and Student Interactions into Focus
Culture gives us a mental map that enables us to more easily understand the
world around us and find solutions to common problems.
Thinking
Core values
Beliefs
Thinking Priorities
Attitudes
Assumptions
Perceptions
Examples: Examples:
- All Chinese are good at science - Because education has been an
- All black people are good at important avenue for Chinese to excel,
basketball and singing they place high value on scientific
- All French people love wine knowledge
- All Muslims are terrorists - Wine is an important aspect of French
- Jews are money hungry Culture
- Hindus worship cows - The history of exclusion of the Jews in
- Blondes are dumb Europe left two prominent avenues for
- Catholics worship Mary success- education and business.
- Gay men are indiscriminate
- Immigrants are taking our jobs - ********
Are based on a large sample of the
group and are flexible and evolving
- ********
Present a fixed and inflexible image of Provide general characteristics based
a group on cultural and social factors
Values
Minority Experience Sexuality
World-views
Beliefs
Behaviors
Industrialization
Language
In Communitarian Settings
In Individualistic Settings
In Individualistic Settings
Context/Community intersections:
NOTE:
These are broad generalizations. Individual people and situations will vary widely.
What can we tell about the men?
2. The student/colleague tends to smile when 2. Possible Cultural Explanation: A smile may be a gesture of respect that
disagreeing with what is being said or when being children are taught to employ to avoid giving offense in difficult situations.
reprimanded.
3. Possible Cultural Explanation: Cooperative group work is never used by
3. The student/colleague does not participate actively in teachers in some cultures. Student/ colleagues may thus view sharing as
group work or collaborate with peers on cooperative "giving away knowledge" and may see no distinction between legitimate
assignments. collaboration and cheating.
'OK' to a Westerner
'money' to a Japanese
'zero' to the French and
insulting to the Turks and
Brazilians
Thanks to globalization, we must interact and live with
multiple groups with very different cultures. It is important
to recognize that people from different cultures have
different ways of interacting with the world around them.
These differences can cause problems interpreting what the
other person is doing or saying. Thus, developing a
sensitivity to cultural differences can make a difference in
promoting positive interactions and lead to the attenuation
of negative perceptions.
Cultural Differences
Special Thanks to :
Joyanthi Ernest-Cohen and Jayshree Ernest-Cohen
for technical assistance.