Summary: Remember: with culture, you are your intra-personal cultural island and have a lot to inform our class! I am learning so much from you, too, from the perspective of my island. Then we focused on all things “intra,” or how our communication with ourselves influences our communication with others:

Then, let’s enjoy Macmillan Publishers Worksheet A (attached below): For 15 minutes, please prepare your answers by reading the text and answering the questions on Worksheet A, on pages 1 and 2. All of the answers are suggestions only that will be shown to the entire class..

In groups, please discuss Workshop A, part 2, by using these prompts in your groups:

How can cultural awareness help us in business/foreign relations/diplomacy/etc?

Do you think that cultural awareness is a crucial aspect of personal growth? Why?

What are your own experiences with working or living alongside people from different cultures?

Homework for Class 06: Please choose two videos or readings that are the most interesting to you to view with the closed captions (CC) to read, and then reflect and analyze what you observed in your Google Doc for Class 06.

Please email the homework by 1 pm on Tuesday before Class 07.

An APA Quick Guide

Note: Please experiment and choose the option you like best. If the option you selected does not work for you, please try another or search for your cultural viewing. If you choose your original homework, please email me.

Then, I can share your fantastic cultural homework with the group. If you would like to discuss the same video, please arrange this with your classmate, and watch the same video or do the same reading. That’s okay too, and fun!

Reading Option 1:

Australian Government. (2020). Supporting cultural diversity. Be you.   https://beyou.edu.au/fact-sheets/relationships/supporting-cultural-diversity

Reading Option 2:

McClay, R. (2017). Four cornerstones of successful cross-cultural understanding. Training Industry: Mind The Gap, 50-51. https://trainingindustry.com/magazine/issue/four-cornerstones-of-successful-cross-cultural-training/

Reading Option 3:

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). (2011). Cross-cultural understanding. Background Briefs. https://tc2.ca/uploads/backgroundbriefs/BBCrossCulturalUnderstanding.pdf

Video Option 1: Lera Boroditsky examines how language shapes our intra- and intercultural communication and how we think about the world. 

Boroditsky, L. (2018, May 2). How language shapes the way we think [Video]. YouTube. TED Presentations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

Video Option 2: Amy Cuddy describes body language can influence our cultural communication effectiveness. 

Cuddy, A. (2021, October 2). Your body language may shape who you are [Video]. YouTube. TED Presentations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc

Video Option 3: Ike Nwala explains how he became a TV star in Japan. He also explains the “gaijin seat” on the train and how he being black is akin to being a rare Pokemon.

Vice News. (2018). Ike Nwala is a black comedian who has become Japan’s most unlikely star [Video]. YouTube. HBO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuEQtn2nm9A&t=2s

Cultural Awareness Macmillan Publishers: