My knowledge of other cultures has improved a lot in these last six weeks. I am more aware of other people around me and how they might communicate based on their cultures. Before this class I always thought what people did that I wasn’t familiar with was weird.. For example, when I saw someone eating […]
Read MoreThis article reminded me that I’m not the only person living in this world. I share this world with billions of people and we all communicate differently. When I first came to the US from Tanzania I was so confused by the way people acted. Once I was walking on my street and my landlord […]
Read MoreSome of the stereotypes that come to mind when of think of americans is that people are loud, obnoxious, entitled and that everyone in the south owns a gun. Also before I came to america I thought all americans were very rich, owned their own lands, and that america is the land of golden opportunity, […]
Read MoreIn class we discussed about what people wrote in their assignment one. Most people seemed to agree that to use the word ‘transformation’ when evaluating someone’s study abroad experience was not right. Not everyone is going to be transformed by their experience. They will be affected in some way but to suddenly say their 4 […]
Read MoreThe number of students studying abroad is increasing but all these students get different outcomes from their experience depending on which narrative they had a while abroad. Vande Berg talked different kinds of narratives that students use to view the outside world. There are three master narratives: positivism, relativism, and experiential / constructivism. Positivism narrative […]
Read MoreLast class we talked about Culture. We were put into groups and asked about what culture was. When asked about what culture people said it was arts like how they dressed or what they drew, beliefs and values of a specific people or place. One person in my group said that the geography, or weather […]
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