10 oktober 2005

Lecture 3: Intercultural competence (2)

Don't forget the assignment with which I sent you home:

Are you (inter)culturally competent?

Try the test: describe - from a cultural point of view:
- a German
- a Muslim
- an American
- a Congolese
- a Portuguese (esp. for the non-Portuguese)
- a Macedonian (esp. for the non-Macedonians)
- a Belgian (esp. for the non-Belgians)

Feel free to describe in the comments...

2 opmerkingen:

Anoniem zei

Dear Mister Decubber,
I believe that by creating these examples for us to describe a certain person from the world, you are not imporving our cultural awareness. On the contrary everybody is going to think in stereotypes or is it just the intention to make clear to us that we are not cultural aware enough ?

kind regard
Raisha

Geert De Cubber zei

You definitely got a point there, Raisha, but that was the purpose of it all: at this point in the course, we are not yet culturally aware enough. But the fact that you have such a question for this task means that we are on the right track...