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<p><strong>absolutely bland</strong><br />
We&#8217;ll start with <a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/spark/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=3612254" target="_blank">Niki Davis</a>, a professor in New Zealand who was speaking at the online <a href="http://www.mofet.macam.ac.il/tec/eng/conf/2012/Pages/program.aspx" target="_blank">Cultural Diversity in a Digital World</a> conference in January. Actually, online conferences are quite common these days but what made this one special was its attempt to include three languages, English, Arabic and Hebrew. The conference was organised in Israel which explains the three languages chosen. But what would make you participate in an Arabic session if you don&#8217;t speak the language? Perhaps the fact that simultaneous translation was offered in the other two languages? You&#8217;ll hear Jay Hurvitz who was chairing Niki&#8217;s session refer to this as he introduced Niki to the multicultural participants. Niki was talking about the place of online communication in intercultural understanding and how the blandness of online communication makes face to face contact even more important.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely pi</strong><br />
So now I&#8217;m going to invite you to think back to your maths lessons at school. Was that something you looked forward to? I&#8217;m actually one of those who people who enjoyed maths (for a short while) but I do know that it&#8217;s not everyone&#8217;s favourite subject. So our next piece is about how (and why) teacher LaMar Queen in Los Angeles, started using rap music to teach mathematical concepts. Even more extraordinary is the fact that there is a <a href="http://www.piday.org/" target="_blank">World Pi Day</a> to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi which you need to work out various things to do with circles. Come on! You remember this stuff right? World Pi Day is on March 14. Why that date? You can hear more maths raps at <a href="http://www.musicnotesonline.com " target="_blank">musicnotesonline.com</a>. So how would this go down in your town, your school? And I wonder what would be an approriate meal to eat on Pi Day? Apple pie for dessert obviously but what about the main course?</p>
<p><strong>absolutely Maori</strong><br />
In our last category, absolutely Maori, we&#8217;ll return to that trilingual online conference in Israel and find out why it&#8217;s important to learn the Maori language in New Zealand and why it is that you can&#8217;t just use a dictionary to translate into Maori. This is just a short extract from Niki Davis&#8217;s session and although the conference was in January, it was recorded and you can find the links to this and all of the other sessions and recordings <a href="http://www.mofet.macam.ac.il/tec/eng/conf/2012/Pages/program.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a> on June 1st so kia ora and stay tuned!</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a href="http://annefox.eu">Anne Fox </a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today I am going to talk about the exciting decisions of those students who broaden their horizons by studying abroad. Furthermore we will talk to an expert who helps these students get the right information and financial support for fulfilling their dreams of living and studying in another country. Last but not least I would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="photo by Justin Ornellas taken from Flickr, original capture: Hanging out in ShinChon 신촌with my friends from Ewha Woman's University 이화 여자 대학교" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ornellas/4524919801/" rel="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ornellas/4524919801/sizes/n/in/photostream/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2013" style="margin: 10px; border: 0pt none;" title="EWHA students hanging out in shin Chon - photo by Justin Ornellas taken from Flickr - click for direct link" src="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/EWHA-University-Students-03.jpg" alt="EWHA-University-Students" width="250" height="177" /></a> Today I am going to talk about the exciting decisions of those students who broaden their horizons by studying abroad. Furthermore we will talk to an expert who helps these students get the right information and financial support for fulfilling their dreams of living and studying in another country. Last but not least I would like to share an urban myth about an intercultural incident on a British Airways flight complete with a happy ending (at least for some of the people involved!)</p>
<p><strong>absolutely remarkable</strong><br />
In Germany it is normal for about 20% of students at universities go abroad during their studies. However, Anne Gründer, is rather special in many ways. She studied Biomathematics and chose to spend a semester studying abroad at <a title="EWHA Woman's University in Seoul" href="http://www.ewha.ac.kr/english/html/002/002005004.html" target="_blank">EWHA Woman&#8217;s University in Seoul, South Korea</a>. And because she enjoyed her time so much she actually extended her stay for a second semester. Anna also successfully learned the language with the Asian symbols that look so unfamiliar to the western eye. Now that she is back in Germany she looks back on the cultural differences she experienced and shares how she benefited from her stay. In our first category  she will start by telling us why she chose South Korea as her destination for her semester abroad.</p>
<p><strong><strong>absolutely courageous<br />
</strong></strong> If one of our listeners is toying with the idea of coming to Germany, our interview will be particularly interesting for you. Kata Perjési is an Hungarian student. After spending a study semester abroad in Finland, she had planned to do her internship in Finland too. However, luckily for us she ended up being our new intern here at <a title="RheinAhrCampus" href="http://www.rheinahrcampus.de/Internationales.13.0.html" target="_blank">RheinAhrCampus</a>. Kata is from <a title="Corvinus University, Budapest" href="http://portal.uni-corvinus.hu/?id=7745" target="_blank">Corvinus University in Budapest</a> and will stay here for six months. In our next category she is going to tell us, why she chose Germany as her destination and what benefits she expects to get out of her stay abroad.</p>
<p><strong><strong>absolutely ideal</strong></strong><br />
Our last guest for today is Wolfgang Kräft. He is working for the “<a title="DAAD" href="http://www.daad.de/en/" target="_blank">German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD</a>”. Together with his team, one of Wolfgang’s jobs is to travel through Germany and to inform German students how they could study abroad and which financial support they can get. They stop in bigger cities with their go-out mobile bus and provide students with a lot of information. In our last category Wolfgang will tell us what the ideal study abroad student should look like, how students can receive information about a semester abroad and finally he will give us advice on how your stay abroad could be the most productive time of our studies.</p>
<p><strong><strong>absolutely funny</strong></strong><br />
Let me finish today with an intercultural urban myth about a black man and a white woman – a story has turned into a well-copied piece on the internet over the last decade. According to different versions this incident would have happened on about 17 different Airlines which is not very plausible but the story is nice enough to be re-told here:</p>
<p>“A 50- year old white woman on a British Airways flight arrived at her seat and saw that the passenger next to her was a black man. Visibly furious, she called the air hostess.<br />
&#8220;Whats the problem, ma?&#8221; the hostess asked her<br />
&#8220;Cant you see?&#8221; the lady said &#8211; &#8220;I was given a seat next to a black man. I can’t sit here next to him! You have to change my seat&#8221;<br />
- &#8220;Please, calm down&#8221; &#8211; said the hostess<br />
&#8220;I think, all the seats are occupied, but I`m still going to check if we have any.&#8221;<br />
The hostess left and returned some minutes later.<br />
&#8220;Madam, I spoke to the captain and he confirmed that there isn`t any empty seats in the economy class. We only have seats in the first class.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Look, it is unusual for our company to allow a passenger from the economy class be upgraded to the first class. However, given the circumstances, the captain thinks that it would be a scandal to make a passenger travel sat next to an unpleasant person.&#8221;<br />
And turning to the black man, the hostess quickly said:<br />
&#8220;Which means, Sir, if you would be so nice to pack your hand luggage, we have reserved you a seat in the first class&#8230;&#8221;<br />
And all the passengers nearby, who were shocked to see the scene started applauding, some giving standing ovations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Adapted from: <a title="Airways Joke" href="http://www.thatsnonsense.com/view.php?id=1481" target="_blank">http://www.thatsnonsense.com/view.php?id=1481</a></p>
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<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a title="Anne's blog" href="http://annefox.eu/" target="_blank">Anne Fox</a> in Denmark on 4 May.</p>
<p>Until then –<br />
Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a><br />
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		<title>absolutely intercultural 152 +++ China +++ Nigeria +++ Switzerland +++IELTS +++ Orphelia +++ Koleade Odutola +++ diaspora +++</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if you can tell where I&#8217;m based just because of what I produce online! This is one of the questions we&#8217;ll be looking at in this show. We&#8217;ll also be asking whether non-native speakers of English can be examiners for a prestigious English qualification and how you can use your multi-cultural background to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/orphelia.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1965" title="orphelia" src="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/orphelia-300x224.jpg" alt="Orphelia" width="300" height="224" /></a>I wonder if you can tell where I&#8217;m based just because of what I produce online! This is one of the questions we&#8217;ll be looking at in this show. We&#8217;ll also be asking whether non-native speakers of English can be examiners for a prestigious English qualification and how you can use your multi-cultural background to start a business</p>
<p>So we won&#8217;t be mentioning Australia in this show but we will be visiting almost every other continent. Starting in Europe, I was very honoured to be asked to be a judge in the 2011<a href="http://blog.european-podcast-award.eu/" target="_blank"> European Podcast Award</a> and I can&#8217;t tell you how difficult it was to decide. There are so many different types of podcast, long and short, fly on the wall documentary to fictionalised reality. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95" target="_blank">Dogme-style</a>, what you see is what you get to expertly produced with delicious sound. By the time this show comes out you&#8217;ll be able to check out who the winners are in the different categories and the different countries.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely native?</strong><br />
Enough on Europe, let&#8217;s start the show in China where there is a huge demand for English qualifications as young Chinese look for at least part of their training abroad. The two main exams which will show you are able to tackle a university course in English are <a href="http://www.ets.org/toefl" target="_blank">TOEFL</a> and <a href="http://www.ielts.org/" target="_blank">IELTS</a>. Both of these have a spoken part of the test and in the IELTS exam this is done in the presence of a real live human being instead of on computer. So does the IELTS examiner always have to be a native speaker? I spoke with Tinting Yang who now counts among her many other activities that of IELTS examiner. Let&#8217;s find out what went through her mind as she decided to apply for the job.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely digital</strong><br />
What is the value of internet chatter? Can you tell where someone comes from by the way they communicate online? Can you even speak about nation building as part of that online dialogue? These are some of the questions which Koleade Odutola tackled in his doctorate which has just been published as a book. The title of the book is <em></em><a href="http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781594609268/Diaspora+and+Imagined+Nationality" target="_blank">Diaspora and imagined Nationality</a>, and looks mainly at how Nigerians around the world define themselves and their country in their online dialogue. Koleade is himself Nigerian and has lived in the UK but mostly in the USA where he teaches at the<a href="http://www.languages.ufl.edu/faculty/odutola.html" target="_blank"> University of Florida</a>. Let&#8217;s go absolutely digital and find out whether online dialogue helps Nigerians define what being a Nigerian means.  The sub-title is<em> USA-Africa Dialogue and Cyberframing Nigerian Nationhood</em> and you can buy from it the publisher as well as from the American version of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Imagined-Nationality-USA-Africa-Cyberframing/dp/1594609268/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1330689668&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely beautiful</strong><br />
Our final guest on the show today is a great example of how you can turn your multi-cultural heritage into a sound business proposition. Alexa Kovacs was brought up in Switzerland and is of Hungarian and British parentage and has recently started a business selling beautiful clothing and accessories which she sources in a surprisingly direct way. The business is called <a href="http://www.orphelia.ch/" target="_blank">Orphelia </a>and it&#8217;s really well worth a visit for the visual beauty alone. So let&#8217;s go absolutely beautiful and hear more about how Orphelia works. I really do recommend a visit to Alexa&#8217;s site as a feast for the eyes.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">O</span>ur next show will be coming to you from <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a> on April 7th so stay tuned!</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a href="http://annefox.eu">Anne Fox </a></p>
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<p><strong><strong>absolutely down-under<br />
</strong></strong>Like my last show, episode 151 also comes to you from Australia. You can listen to how I get woken up by <a title="Australian birds" href="http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/australian-bird-calls/australian-bird-calls.html" target="_blank">exotic birds</a> outside my bedroom window every morning because  I thought I should record my introduction at this time of the day to share this experience with you because this has become my regular Australian alarm clock. As I live just metres from the national park I assumed they must have some kind of noisy monkeys in that park but then I discovered, it was birds, such as cockatoos, kookaburras, and some very colourful small parrots that I cannot identify. After a month in the country I finally manage to sleep through this incredible noise, and if I didn’t, I would have to get up at 4:30 every morning when this dubious concert starts. This week my class and tutorial at the <a title="University of the Sunshine Coast" href="http://www.usc.edu.au/Home.htm">University of the Sunshine Coast</a> will not take place because of <a title="Australia Day" href="http://www.australiaday.org.au/experience/" target="_blank">Australia Day 2012</a>, a national public holiday. So I started asking people what this national day is all about and I received many, but sometimes contradictory answers because while this day is meant to promote and celebrate national unity it seems that every year it is accompanied by the criticism that instead of promoting multiculturalism this day commemorates the 26 January 1788 the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove where English settlers put up their flag. So opponents tend to call it “Invasion Day” and propose to change the national public holiday to another date. Let me share with you what some Australians told me about Australia Day. (If you want to find out more about Australian Identity you may want to <a title="Australian mateship" href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=160" target="_blank">revisit Anne&#8217;s show 76 on &#8220;mateship&#8221;</a> and if you want to check out what my own life in Australia sounds like, <a title="Episode 149 - Laurence in Australia" href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=1884" target="_blank">check out my own last show 149</a>.</p>
<p><strong><strong>absolutely diverse<br />
</strong></strong>I would like to introduce you to my neighbours here in Australia. Simone and Leonardo from Switzerland. Their background is so multicultural that it would perhaps be difficult for them to be nationalistic. I got interested when I noticed that mother and son were using <a title="multilingualism and the brain" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029151807.htm" target="_blank">several different languages</a> even between them during an ordinary day.<br />
Believe me I was very confused I when I saw Simone and Leonardo for the first time. From where I was sitting I thought I could distinctly hear about five or six people talking in three different languages but when I looked up I could see only two and had to realize that these two were actually using all three languages between them.</p>
<p><strong><strong>absolutely nationalistic</strong></strong><br />
Australia Day is an opportunity to celebrate what is best about Australia including vegimite, BBQs, and cricket but some people are also critical of the fact that the image which is projected on this day is a very <a title="Criticism of Australia Day as &quot;Invasion Day&quot;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day#Criticism" target="_blank">&#8220;white perspective&#8221;</a> where the indigenous people do not really play an important role. I took my microphone into the classrooms to find out what it means to be Australian and what the day actually celebrates. Let us first listen to Mark from England and <a title="Meredith Lawley" href="http://www.usc.edu.au/university/faculties-and-divisions/faculty-of-arts-and-business/staff/011985.htm" target="_blank">Meredith</a> and Josh who are Australians. I also asked three international students what they knew about Australia Day and whether they could draw parallels to national or patriotic celebrations and movements in their own countries. I talked to Daniel from Sweden, Martin from the Netherlands and Clement from France.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely barbie</strong><br />
My mate Len shares with me the secrets of the most Australian of all institutions which no Australia Day can do without. The <a title="The Shrimp on the Barbie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_on_the_barbie" target="_blank">BBQ or the &#8220;Barbie&#8221;</a>. I had never thought about the unifying factors of this very male-dominated cooking experience. It is true that every house I have seen so far had a fixed BBQ and there are even public BBQ places in every scenic spot on the coast so that families can have an outdoor experience and bring their own food and drink.</p>
<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a title="Anne's blog" href="http://annefox.eu/" target="_blank">Anne Fox</a> in Denmark on 2 March</p>
<p>Until then –<br />
Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!</p>
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<p>Happy New Year and welcome to Absolutely Intercultural. In 2010 we won the <a href="http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/" target="_blank">European Podcast Award</a> thanks to your votes and right now I&#8217;m busy listening to a really diverse set of podcasts as judge in the 2011 round of the award. Thanks to you all for your votes then and thanks for still being with us as we reach another landmark with this 150<sup>th</sup> show.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely photographic</strong><br />
Tourism is a huge industry but if you want to promote tourism to your country it is a good idea to find out how people perceive it first. And how better to do that than to use pictures? What does the name Nunavut mean to you? If I tell you that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut" target="_blank">Nunavut</a> is a country would you know where it was? If I tell you that it is in Arctic Canada do you suddenly have some pictures in your mind about what it might be like? I must admit that I had never heard of Nunavut until I came across Maarten Loonen&#8217;s interesting <a href="http://www.maartenloonen.nl/quest/" target="_blank">survey</a>. Maarten is a biologist from the Netherlands and most likely to be seen in arctic regions working on geese so when I heard he was interested in people&#8217;s reactions to images I was intrigued as to why. As you heard Maarten is very interested in getting more responses to his survey in the next couple of months and when he has had time to analyse the results I will go back and find out what he discovered. You can find the link to his online survey <a href="http://www.maartenloonen.nl/quest/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely Indian</strong><br />
I&#8217;ve just returned to work from my Christmas break which is of course a big and long celebration in Europe, North America and elsewhere, but not everywhere. Would you miss Christmas if you went to live somewhere else? We&#8217;re going to get a short update from Rebecca Chadwick who is in India for a year long film skills course. Having experienced 18 Christmasses in the UK will she miss it or be glad to avoid the tinsel and corny Christmas songs for once?</p>
<p><strong>absolutely connected</strong><br />
Our next piece reminded me a little about the Iraqi youth orchestra which we <a href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=1763" target="_blank">featured </a>last year. I was contacted by Paul Suhr who is a member of the band <a href="http://www.4nakedsouls.com/" target="_blank">Alma Desnuda</a> meaning <em>naked souls. Alma Desnuda</em> had just completed an amazing project together with<a href="http://tarajking.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"> Tara J King</a> in which they recorded a song and video with children from all over the world. This is the type of project which you just could not have conceived of not so long ago but which accessible Internet and cheap online communication tools makes entirely possible. I think that we haven&#8217;t even begun to scratch the surface of the types of rich connections we can make in a connected world and that creative people are going to find all sorts of different ways to get us talking to each other in the very near future. The project is called <a href="http://www.rockourworld.org/" target="_blank"><em>Rock our World</em> </a>and the song <a href="http://www.lifewegot.com/" target="_blank"><em>Life we Got</em></a>, is a celebration. I know that it&#8217;s a cliché to say that underneath it all we&#8217;re all the same but I think that the beginning of a new year is a good time to celebrate what unites us rather than what divides us. We&#8217;re going to hear from Paul firstly about how his band came about and then about how you compose and record a song with the help of 2000 children from all over the world. You can buy the song on<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/alma-desnuda/id299721477" target="_blank"> iTunes </a> (proceeds go to the Rock Our World organisation) and don&#8217;t forget to go and see the <a href="http://www.lifewegot.com/" target="_blank">video</a>!</p>
<p>And to do the <a href="http://www.maartenloonen.nl/quest/" target="_blank">picture questionnaire</a>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">O</span>ur next show will be coming to you from <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a>  in Australia on February 3rd so stay tuned!</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a href="http://annefox.eu">Anne Fox </a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Mates and G&#8217;day, this is show 149 of our podcast absolutely intercultural. And it is coming to you all the way from down-under, Queensland, Australia where I am teaching and doing some research for one semester. Two months ago, in October 2011, the Queen of England visited Australia. Only a month later, in November [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/kangaroo-road-sign1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1937" title="kangaroo-road-sign" src="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/kangaroo-road-sign1.jpg" alt="kangaroo road sign near to the University of the Sunshine Coast (photo L.Borgmann)" width="150" height="146" /></a>Hello Mates and G&#8217;day, this is show 149 of our podcast absolutely intercultural. And it is coming to you all the way from down-under, Queensland, Australia where I am teaching and doing some research for one semester. Two months ago, in October 2011, the <a title="Queen's visit to Australia" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/queens-visit-2011" target="_blank">Queen of England visited Australia</a>. Only a month later, in November by the <a title="Obama in Australia" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/obama-in-australia" target="_blank">President of the United States came to Australia</a>, too. And now, in December I started my summer term as a visiting academic at the University of the Sunshine coast (LOL). So who am I? My name is Elmar-Laurent Borgmann and after all these important state visits which were widely reported about in the Australian media I would today prefer to concentrate on more mundane,  everyday aspects of life in Australia as experienced by a European. And yet, I hope we will be able to surprise you with some stimulating intercultural findings. Our interviewees today are from France, from Germany, and of course from Australia.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely down-under</strong><br />
Let us look at an ordinary day in Australia. Some people back in Europe listened to my absolutely down-under reports during my last stay in Australia. They had heard about a “<a title="show 99 about Christmas in Australia" href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=773" target="_blank">Tropical Christmas by the Pool</a>”  or a “<a title="Australia Day" href="http://www.australiaday.org.au/experience/" target="_blank">National Australia Day</a>” which I described both in previous shows and learned a lot about intercultural differences.  However, some of them asked me to concentrate more on a the normal, regular, everyday life in Queensland. And they are right &#8211; we do expect holidays and celebrations to be different in different countries &#8211; but how about a regular university day? Hmm, what a challenge. I had thought this was too boring to record but maybe not? So, I followed myself with the microphone and recorded my intercultural impressions one morning from getting up at 7 o’ clock until I arrived at the University of the Sunshine Coast at 9. You will notice from my comments how much I like this part of the world &#8211; except for the first minutes after waking up – I admit, I am not a morning person. In the podcast you catch me waking up with my windows wide open to the tropical forest. In a second part later in the show I continue my intercultural report about a regular Australian morning going to work on the Sunshine Coast in my car. I would like to share some thoughts about beautiful landscapes but also of rather masculine-looking cars and trucks in this country before I arrive at the University of the Sunshine Coast where finally I see some wild kangaroos, not on a road sign but in real life and much closer than I expected &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>absolutely business-like</strong><br />
I will also take you into the university, where international students from Europe will describe how in their <a title="Newspaper Article about the course" href="http://www.usc.edu.au/university/news-and-events/news-archive/2011/Students-help-local-company-light-up-Europe.htm" target="_blank">International Marketing Class</a> they did some work for an Australian Business. The round-table discussion was recorde after an exam situation a couple of weeks ago right at the start of the summer semester 2011/2012. To me summer 2011/2012 still sounds rather weird as in Europe only winter semesters could span two calendar years. So this is just another reminder that we are in the southern hemisphere. But back to the classroom. I was invited to sit in on the exams of students on the Master of International Business program. Apart from myself as external examiner, there was of course <a title="Dr. Leone Cameron" href="http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Business/Staff/037229.htm" target="_blank">Dr. Leone Cameron</a>, the regular lecturer but also, <a title="Mike Arieni, Managing Director of Exlites" href="http://www.exlites.com.au" target="_blank">Mike Arieni, Managing Director of EXlites</a>, a regional business for whom the group of international students had done some research about solar Energy in Europe. I asked the group how this combination of international students, an interculturally trained lecturer and a local business person enhanced their academic progress. Leone&#8217;s Master course the students had the chance to get in touch with a real business man and help him prepare his business plan for entering the European Market. Just like Mike, I, too, was impressed by the depth of the students&#8217; research and I had a feeling that Mike took very good notice of the opportunities and challenges that the students presented for the different European countries. In a second part we will also hear from <a title="Waldemar Schneider's FB" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000324218843" target="_blank">Waldemar Schneider</a> and Clément Slastan about some of the stereotypes the international students confirmed when they lived together in shared apartments. Clément seems to have noticed a certain &#8220;lack of flexibility&#8221; in the Germans.</p>
<p>Once you have heard the show, please go to our &#8220;<a href="../?page_id=338">write us an email</a>&#8220;-button in the right margin and tell us whether you liked these slightly unusual intimate insights into my own life down-under and whether you would like to get more such personal reports.</p>
<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a href="http://annefox.eu" target="_blank">Anne Fox </a>in Denmark on 6 January.</p>
<p>Until then –<br />
Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a></p>
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<p>In this show we&#8217;ll be looking mostly at languages in the US and how that helps or hinders intercultural understanding.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely Francophone</strong><br />
We&#8217;ll start with Louis Michot, one of the prime movers behind the Cajun Punk band the <a href="http://www.lostbayouramblers.com/" target="_blank">Lost Bayou Ramblers</a>. In <a href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=1812" target="_blank">show 144</a> we heard about their music and what it meant to the band members as well as its cultural roots. Another topic that we talked a great deal about was the status of the French language in Louisiana. I made a trip to Louisiana many years ago and I have to say that the language was not really evident but when I talked to Louis I discovered that this was because it was mostly hidden. So the question is why would anyone in Louisiana want to hide the fact that they can speak French? And do people in Louisiana still learn French? Is it absolutely francophone?</p>
<p><strong>absolutely informed</strong><br />
So there&#8217;s a lot of sensitive history behind the survival of the French language in that part of the United States. Then a few weeks ago, my eyes and ears in Florida, Kole Odutola alerted me to a Communiqué sent out by the <a href="http://africa.unc.edu/events/seallf_2011/" target="_blank">Southeast African Languages and Literatures Forum</a> on October 2nd, which read:<br />
<em>We, the members of Southeast African Languages and Literatures Forum (SEALLF) at the second annual conference of the forum held at the Chapel Hill Campus of the University of North Carolina, acknowledge that in view of the internationalization of the curriculum at many American colleges and universities, there is the need to increase the number of American undergraduate and graduate students engaged in the study of critical languages of Africa.</em></p>
<p>In the wake of the 9/11 attacks many US universities beefed up their foreign language requirements in recognition of the fact that to understand another culture it helps greatly if you know a bit of the language. So here was a Communiqué suggesting that the foreign language requirement should more often lead to the learning of an African language such as Yoruba. But why? To find out more I spoke to Dr <a href="http://faculty.shawu.edu/dbaloubi/index.htm" target="_blank">Désiré Baloubi </a>of Shaw University in North Carolina, the Chair of the Forum behind the Communiqué. And during the course of our conversation I also learned a new acronym,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities" target="_blank"> HBCU</a>, which stands for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. So why does an English teacher start a campaign to promote the learning of African languages?</p>
<p><strong>absolutely illegal</strong><br />
<span style="color: #000000;">The issue of language just doesn&#8217;t go away and after finding out how and why Louis Michot learned French, I spoke to his father Tommy Michot to find out more about attitudes to the French language in the recent past and discovered that at one point it was absolutely illegal! We&#8217;ll start by hearing as Tommy Michot sings in French a snippet of  <em><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/la-roue-qui-pend-the-hanging/id90983748" target="_blank">La Valse de la Meche Perdue</a></em> with his band <a href="http://www.lesfreresmichot.com/" target="_blank">Les Frères Michot</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks to all those who took part and remember that if you&#8217;ve got a good idea for a show then get in touch and we&#8217;ll see if we can include it. We&#8217;re always on the look out for interesting people and ideas. Don&#8217;t forget to take a look at our webiste if you want to follow up on some of the people or issues we&#8217;ve looked at in this show. You&#8217;re welcome to leave us a comment about what you thought, a question or a suggestion.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks for your support which got us all the way to a <a href="http://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=european%20podcast%20award&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCQQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.european-podcast-award.eu%2F&amp;ei=2e-8TtXaGJO3hAel4-S3BA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHawu2C8avpCEa7dMys9MKQ8jdEcw&amp;sig2=ofvfBPJO9KaCn6zh1uDyHQ&amp;cad=rja" target="_blank">European Podcast Award</a> last year. The nominations are open for this year&#8217;s competition and as part of the PR around the award I was interviewed about this podcast and what it meant to win the award. You&#8217;ll find a link to that podcast <a href="http://blog.european-podcast-award.eu/686-686" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.european-podcast-award.eu/european-podcast-award-2010-national-winners-and-top-rankings-for-denmark-319" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1539" title="trophynourl" src="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/trophynourl.png" alt="" width="246" height="199" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Well it&#8217;s been a busy few weeks in which amongst other things I took part in the Managing Cultural Diversity seminar held every year at the Rhein Ahr campus. And this year there are pictures so here is a link to the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.10150355746987444.348906.7479932443&amp;type=3"> Facebook Album</a>. And as if this wasn&#8217;t enough, my co-host Laurent Borgmann is once again leaving for Australia for a few months. So in order to make things more manageable we have decided to go monthly. So watch out for the next show which will be coming to you from Down Under!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">O</span>ur next show will be coming to you from <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a> in Australia</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a href="http://annefox.eu">Anne Fox </a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today our show will be all about charity and volunteering. But is this all about being a good person and doing good deeds? We will talk to John Kaethler who volunteered in West Africa and admits that in his personal definition the word “charity” has a rather negative connotation. We also meet Judi McAlpine and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/Mekong-Quilts.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1907" title="Mekong Quilts" src="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/Mekong-Quilts.jpg" alt="Manager of Mekong Quilts" width="336" height="338" /></a>Today our show will be all about <a title="&quot;charity&quot; on wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_%28practice%29" target="_blank">charity</a> and <a title="&quot;volunteering&quot; on wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteering#Volunteering_in_developing_countries" target="_blank">volunteering</a>. But is this all about being a good person and doing good deeds? We will talk to John Kaethler who volunteered in West Africa and admits that in his personal definition the word “charity” has a rather negative connotation. We also meet Judi McAlpine and Sovannry Chan who both work for charities, Judi in Tanzania and Sovannry in Cambodia and who have dedicated their whole lives to charity.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely modest</strong><br />
A couple of days ago I sat down with <a title="John Kaethler's &quot;Global Transitions Program&quot;" href="http://www.brocku.ca/international-services/globaltransitions" target="_blank">John Kaethler from Brock University</a> in Candada who told me that he had volunteered for two years as a development worker in Nigeria and again for two years in Papua New Guinea a long time ago. As a teacher and hospital help in West Africa he learned that if his activity was called “charity” then HE was the one who was actually receiving it. The charity workers need to understand that THEY are the ones who are learning a lot and growing in the process…</p>
<p><strong>absolutely charitable</strong><br />
Let us jump from Africa to Asia, and specifically Siem Reap to a very beautiful place in Cambodia which I visited with my wife for my 50th birthday. I walked into a shop because they had very beautiful handmade quilts in the shop window. But there was more to that shop as I found out from some British fellow shoppers. So, after admiring the beautiful handmade quilts I got interested in the “charity aspect of the shop called “<a href="http://mekong-quilts.org/" target="_blank">Mekong Quilts</a>” and asked the manager Sovannry for an interview and she was only too happy to talk about her work …</p>
<p><strong>absolutely self-critical</strong><br />
In our last category I am coming back to John Kaethler and boldly asked him whether charity workers and volunteers sometimes need to step back a little and consider whether they are not just doing the charitable work for their own self-esteem.</p>
<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a href="http://annefox.eu" target="_blank">Anne Fox </a>in Denmark on 11 November.</p>
<p>Until then –<br />
Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!</p>
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Editor: <a title="Social Media Design &amp; Beratung | Webdesign" href="http://www.konzeptsinn.de" target="_blank">Karsten Kneese</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this show we&#8217;ll be finding out about the work of intercultural trainers. Did you know there was an organisation for intercultural trainers? It&#8217;s the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research and if you go to their website at SIETAReu.org you&#8217;ll find lots of useful information and links for intercultural trainers there. We&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
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<p>In this show we&#8217;ll be finding out about the work of intercultural trainers. Did you know there was an organisation for intercultural trainers? It&#8217;s the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research and if you go to their website at <a href="http://www.sietareu.org/" target="_blank">SIETAReu.org </a>you&#8217;ll find lots of useful information and links for intercultural trainers there. We&#8217;ll be hearing from Matthew Hill about the importance of the biennial SIETAR conference which took place in Cracow,  Poland at the end of September.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely trained</strong><br />
So let&#8217;s start the show by hearing from Matthew Hill, based in the UK, who is an intercultural trainer. I was interested to find out what that involved.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely Chinese</strong><br />
What sort of experiences do expatriates have? Laura Dombernowsky, of <a href="http://www.au.dk/en/" target="_blank">Aarhus University</a> interviewed some of the current Chinese students studying there to find out how they were finding Denmark.  My thanks to Laura for allowing us to feature part of her interviews. You can see the whole film on <a href="http://youtu.be/0gp6047W3dY" target="_blank">YouTube</a> with subtitles.  Laura is currently in Bejing as part of her journalism PhD so I hope to catch her when she returns in January and hear about her experiences.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely informed</strong><br />
While I was talking with Matthew Hill, of <a href="http://www.hillnetworks.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Hill Networks</a>, I had the impression that the business is dominated by independent freelancers so how do they find out what&#8217;s new in their field? Well one way is to attend conferences such as the<a href="http://www.sietareu.org/congress-2011" target="_blank"> Congress</a> recently held by Sietar in Poland. What benefits are there from attending?  Matthew Hill explains what happens at the conference.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely connected</strong><br />
Matthew Hill was not just a delegate but also a presenter at the conference. His session centred on what intercultural skills you need when presenting a webinar to an intercultural audience. Of course one of the key factors is the language that you use. Matthew&#8217;s whole talk is on <a href="http://youtu.be/YKygq24EUxU" target="_blank">YouTube</a> but you can hear a <a href="http://youtu.be/VF5Ge8szftc" target="_blank">snippet</a> on this show about the importance of language in webinars.  One of Matthew Hill&#8217;s latest projects is a CD about managing intercultural conflict. The CD will take you through a process lasting about an hour after which you&#8217;ll end up with a plan for managing conflict. So if you&#8217;re interested in finding out more about that you should email Matthew Hill at this address, <a href="mailto:matthew.hill@hillnetworks.com">matthew.hill@hillnetworks.com</a> .</p>
<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a> in Germany on 28thOctober 2011</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a href="http://annefox.eu">Anne Fox </a><br />
Editor: Markus Scherer<br />
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		<title>absolutely intercultural 145 +++ Internship FAZ +++ Facebook no thanks! +++ JUAf charity Tanzania +++ Tradie of the Month +++</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today our show will be all about work and will focus on different work situations. You will first listen to an interview with Kyle Hickman from California who did an internship with a German newspaper, then to Mathew Dunne, a plumber from New Zealand, who worked in England and who is currently working in Munich, Germany. Also, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://juaf.blogspot.com/2011/02/juaf-is-recognized-by-tanzanian.html" target="_blank"></a><a title="Juaf" href="http://juaf.blogspot.com/2011/02/juaf-is-recognized-by-tanzanian.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://juaf.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="Kikwe-Woman2" src="http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/wp-content/uploads/Kikwe-Woman2.jpg" alt="Kikwe Woman in the JUAf project" width="240" height="320" /></a>Today our show will be all about <strong>work</strong> and will focus on different work situations. You will first listen to an interview with Kyle Hickman from California who did an internship with a German newspaper, then to Mathew Dunne, a plumber from New Zealand, who worked in England and who is currently working in Munich, Germany. Also, I interviewed Judi McAlpine, an American manager who quit her job to found a non-profit organization in Tanzania. Adelheid Korpp will tell us her reasons, why Facebook will never play a role for her, neither in her working life or her private life.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely committed<br />
</strong>In our first category I talk to Kyle Hickman from California. At the time of the interview, Kyle was doing an internship with a big national newspaper in Germany, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.faz.net/s/Rub71F0F92B94C240AF8193D17861D4690E/Tpl~Ezeitung~Soverview.html" target="_blank">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</a>&#8220;,  and told us a little about the cultural differences he had noticed between California and Germany. For example, he seems to have detected a difference in attitude towards interns who are doing a practical training in a company. While he expected to be exploited as cheap labour &#8211; making coffee, copies or “cold calls” he noticed that his internship in Germany was really centered on the professional development of the intern – often even based on the intern’s personal likes and interests. So, from the beginning Kyle was trusted with what he calls “real work” and was able to contribute to the success of the newspaper. However, he also found out that smiling too much in the work place could be seen as suspicious in his host country and adapted his behavior accordingly. He did not find it difficult to integrate, though, as he grabbed every opportunity to be social with his co-workers. Listen out for what Kyle shares about eye-contact and how he had to adapt to a different culture.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely careful<br />
</strong>In our second category I talk to <a href="http://www.rheinahrcampus.de/Internationales.13.0.html" target="_blank">Adelheid Korpp</a>. She is responsible for the so-called “incoming students” at RheinAhrCampus. Students from our partner universities who have been in contact with her often want to add her as a friend to their Facebook accounts. However, Adelheid is suspicious of being part of this biggest virtual community in the world. Well, she is probably right because life was difficult and complex enough before we had to check Facebook and Twitter. Sharing your personal information and pictures on the internet can, indeed, sometimes perhaps be harmful for you and for your career. So let’s find out, why she doesn’t want to take part in the big social media hype.</p>
<p><strong>absolutely helpful</strong><br />
In our third category  I interviewed Judi McAlpine from the US when we both met in Cambodia earlier this year. Judi was a very successful manager for a huge company in the US. But then she transferred all her resources into a 2-years stay in Tanzania, where she lived in the villages with indigenous people and founded a charity. <a href="http://juaf.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">JUAF</a> is a registered non-profit charity located in the Kikwe village of Tanzania. In partnership with indigenous women, Judi founded a village with resources for vulnerable women and children to empower them to fight poverty. This is done through micro financing, education, and support. Check out their blog for more information. But why would someone like Judi give up her well-paid job in the US to move to third-world-country?</p>
<p><strong>absolutely tradie</strong><br />
In our last category I Interview Mat Dunne who is a plumber from New Zealand. He has travelled a lot around the world for his work. He worked in Canada and in England. Right now he is living in Munich, Germany. In every step of his life he experienced different cultural situations. In the interview he will tell us about the differences in reputation between “tradies” in New Zealand and craftsmen in Europe. It is, indeed, true that the same profession may have very different prestige and reputation in different countries. I was personally surprised during my time in Australia to find that “tradies, unlike their often bourgeois German counterparts would mostly be very good-looking guys with a cool hair- and life style and a surfboard on their cars so that in between two customers they would hop on their boards and enjoy the surf. On page 3 of cheap newspapers you would sometimes even find the picture of a shirtless “<a href="http://albert-and-logan.whereilive.com.au/news/story/crestmead-sparkie-is-australias-hottest-tradie/" target="_blank">tradie of the month</a>”.</p>
<p>Our next show will be coming to you from <a href="http://annefox.eu" target="_blank">Anne Fox </a>in Denmark on 14 October</p>
<p>Until then –<br />
Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!</p>
<p>The host of this show is: <a title="Laurent Borgmann" href="http://www.laurent-borgmann.de/" target="_blank">Dr. Laurent Borgmann</a><br />
Editor: Markus Scherer</p>
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