tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922363996284191692026-03-18T10:22:27.800-04:00WilliamHartPhD's NotesThis is a blog about my teaching, research and service with some occasional personal comments thrown in. <br>These are my <b>notes</b> on a variety of topics. If you want to follow my blog posts on a specific topic, then see the Table of Contents in the right-hand column. While I try to work in the realm of facts, logic and moral absolutes, if there are any opinions expressed here, they are my own. -<b><a href="http://www.williamhartphd.com">WilliamHartPhD</a></b>WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-89058891398756072002016-11-22T16:45:00.000-05:002016-11-22T16:45:22.075-05:00InterculturalCom: Culture Shock: The W-Curve (W13-P3) Fa16
The cultural adjustment is not finished once an individual leaves a new cultural environment. Depending on the degree to which the new cultural environment has effected the individual, the individual may have to readjust to their home environment. The overall process is not just the U-shaped curve seen in a previous post, but more a W-shaped curve showing the return and adjustment atWilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-11453570768436937602016-11-22T16:15:00.000-05:002016-11-22T16:15:18.900-05:00InterculturalCom: Culture Shock: What is Culture Shock? (W14-P2) Fa16
When an individual enters a new cultural environment they may "suffer" to some degree culture shock.
Is it helpful to think of culture shock as a "disease" or to see it in a more positive light as a growth phase?
Have you experienced culture shock?
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As an individual moves into a new cultural environment (a new country, a new city, a new school, etc.), depending on the degree of cultural difference, the individual generally goes through certain stages.
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Some well-known intercultural training activities include "The Parable" and "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes".
"The Parable"
The study of intercultural communication has a rich and interesting history. That's one of the reasons that I study it. There is a long history of government organizations training people to be better intercultural communicators (e.g., diplomats). Out of this training WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-66270218345094311182016-11-15T17:00:00.000-05:002016-11-15T17:00:21.485-05:00InterculturalCom: Intercultural Sensitivity and Competence: Intercultural Training - Part 1 (W13-Activity) Fa16
Research on the best methods of teaching and training in intercultural communication has a long history beginning with the work of anthropologist around the time of World War II. By the 1970s anthropologist lost interest in intercultural interactions and communication scholars carried on the study of intercultural communication. Two of these communication scholars (Gudykunst and Hammer) are WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-17265415177687189892016-11-15T16:30:00.000-05:002016-11-15T16:30:03.592-05:00InterculturalCom: Intercultural Sensitivity and Competence: Principled Negotiation (W13-P4) Fa16
What is principled negotiation and what does it have to do with intercultural conflict?
William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes"
What does principled negotiation have to do with intercultural conflict?
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Intercultural Competency: Managing Intercultural Conflict
Culture can enter conflict in a variety of places as shown in the diagram below.
Now, let's shift gears and look at conflict in a different way, by using a film clip.
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According to the Bennett model, as people gain more intercultural sensitivity, they move through a variety of stages starting with Denial and possibility ending in Integration.
In each stage, people express a certain mindset or way of thinking about cultural differences. The mindset of each stage is expressed in the quotes below. In the first stage what is being denied? InWilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-65537855374404495872016-11-15T15:00:00.000-05:002016-11-15T15:00:00.278-05:00InterculturalCom: Intercultural Sensitivity and Competence (W13-P1) [VID] Fa16
In order to work toward an understanding of intercultural sensitivity, let's start with a clip from South Park which shows Cartman travelling internationally to Costa Rica.
Is Cartman interculturally insensitive? How?
What's it mean to be interculturally sensitive?
Can you think of another fictional characters that show this same type of intercultural insensitivity?
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If you were looking for clip art for "Native Americans" and all that you found were images like the top two images above, would this be an example of stereotyping? How? Use the definition. How does the bottom image break the stereotype? What exactly is the stereotype?
How do you tear down this brick?
Ask me about "Zhong Guo."
Watch the WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-67644667139818828022016-11-08T16:45:00.000-05:002016-11-08T16:45:07.027-05:00InterculturalCom: Effective Intercultural Com: Discrimination, Prejudice and Racism (W12-P3) Fa16
How do you tear down this brick?
How do you tear down this brick?
Note that there are two definitions of racism given here.
Notice any connection between racism and prejudice as previously defined?
Also, what is the differences among racism, prejudice and discrimination? They are related terms, but they are not the same thing.
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Recall the Intercultural Communication Model?
There is a brick wall between us and effective intercultural communication.
What are the names of the bricks in this wall? What specifically stops us from getting to effective intercultural communication?
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Before moving on to anxiety and uncertainty (Brick #3), I should point out that we've already covered Bricks 1 and 2.
What WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-47958580683323878672016-11-08T15:45:00.000-05:002016-11-08T15:45:05.059-05:00InterculturalCom: Effective Intercultural Communication (W12-P1) Fa16
In the past I called this lecture unit "Dealing with Difference."
However, now I've switched to calling it "Effective Intercultural Communication."
See any reason why I changed it? Does "Dealing with Difference" imply anything? A negative connotation?
Whatever you call it, in intercultural situations, how do we deal with or become more effective?
One place to start is to haveWilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-19932953943774761112016-11-01T17:00:00.000-04:002016-11-01T17:00:13.415-04:00InterculturalCom: Intercultural Romance: Activity: WWYD? (W11-P4) Fa16
The ABC series What Would You Do? provides us with a critical incident to analyze for intercultural/interracial romances.
What would you do? Why?
Other thoughts about this ABC clip?
And now this WWYD? critical incident:
WWYD?
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A variety of films and documentaries have been done on the Loving vs. Virginia case, like this HBO documentary.
Here is a trailer to the more recent film.
How do the state laws like the ones in Virginia fit into the previous discussion of internal and external barrier?
If you are curious:
Loving vs. Virginia (the case, the recent HBO documentary)
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As the number of interracial marriages has increased so too has the approval of interracial marriages. In the late 1950s less than 10% of the U.S. population approved of interracial marriages. By 2007, the approval rating was almost 80%.
See more recent figures from Gallup | Image credit: Yerevanci
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The above painting is "Othello and Desdemona" by Chasserieu from the early 1800s. It is inspired by William Shakespeare's play Othello from approximate 1603. In the painting are Othello, the Moor and Desdemona, his Venetian wife.
The title "Jungle Fever" comes from a 1991 Spike Lee film. More on the Jungle Fever film WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-43764363633392266152016-10-18T16:30:00.000-04:002016-10-18T16:30:10.112-04:00InterculturalCom: Cultural Identity and The Debut: Minority Identity Development (W9-P2) Fa16
The stages of minority identify development are illustrated well in the film, The Debut.
The stages are as below.
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Source: Intercultural Communication in Contexts by Martin and Nakayama
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The concepts of cultural identity and cultural identity development are illustrated well in the film, The Debut.
Besides helping us to understand cultural identity, the film also allows us to learn about some Filipino culture.
Here are some Filipino cultural literacy to learn from the film.
Tagalog: a key language of the Philippines
Barkada: peer group
Oo: yes
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What is linguistic discrimination?
Let's start with some examples. What is happening in these examples?
"HUD Fair Housing Public Service Announcement"
"Linguistic Discrimination in School: African American English"
Note: The audio is a little out of sync on this YouTube video, but the content is informative.
So, what is linguistic discrimination?
Linguistic discrimination (WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-89275134886847223222016-10-04T17:00:00.000-04:002016-10-04T17:00:03.292-04:00InterculturalCom: Language & Culture: Cultural Literacy (W7-P3) [VID] Fa16
This is a clip that I edited and posted on YouTube. I use this clip in my Intercultural Communication course to introduce students to the idea of cultural literacy and the role it plays in intercultural communication.
E.D. Hirsch: education scholar who proposed the idea of cultural literacy. The idea was first introduced in the book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs toWilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-67464987003879541952016-10-04T16:30:00.000-04:002016-10-04T16:30:14.936-04:00InterculturalCom: Language & Culture: Beware of Idioms (W7-P2) Fa16
Beware of using idioms in intercultural settings.
An idiom is "a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example ( It was raining ) cats and dogs" or "kick the bucket or hang one's head." (Dictionary.com). See additional information, plus examples here.
“A traditional way of saying something. Often an idiom, such as WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-28435240061807990992016-10-04T16:00:00.000-04:002016-10-04T16:26:25.728-04:00InterculturalCom: Language & Culture: Star Trek, Darmok & the Picard Principle of Intercultural Com [VID] (W7-P1) Fa16
This is a clip that I edited and posted on YouTube. I use this clip in my Intercultural Communication course to introduce students to issues of language differences in intercultural situations.
The video is set in the far future and far off into space, but does this situation seem familiar to you in any way?
The “Picard Principle” of Intercultural Communication:
In the clip Picard WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-55789575086119519592016-09-27T17:30:00.000-04:002016-09-27T17:30:00.165-04:00InterculturalCom: Nonverbal Intercultural Communication: Universal NVC? (Mr. Bean) [VID] (W6-P4) Fa16
As you watch this clip, how many nonverbal communication behaviors can you spot?
How many nonverbal communication behaviors did you spot? What did the behaviors communicate to you? Of the types of nonverbal communication functions, which where illustrated here? Emblems? Others?
Are the nonverbal communication behaviors in the clip more universal or more culturally specific?
What is the WilliamHartPhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186409541942091616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492236399628419169.post-81512641893859177682016-09-27T17:00:00.000-04:002016-09-27T17:00:04.711-04:00InterculturalCom: Nonverbal Intercultural Communication: Culture Specific (Gods Must Be Crazy) [VID] (W6-P3) Fa16
The clip below is from "The Gods Must be Crazy." If you get the chance, I'd encourage you to watch the full film for a variety of intercultural reasons (nonverbals, racial depictions, colonialism, etc.)
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