Cultural Competence

Workshop (Workshop 2)

Date: 30 June 2011Office of Service-Learning,

Lingnan University

4Fs: Fun Flight Fight Fit

Stages most people go through in adjusting to a new culture

4Fs: Fun: language, food, friends Flight: … Fight Fit

Stages most people go through in adjusting to a new culture

Did I face Cultural Shock? What?

Why? How did I solve it (Or them)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFbPCj_cajY&feature=related

Cultural Shock from….

Eating habit Weather and temperature Language Religion Any others?

1. Unwarranted criticism of the culture and people

2. Heightened irritability

3. Constant complaints about the climate

4. Continual offering of excuses for staying indoors

5. Utopian ideas concerning one's previous culture

6. Continuous concern about the purity of water and food

7. Fear of touching local people

8. Refusal to learn the language

9. Preoccupation about being robbed or cheated

10. Pressing desire to talk with people who "really make sense."

11. Preoccupation with returning home

Symptoms of culture shock

Duane Elmer's Cross-Cultural Connections (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002), 72)

How can I solve the shocks?

Activity Time!

Divided into two groups: Int’l and Local

1. Int’l, local – Write down your cultural shock in Hong Kong (1 Min)

2. Show you ideas to the others3. Pair up and Discussion (4 Mins)

Activity Time! What, Why, and How to solve? Communication◦ What: local students don’t volunteer to talk as much

int’l students◦ Why: academic culture◦ How: talk more slowly, clearly

Introvertedness◦ What: not enough common topics to talk about,

embarrassment to ask for help◦ Why: “ “◦ How: don’t be afraid to ask

Activity Time! What, Why, and How to solve? Food◦ What: can’t adapt to water and food in Sichuan,

pickiness◦ Why: ◦ How: medicine, try to try new things, take care of each

other Language◦ What: hard to express emotions clearly, int’l students

talk too quickly◦ Why: language fluency, don’t want to waste people’s

time◦ How: talk more with each other

Activity Time! What, Why, and How to solve? Play◦ What: the hostel is too quiet…but hanging out with

foreigners language problems!◦ Why: ◦ How: spend more time with them

How1. Communicate about your culture shock2. Try to solve the things you can control3. More reflection about the problems

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Appreciation helps us uncover factors that we might have ordinarily missed, and it can be very useful for brainstorming solutions to problems.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_01.htm

Squeeze out as much information as you can, by appreciating the situation accurately.

Cultural Appreciation

Cultural Appreciation

One-dimensional view of Diamond vs Different-dimensional view of Diamond

Activity Two: Cultural Appreciation1. Divided into 4 groups with different case

studies2. Discussion of the case study (8 Mins)- What is the ‘culture’ behind?- How will you appreciate the culture? - How will you deal with the case? 3. Drama time (5 Mins)

My sharing…

Cultural Appreciation: Tips for the following weeks and Sichuan trip

1. Be open-minded2. Prepare to share 3. Be honest4. Make cultural

sensitivity5. Be proactive and have

participationDo a homework tonight for you to prepare to go Sichuan!

Revision Time!

Resources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFbPCj_cajY&feature=related

http://www.oddee.com/item_96372.aspx

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_01.htm

http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/shocks.htm

"The danger of a single story". http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

Case study (For activity 2) Johnny is an exchange student in country A. There is a special festival in this country called

‘Nude Festival’. On this day, males usually will go on the street with a small piece of cloth (cover the important part). Johnny is being invited to join and celebrate the festival with the other males.

Clara is an exchange student and she cannot drink. She is invited to join the beer night every Friday. Today is the beer festival for the Town B, she is also being invited to have a beer time in a pub.

Tony is an exchange student and gets used to study in a boy school. However, he needs to work with a group of girls for an academic paper. He found there were a lot of troubles working with the girls from another country, for example, different working styles and languages etc.

Mary is an exchange student in a country X. She is being invited to join a insects-eating competition in next week as this is an important competition in country X every year. Mary is very afraid of insects.