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Chapter 4 Communicating Across CulturesActivity Day

Team 3Abby Gans, Lauren Ortiz, Katie Rustmann, Kara Vickers, Tyler Morris, Andrew Rich, Diana Austin, Natalie Lyons, & Miranda McAdams1Chapter 4 ReviewCommunication is 7% verbal, 38% manner, and 55% non-verbal activities

Which is more important?knowing the language of another culture orknowing the norms, values, and behaviors that are expected by its members and abiding by them?

Knowing a cultures proverbs provides both insight into and understanding of the cultures values and practices

Understanding a cultures symbols and symbolisms facilitates communication across cultures

260 Minutes: Tango Finlandia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxZoV3t61c

3Spanish BullfightThe same phenomenon representing different symbolic meanings in different cultures.

Spanish viewRitual celebrating death to remind people that they should live a full & engaging life.

American viewDislike blood & gore and the killing of the bull.American viewDislike because of the blood and gore and the killing of the bullSpanish viewRitual celebrating death and the purpose of the ritual is to remind people that they should live a full and engaging life.

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The Lewis Cross Cultural Communication Model

How people from different cultures vary in their concepts of time and space: handle interpersonal distance, silence, and eye contact

How their communication styles are reflected in the language patterns they use

How they view the truth: as absolute or negotiable i.e. modifiable according to the situation

What their values, attitudes and world views are.

The Lewis Cross Cultural Communication Model"Cultural behavior is the end product of collected wisdom, filtered and passed down through hundreds of generations as shared core beliefs, values assumptions, notions and persistent action patterns. In other words, culture is a collective programming of the mind, that distinguishes the members of one human group from another." Richard Lewis The behavior we accept as normal is actually formed from learned and inherited beliefs based on our religious upbringing, ethnic, generational, class, and gender programming, as well as the educational socialization and the professional ethics we have been taught and accepted. All of these aspects, that we take for granted in our society, form the framework within which we think, look at life, and perform in the workplace. But they are actually very subjective norms, that are based on the culture we have spent the most time growing up within. When we travel or move to other countries we cannot assume that our assumptions are known or accepted as the norm there.

6InstructionsIn the table below, you will see three cultural templates.

Read down the list of characteristics for each and choose those traits that you identify with.

Then total up the number in each column.

Your preferred cultural style is the one with the highest score.

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8Proverbs ActivityExamples of common proverbs:- Absence makes the heart grow fonder- Its never too late- Where theres a will, theres a way- One step at a time- Life is just a bowl of cheerios

For todays activity we would like all of you to get into your teams, come up with a proverb, and share its meaning with the class.It can be a proverb from the U.S. or your teams country.

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Can you guess which song goes with your teams country?

ChinaSwitzerlandNorwaySwedenJapanItalySpainGermanyHave the class guess what country goes with which song..DONT CHANGE THE ORDER OF ICONS!! **down the first column, down the secondThe Song of Four Seasons- ChinaSwitzerland - yodeling is known thereFairytale Alexander RybakSweden - ace of base is from SwedenOkinawan Folk SongItaly Luna Rossa is a famous Italian songEnrico Macias - El Porompompero SPAINGermany- David Hasselhoff was really popular in Germany Okinawan Folk Song: which is known as Minyo always depicting either sadness , loss of loved ones , loss of hope , grievances , or finding new hopepopular in Okinawa and Japan"Fairytale" is a song written and composed by Norwegian violinist/singer Alexander Rybak, and the first single from Rybak's debut album Fairytales. This song was the winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia10