Exercises — Week 5: Culture and Communication (outline pending)
1 hands-on tasks. Do them in order; each one feeds the Canvas item it names.
15 min · on-screen-scaffold
1. Culture and Communication Reflection
- Identify one cultural norm from your background that influences how you communicate (e.g., directness, formality with elders, use of silence).
- Apply the high-context / low-context scale: Does your family communicate in a high-context or low-context style? Give a specific example.
- Identify one in-group you belong to. How does communication differ when you are with in-group versus out-group members?
- Recall a moment when ethnocentrism (your own or someone else's) complicated a communication exchange. What happened?
- Write one strategy you will use this week to practice cultural relativism — suspending judgment and seeking to understand.
Turn in / bring: No submission — use your reflections in the Intercultural Interviews and Blog on Othering activities.