Culture 8 Abroad

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The most important exercise is to get a better knowledge of oneself. What aspects of behaviour and communication do you find difficult? Where are your personal limits? Is that in certain types of food (colour, smell and so on) or clothing. You do not need to pay attention to things that you do more or less automatically right but you should rather focus of overcoming barriers of psychological resistance.

Dealing with Cultural Differences

Dealing with different cultures is an individual question because culture ultimately means something different to all and everybody. Please indicate how you how you would like to do that (dealing with (national) cultural differences). Just because the topic is so wide, it does not really matter where you start.

The following YouTube videos may serve for inspiration.

▼youtu.be/a5bpaTl0ELM It has the

title Bridging race and culture -

the story of Busboys & Poets and

tells how may create an

environment in which you

reconcile cultural differences and

commonalities in one

environment (formally:

transcultural).

▼youtu.be/aDfoudegLn8 This video

shows that internationalisation

starts at home: talk to people with

different (national) cultural

backgrounds and you get already

a pretty good idea (although you

will not be immersed in another

culture and surrounded by people

who speak a language you do not

understand).

▼youtu.be/ZDvLk7e2Irc Here you

get four tips for helping you

along. You may stretch them (by

adding interpretations) in such a

way that you only need additional

specific information.

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Culture 8 Abroad

By Pieter

duty trip, student exchange, expat, living abroad, preparation for stay abroad, culture shock, dealing with cultural differences

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