“Applying Cultural in Daily Life”
In my group I had 2 students one from Saudi Arabia and
second one from China. We were really good mix for this exercise because when
we started to compare our answer we had sometimes very different answers and
other times similar answers. What we noticed that in some aspects we were in
align with the home country culture in other times we were very different. I will
use my answers as an example. For the flow of the conversation I had 5 for my
country and my own preference. Student from
S.A. had his home country around 1 and himself around 4. He explained that it
feels like everyone is talking at the same time. then I asked, if he preference
to take turns, and the conversation flows non-stop does he ever get to talk. He
smiled and said sometimes I don’t get to talk because of that. I can imagine
living in that kind of environment, I will be so stressed if everyone will be
talking all the time around me. The biggest difference I had was between my own
scores and home country culture for “pace of life” and “comfort with silence”
it was 4 scores in between each of it. comfort with silence, it was interesting
I had similar scores with Chinese students. Then I gave example, that I can
walk with my friend for 30 minutes without saying anything, and that would be
such a wonderful walk for me, but I know some people feel urge to talk. And Saudi
student said “that’s me”. He said that he feels that he has to come up with
some topic otherwise he feels awkward. Then we discussed how some of this
especially Decision-making style affected our work and school if back home.
This was really interesting exercise. I had some assumptions
about Saudi Arabia and thought that Kazakhstan would have more in common with
them, but it was not true. It turned out to be that we have more in common with
Chinese student than with Saudi Arabian.
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