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1. Select one culture that interests you. This will be your culture of inquiry. 🙁 THE CULTURE THAT I HAVE CHOSEN IS GAMBIA)
2. Select one of the following chapters from your textbook, Communication Across Cultures that interests you. The information in this chapter will guide you as you explore your culture of inquiry and compare and contrast it with your “identity culture” or mainstream American culture. This chapter will be your chapter focus. (You will comapare and contrast Gambia and American culture, mainly focus on the values)
3. Here are the chapter you will focus on:
Chapter 6—Cultural Values: Road Maps for Behavior: (I will upload chapter 6 if needed)
4. Respond to these questions:
a. What is your culture of inquiry? In detail, explain WHY you selected this particular culture? In other words, describe WHAT specifically informed your thinking process? ( I selected Gambia as my culture of inquiry because I’m not familiar with my parents culture, even though I’ve been to Africa once, but that was a long time ago…..)
b. Which chapter from your textbook, Communication between Cultures will you use as the basis for your inquiry and exploration into this culture? Explain WHY you selected this culture? WHAT specifically in or about this culture interested you? Does this interest connect in any way to your future career goal or any sort of work you have done or hope to do in the future? Please explain. (Focus on chapter 6, I WILL UPLOAD CHAPTER 6 IF NEEDED)
5. Open your textbook, Communication Between Cultures, and find your chapter focus. At the end of this chapter you will find two sections: ACTIVITIES and CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS. Read these activities. SELECT ONE ACTIVITY that interests you. COMPLETE this activity. RESPOND to ALL of the questions in the CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS section. ( I WILL UPLOAD THE ACTIVITY)
6. Based on the information and your work in Step 5 above, formulate a focus question to compare and contrast two different cultures—your “identity” culture and your culture of inquiry.
7. To do this, review your work in Step 5. SELECT one question or activity. Based on this question or activity, formulate a question or questions that will guide your comparison and contrast of two cultures (your “identity” culture and your culture of inquiry. Note: To help you with this, think back to Dr. Jared Diamond, who wrote the book Guns, Germs and Steel and the question that guided his research for over 30 years: Why is there so much inequality in the world?
8. Respond to this question: What is your inquiry—research question?
9. Using the information in your textbook, and representatives from your culture of inquiry and any other forms of qualitative research, write a paper,or create a multimedia project comparing and contrasting one aspect of two cultures—your “identity” culture and your culture of inquiry. Use specific examples from your “identity” culture and your culture of inquiry to illustrate what your comparisons and contrasts.
10. Finally, as you recall from page 17 in Chapter 1 in your textbook, Communication Between Cultures, engaging in intercultural communication is a complex activity. You need to be aware of (1) the uniqueness of each individual, (2) the hazards of overgeneralizing, (3) the need to be objective, (4) the necessity for compromise, and (5) the myth of believing that communication is a cure-all. REFLECT on what you observed and learned through your work on your final project. EXPLAIN how this work informed TWO of the FIVE considerations of intercultural communication.
I will upload page 17.
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