Hi everyone,
At the start of class, I collected your journals. I’ll review them this week and return them to you in next week’s lesson. Subcultures and Subgroups: We went through the differences between subcultures and subgroups, and you came up with your own subgroups in Japanese cultures. Subcultures exist within a dominant culture and include a large group of people who identify with a set of values different from the dominant cultures (e.g. Ainu, Ryukyu, Zainichi). A subgroup also exists within a dominant culture, but they are dependent on that culture. They often include occupation subgroups (e.g. gyraru, otaku, geisha). Stereotypes and Prejudice: We also leaned the difference between stereotypes and prejudice. Stereotypes are naïve images (often not true) of a group form through one’s personal value system. Prejudice, however, is a negative attitude towards a group, which is not based on objective facts. Be aware that our cultural values and personal bias (e.g. stereotypes and prejudices) affect how we observe other cultures. Cambodian Writing Exchange Project: As part of the intercultural awareness component of our course, you'll be participating in a writing exchange with one of my Cambodian students who attend the Bayon English Academy in Siem Reap. We had a short slide presentation on Cambodia and the challenges for students to get an education. We also went through the Letter Writing Guidelines. In next week's lesson, you'll have time to discuss letter #1 before you submit it to me. Homework: 1. Write Letter #1: self-introduction and lifestyle 2. Blog Posting #3 3. Reading, chapter 3, pp. 59-76 Blog Question #3: How do stereotypes and prejudice affect intercultural communication? Include specific examples in your answer. *Write 8-10 sentences. *Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly. *Submit by Monday, April 27 by 6:00pm.
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IE3S-Sayaka
4/23/2015 06:19:16 pm
We learned about stereotypes and prejudice in our last class. It was very surprising for me to have some kinds of them unconsciously. As Nicole said, most of them come from the way medias such as TV, newspapers, radio transport news in those countries. Our stereotypes and prejudice are resolved only by learning about them, or seeing how do people in those countries live on our own eyes. Stereotypes and prejudice affect intercultural communication when you communicate not only with people from such countries, but also people from different countries. You can't tell things you are not sure that to be truth, because people are apt to believe in what people from other countries said. But you can learn or look directly at them and spread the real state about what happened on those countries to the world.
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IE3S-Kentaro
4/25/2015 05:53:53 pm
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IE3S-Saya
4/25/2015 08:28:35 pm
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IE3S-Yumi
4/26/2015 02:21:08 am
In the last class, it was quite interesting that our images towards developing countries had nothing positive. But after we saw the letters from Cambodian children, it turned out to images that were positive, or we even noticed that they were just like us. They do have food and jobs and they enjoy music too. According to this, we tend to have negative images that are often different from what it is really like to live in developing countries. Those stereotype and prejudice could affect our intercultural communication behavior towards people from different country. One of my such experience is that when I was in Canada having a stereotype that Canadian are all open, they are like friends with everyone even they meet for the first time. But when I was at school trying to be like Canadian I had imagined, and talked to other students, not all of their response were open. They were shy too, just like Japanese. We cannot believe in what we don't see and make up the images that are not true.
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IE3S-Manami
4/26/2015 01:43:13 pm
I was surprised that we happened to have some stereotypes with other cultures we need to be aware of that stereotype can easily be prejudice. In the class we saw a picture of house in Vietnam and we all thought people who live their must be poor and unhealthy. I really did had a stereotype that African countries and some south East Asian countries are poor and they have worse lifestyle than us. However, I wasn't right. Some countries are really poor and needs help but for example South Africa, they live like us. It is very dangerous that stereotypes can be prejudice so easily and I think what we've learnt in our last class was very important.
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IE3S-Yuma
4/26/2015 02:45:21 pm
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IE3S-Takahiro
4/26/2015 04:41:08 pm
Many of our ideas on matters could consist of our prejudice and stereotypes. Understanding them precisely would be almost impossible, unless we see the internal parts of them, what they are in reality. For we are apt to see only the surface of them. And we tend to make our minds up on what we have never experienced through only what we have ever seen.
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IE3S-Kohei
4/26/2015 04:58:58 pm
In my opinion, the most biggest reason of stereotypes and prejudice is TV. A few years ago, we watched many programs that broadcasted the news of disturbance against Japanese company in China. They reported as if all of Chinese people did it so that we thought that all of Chinese people hated Japan. However, of course, it is not true. Before I went to Beijing, I felt uneasy about trip. However, I felt that they were kind and friendly during the trip. I think I couldn't feel it unless I actually went there. In order not to have prejudices toward other cultures, we should try to know people in other cultures by communicating with them, not by watching mass media such as TV.
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IE3S-Jumpei
4/26/2015 07:09:54 pm
Stereotypes and prejudice are surrounding us daily. We even bear stereotypes to the products around us. For example, a cup would be normally be used as a container to drink something. However changing views, it could also be used as a pen holder or a vase. But these ideas would never be found if we don't wipe off the major image. Like this, if we have a stereotype against a different culture and when you realize the reality, it would be hard for you to receive it. In worse cases you could act in a negative way and hurt someone, which is called a prejudice. So what's important, you have to be tolerant to other cultures, and do not act or even bear bad images before checking the reality yourself.
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