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OBJECTIVES
develop cross-cultural awareness and understanding
practice language skills
practice
collaborative skills
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WHAT IS A STEREOTYPE?
1. A simplified and fixed
image of all members of a culture or group
(based on race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, national origins)
2. Generalizations about people that are based on limited, sometimes inaccurate, information (from such sources as television, cartoons or comic books, minimal contact with one or more members of the group, second-hand information)
3. Initial predictions about strangers based on incomplete information about their culture, race, religion, or ethnicity
4. A single statement or attitude about a group of people that does not recognize the complex, multidimensional nature of human beings
5. Broad categories about people that fail to differentiate among individuals, peoples, and societies
6. Identification of easily observable characteristics of groups of people
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AMERICANS
Everyone has a right to a university degree
in________, even if it's in Hamburger Technology
The only things
that ___________has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails.
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THE BRITISH
___________eat bland food
It's so fantastic that
they are able to look at themselves with self-irony.
I think this is exceptional. They write books and make movies that tell a negative picture about them and they show it.
____________________are limited. They don't try new things.
They seem so cold in general.
- ___________was the first country with a constitution, I think. So there is a real democratic tradition in ______________.
The really crazy people all come from ______________.
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RUSSIANS
_______________consider themselves as a well educated nation.
Their
general knowledge is very good: they know a little
bit about virtually everything.
Having your own business in ____________is a big challenge.
______________are of some the most reckless, but at the same time skillful, drivers, and the most careless pedestrians in the world.
______are used to a situation where everything is unpredictable and unstable. They live in a society where anything can happen
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DO YOU AGREE THAT…
National stereotypes are dangerous because
they may provoke racial prejudice.
Stereotypes contain a certain amount
of truth.
There is no such thing as national character and therefore the idea of national stereotypes is rubbish.
The reason stereotypes exist is because people are afraid of diversity, change, and what is unknown. They prefer to cling to simple classifications, which maintain an old, familiar and established order.
Stereotypes are simply harmless sorts of jokes we tell about other nationalities or groups of people.
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FOLLOW UP
WHICH SITUATION WAS THE MOST DIFFICULT TO
SOLVE?
IS IT IMPORTANT TO PRACTICE CROSS-CULTURAL SITUATIONS? WHY?
APART FROM
PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE HAS IT GOT ANY OTHER SIGNIFICANCE?
WHICH GROUP WAS THE MOST CREATIVE?