Cultural Encounters

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Cultural Encounters-???????

• Actions and words that define our beliefs,
  traditions, values and culturally acceptable
  habits.
• Learned behaviors, consciously or subconsciously
  performed in daily, natural situations.
• Why do they do that?

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Goals

• To learn about and describe the appropriate
  practices of language usage and social
  interactions within the context of Japanese
  encounters through reading scenarios and
  selecting and reflecting upon various possible
  behaviors.
• To be able to use experiences and personal
  background to assist in higher level thinking
  skills such as reasoning and rationalizing,
  reflecting and applying the focus behaviors.
• To record your perceptions about language usage,
  culture and behaviors

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Parameters

• When doing a cultural encounter entry,
• Attempt to do the initial writing without any
  external resources
• Write as much as you can in Japanese, but English
  is OK
• Focus in on the topic provided and discuss freely
  or answer candidly
• Try your best-there is no right or wrong
• Write for the entire time allotted

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Format for each entry

• Year, Month, Date, Day of the Week
• In Japanese
• Weather Statement
• In Japanese
• Title of the Encounter
• Copy down the exact title.
• English

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Format for each entry

• Start time
• In Japanese-AM/PM hour minute
• Your own personal perspective on the validity of
  EACH answer-pros and cons with explanation
• In English (Japanese-where possible)
• Give specific, logical reasons for your opinion
• Reference text, background, experience as needed
• End time
• In Japanese-AM/PM hour minute

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Follow up

• Take notes of the actual answer during the
  discussion
• Find your own evidence
• Describe your own encounters with the behaviors
  introduced
• Connect to other projects-list the location of
  the evidence
• TV logs
• Community Project
• Others as introduced