Intercultural Scenarios

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Intercultural Scenarios
Reality is not phenomenologically based its
socially created -Jon F. Nussbaum .

• What would you do in their place?

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India

• You are members of a sub-committee of the Indian
  Parliament.
• American Peace Corps workers have presented you
  with a concern about the homeless in New Delhi
  and other cities. They propose to establish
  homeless shelters and feeding stations funded by
  US money.
• You have agreed to deliberate

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India cont.

• Do you want the project to go forward?
• Why or why not?

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Maasai

• You are laiboni, wise elders of the maasai
  people of East Africa. You are not rulers, but
  your advice is respected because of your great
  age and wisdom.
• Male members of the tribe, from about the age of
  seven, herd cattle -- a measure of wealth and
  status as well as the traditional source of all
  sustenance.
• Maasai traditionally subsist primarily on a
  mixture of milk and of blood drained from the
  neck vein without killing the cow.

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Maasai cont.

• Female tribe members care for the home and many
  children and make jewelry and ornaments for
  themselves, husband and children and their
  friends.
• The cattle of your tribe have developed a virus,
  that while it does not kill the cattle, makes
  their meat, blood and milk unsuitable for human
  consumption.
• How do you recommend your tribe deal with the
  situation?

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People of the Deer

• You are members of an Eskimo tribe whose sole
  food supply is caribou. You kill enough animals
  in the spring, preserving the meat using
  traditional methods, to last until fall when the
  animals migrate south following the food supply.
  The custom is to kill and preserve these deer in
  a period of a week or two.

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People of the Deer cont.

• You have just finished the fall hunt. You
  discover the tribe faces a severe winter without
  having killed enough caribou to feed the tribe
  until the spring migrations. Death is certain
  without sufficient supplies of meat and fat.
• You are members of the tribal council called to
  consider the matter. What do you recommend?