I guess I should start at the very beginning which would be getting up at 6:45 in order to make lunches for the students going on the trip. I had agreed to help Brenda make sandwiches, but neither of us got the key for the dining hall so we had to break into the dining hall with a clothes hanger, we are now professional picks locks because we finally got it open on the 30th try. At any rate we had fun making bagged lunches and pick on each other in the process. Then all the mission students piled into the vehicles to ride to New Tribes Mission, I always thoroughly enjoy the rides on these trips because we frequently have some lively discussions and this trip was no exception. Upon arriving at New Tribes the only thing on the outside property …show more content…
I especially enjoyed watching people’s reactions as they were place into a “culture” in which they only had two phrases with which to communicate. I loved the way they had the village set up because you have no hint that it is behind the doors and when you step into the “village” you get an immediate cultural feel. I wish we could pull something of like that for Missions Convention, but that is a lot of preparation, work and space. My group visited the Yamaimo tribe first and I had no suspicion that the lady was not from the Yamaimo tribe. Afterwards when they told us who they were I was not to surprised, but it made me realize just how well they knew the languages of the tribes they were representing as well as the way in which the tribe acted and thought. When we visited the man from the Joti tribe I suspected a little bit that he had a wig on, but again the objects, sounds, and sights overpowered that suspicion. The darts he was sharpening fascinated me most because I was curious to know what they were, but it drove home the point how important it is to know the language because I could not just ask him what he was doing. I also found I related better in personality with the Joti because they were so reserved while the Yamaimo felt like they were much more animated than my personality was used to. I also found the experience …show more content…
Mowery used to call them because I have learned so much on each trip I have been on in my four years here. These trips have impacted my thinking about missions as much if not more because it takes class instruction and puts faces to missions, provides connections to leading thinkers, and interaction with other cultures. So please, please continue to do them for future groups, especially in classes which have other majors in the class because they also need to be exposed to these ideas of missions. I believe it also draws the mission students together in the road trips in ways that do not always happen in class or on
My second cultural plunge was a rather different experience. I wanted to do something different that I hadn’t already experienced before. Choosing my second cultural plunge experience proved to be more difficult. Ultimately, I choose to go to Café Beau Soleil since it was close to UCI. I never been to Fashion Island, so I didn’t know what to expect going there. When I researched places to visit on the internet I became interested in this café. Before going to the café I already started having misconceptions of what it would be like. Some of the thoughts that I had was that it would probably have foods such as French bread, pasta and croissants and that all the workers would know French. Yet, when my friend and I went inside the café, I concluded
It was strange, I had always wanted to experience what a mission trip was like. Although, when I thought about actually pursuing to go on one I would once again shove the thought in the back of my brain, in hopes of forgetting about it entirely. Until one day, I was reintroduced to the idea once again. My friend Nick and I were in Math class one day when Nick said, “
For a long time, the popular belief about anthropology was that it was the study of “far away” or “exotic” cultures. After my 10 weeks in Professor Michael Perez’s Anthropology 101 class, I now know this to be anything but the truth. My immediate thought’s for a cultural event to observe were reflective of these misconceptions – I considered an Indian wedding, a winter festival, a family friend’s Quinceanera. Nothing stood out to me.
The differences observed in society can be seen in almost every aspect of life and can separate every human from another through choice and perception. Considering a simplistic example where one driver in the United States drives on the right side of the road, compared to a European driver that drives on the left side of the road. Each may perceive that the other is incapable of driving when sharing the same environment. Yet both individuals are perfectly capable of operating a vehicle safely and successfully. The similarity is that both know how to operate a vehicle and this similarity is what creates cohesion between two individuals. The aspect of multi-cultural counseling operates across this same philosophy where the diversity of one client
In conclusion, this book gave me a whole new view on life and how we can interact better with different people. The book emphasized that culture is key to understanding people. Sometimes it is hard to connect with others because they are indicated as different but in due time we can adjust. Every culture has their own traditions when it comes to what they eat, what to wear, dating, various ceremonies, holidays and more. Reading this book helped me become more accepting of who I am and where I come from.
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
Thesis Statement: The purpose of this paper is to write a cultural immersion experience. For the purpose of this paper, a cultural immersion experience will be defined as, “conducting observations to gain more knowledge about a different culture.” The subject of this paper is Christine Smith. Christine is a 29-year-old lesbian parenting a 11-year-old boy.
A cultural assessment interview is very important when taking care of patients or their families who may be from a different culture than the nurse’s. In order to be able to better take care of a patient, we first need to know their own interpretation of disease and illness within their cultural context, values, and beliefs. Since I am Indian and my culture is a mix of the Indian cultural beliefs and my religion Islam, I was looking forward to this interview so that I am able to learn more about different cultures using my assessment.
rigid area for me at one point. I can see how religion is a huge source of support for people. Who am I to impose my values onto someone else?
Adapting a multicultural perspective includes maintaining a unique understanding of one’s own cultural background and biases, and continuously striving to work through them. In the article, “White Professors teaching About Racism: Challenges and Rewards,” Smith and colleagues sought to address the challenges that white educators face when instructing multicultural courses, and to provide them with useful techniques to incorporate into their educational pedagogies. These challenges stem from their racial class orientation and can be summarized as fitting into one of three categories: (a) multiculturalism perfectionism, (b) multicultural impostor syndrome, and (c) multicultural projections (Smith, Kashubeck-West, Payton1, & Adams, 2017). Together
What made me into the person I am today? I have asked myself this question many times before, yet it all leads back to the same concept. In fact, I came to the conclusion that it is simply a summarization of our developing years. For example, some of our biggest influences, especially in those years, are our parents and friends. Our parents help shape us into the people we are today and, in most cases, we share the same values as them. In addition, our friends are also part of the reason we are who we are. They are the first group of people we interact with and whether we mean to or not, we try to imitate them as much as we can. As a result, the three values of my personal culture that make me into who I am are respect, work ethic, and joy.
Participating in any cross-cultural event can be interesting, challenging, and a bit overwhelming. It can leave a person with mixed emotions, some positive and some negative. I believe the outcome of the overall experience relies upon the individual's ability to adjust to situations and to be sensitive to cultural difference. We must understand that these differences are what makes our cultures unique. This paper will provide a detailed write up of the cultural interaction I experienced during a recent tour of Niagara Falls, New York City, and Washington D.C. I will draw upon the concepts learned in this course, and annotate any successes or failures while building my CQ capacity.
It is absolutely impossible to deny that every culture believes different things. It 's in human nature. Humans are programmed to gather with people that share similar beliefs. Look around, even among one’s culture, it is easy to recognize patterns. People create groups in which everyone share different characteristics such as language, ethnicity, and religion. It does not matter where you go every culture have a unique set of guidelines. That 's what cultural relativism claim. There are not universal moral truths rather every culture defines what is accepted within that culture and what 's not. Moral beliefs are not considered true or false, better or worse but just different. And because of this, moral relativists believe that they promote tolerance, equality and acceptance. However, Cultural Relativism is not flawless. There are several arguments that refute its validity such as its misinterpretation of the word tolerance, and the fact that is morally infallible.
There are a lot of different cultures in the world we live in today. Finding the place you belong and discovering your own culture can be a challenge. This is especially true when you look at culture as an individual versus culture in your family, or even within your community. I’ve always been very family oriented, so that plays a big part in who I am and how my family’s dynamic works. I believe that my family has had a huge impact on the development of my culture, and I hope that I have had the same impact on theirs.
Overtime, people’s view of cultural expressions has evolved to exclude some of the stereotypical biases that were attached to certain forms of cultural expressions. A person who wore certain clothes, or had tattoos on their skins or spotted dreadlocks was viewed as rogue and could be viewed as rebellious. Not any more, the world has moved to accept new forms of cultural expressions, and people have found new ways of expressing what they feel is the right way of life and the world has begun to accept the new forms of cultural expressions.