10/26/20 Week 7: Culture and Psychology

 Culture and Psychology

Culture has a way of shaming people in situations where they would not be shame in other cultures

The public transport where I live, we had problems with the limit of velocity. There are established routes after where you are living. Buses run to gain more passengers. It causes shame and panic. The morning start with the streets filled with vehicles wanting to advance to their destiny. The people inside of the buses wait with impatience to arrive at work. In this circumstance exceed the limit of velocity would be a benefit to them. The shame takes a little importance if you feel pressure to arrive on time.

The men hunted, and the women farmed

Still today, I can see differences in the drafts of men and women. There is criticism about the importance of women at home. 

The stereotypes follow-through of time. My ancestors were very rude with their families. They lived in violence. The man was the principal ruler, and the women did not have a voice. It probably was a good man to them.

Ought Self and Real Self

The competence between people being appreciated, loved, and recognized seems to be the most important. If your birth with different skills in a place where they didn't recognize them, it is difficult to survive. In the society that I grew, the university is a privilege, and the career of medicine is the most. If you are studying medicine, you are better. On the other hand, are the arts compositor, actor, drawing, and theater. If you have prepared in these, you do not are the better you are lazy.

The elements that can cause low self-esteem are the different subcultures that exist inside of every family. Future teachers need to understand that every student comes from families with paradigms marked. Students can be individualist or collectivist. They can have a power distance index low or high. In my country Peru, we have a diversity of traditions and believers that brings paradigms changing. Many families migrate to places where there are more opportunities to grow academically. These families bring their culture with paradigms that can be a misunderstanding. Their children can have problems with the assimilation to know and to understand news paradigms. In this process, they can suffer discrimination being necessary for the support of the teacher. He will help the students through experiences shared to understand the challenges to start to understand a new culture with new paradigms. 

This situation can improve having ever presented the self-esteem of every student, avoiding misunderstanding, giving place to the doubt, choosing as a teacher to be embarrassed before that the student. Teachers need to challenge the paradigms of their students being polite help them to exanimate their paradigms in a way depth.  

10/24/20 Week 7: Differences in Manners

Difference in Manners

Tossing and catching Markers

This manner can happen between friends and family. If you are in some public or with strangers, it can be rude taking, as a lack of respect. The situation and the place have importance to evaluate if we can make it. If we are in the kitchen will be inappropriate is to toss plates, knives, or folks. I prefer, don't make that between friends because this can see abuse of confidence. The factor of society has much influence. Trying with adults, you don't make it because it is offensive.

Belching

In my country, it is considered vulgar. It harms society. People, knowing it to make it between friends and family. In a formal situation, it is impolite. It is difficult to avoid when you drink a soda. Someone is a challenge to auto-control with belching because they can suffer some difficult. 

Now, remember, in some cultures, if they're arguing with you, even if they call you stupid, they might not intend to offend

The possible challenge in a TESOL class will be the misunderstandings. They would be given in the relationship with the teacher and with the students. We, as futures teachers, need to have careful in our dealings with the students, our sentences, and the way in how to receive us and to interpret their behaviors will be necessary to achieve success.

The parents would avoid misunderstanding when their children to deal with students of different manners with the next example. If I were a father, will make will use the social network to share the existence of the diverse behavior of being that there is in my family, starting with the place of our precedence. I will invite other parents to share their different manners of them with their children.

I learned that we don't know everything. We need still in our lessons with a mind willing to learn questioning if really our way to assimilate behaviors is the correct.

I think that my culture was enriched by knowing about differences in manners. In my experience as a student, the teachers sometimes only impose their model without allowing the understanding of the manners of the students.

Don't use the first name

When I was in high school, my classmates call me by my last name. It was so common that when we want to know the name of a classmate, we didn't know it. I did realize that when you don't use the first name, preferring in its place, the second name, you can feel deep respect. Teachers also called me by my second name.

10/23/20 week 7: Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

You will always be dealing with different paradigms and different situations

Subcultures are more closely of us. We are costumed to share our relations with whose is in around us. The feel sharing of have the same paradigms is comfortable. In our dealings is difficult have present the idea of misunderstanding because it don't ever we front these circumstances.

Having a mind receptive to assimilate diverse behaviors inside of class require us tolerance question our own paradigms to don't fall in negative feelings. Some experiences can surprise us, trying to assimilate wrong postures.

Some of the subcultures are more expressive than others
African Americans have a very expressive subculture

The expressivity seem to have a scale to students are from of others cultures or subcultures. If they are very expressive it not means that they are bad or rude. They act in concordance to the rules of their own culture. 

Some Asian students will go so far as to not even look the teacher in the eyes because that would show disrespect

The respect to the teacher bring us challenges to understand it. If we see behaviors that are in opposition to the rulers of  our own culture will be complicate don't feel us weird. In some places to be very expressive or don't show emotions can be considered negative.

I believe that the visual contact communicates feelings and emotions. These can be positive like respect and admiration  or negative like anger and worry.

"What I don't like about American students is that before class ends, they are always packing up their things while the teacher is still talking. It shows shocking disrespect." 

In America the time is sacred. Following this affirmation I realize that is difficult retain students knowing that in some minutes finalize the time of class. Teachers are challenge to plain with anticipation lessons letting free minutes after to culminate their lesson.

"In America, the students have all left the room before the teacher is even done talking!" 

The establishment of rules in the class counting with the participation from students can to allow an environment of respect where predominate the personal compromise to rules of convivence.

Whenever a student is from a different place or ethnic group or something does anything weird, you have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Even though you may be interpreting it negatively, it may not be meant negatively

We sometimes can have the tendency to make accelerate judgment when we see a weird behavior. These advices help us to more tolerance with the students having the wish to know what are the causes of them.

10/21/20 week 6: Attributional Tendencies Cultures

 Attributional Tendencies

The typical American will attribute his or her personal successes internally

Americans have a culture individualist from the child they take their own elections. I believe that this education received has a big impact that when they achieve success, it attributes internally. In this situation will be challenging that they recognize the success giving the merit to someone else. If the most important for them were the schedules and their own life before that the relationships of the family and friends. Speaking in this way also I realize that have the sense that when they fail they search for someone to attribute externally. 

Bias in Attribution 

They are a misunderstanding of our observation of the behavior of our society. The negative expressions don't ever reflect attributional internally. 

The movies have actors, who interpret different drafts. The spectators believe that their attribution externally is also their attribution internally of them, being an Actor Observer. It doesn't mean that they have necessary this behavior out of their work.

Augmenting to blame victim making his/her guilty totally is easy when who blames don't is the victim. If someone suffers a stole, to say that he/she is responsible totally for his/her less care makes us attribution internally letting the attributional externally, having a defense attribution. 

The feeling of improvement excite us, to recognize attribution internally, but when our visitor is the failure don't want to accept our mistakes to attribute externally to situational errors. The process to recognize our mistakes to attribute internally our responsibility to make changes that can be favorable despite situational errors, helping us to let a self-serving.

People make attribution in order to understand their experiences

Questioning us why does this happen to me. can come when living a singular experience either good or bad. The answer will have many in common with the attributions either internally or externally of the people around us.

Stable Attribution can make us that our life is predestinated. Whose have success ever will have it and who have failure ever will have a failure. I believe in success after many failures. Don't exist the predestination

 

10/20/20 Week 6: Personal Space Differences

 Personal Space Differences

"to the Germans, personal space is sacred. In WWII, German POWs took materials and made their own separate living compartments within the stockades. Germans insist on privacy of their yards and houses. In Berlin, after the war, when Germans were required by the American occupiers to share their kitchens and bathrooms, the Germans were killing each other due to the stress of having their space invaded. The order had to be rescinded."

Personal space can just be really, really huge

Personal Spaces can change across cultures taking more importance to some than others, having more tolerance, showing different perspectives about it.

It's amazing that these cultural paradigms could even be responsible for wars, either directly or indirectly.

The misunderstandings about Personal Space can cause war knowing that can it result in a sign of rudeness and misunderstanding.

If the boss of the house asks a visitor to be seated and the person innocently sits in the wrong chair, the boss can become agitated about this invasion of his territory and be put on the defensive. A simple question such as, 'Which chair is yours?' can avoid the negative results of making such a territorial error.

This question helps us to be aware of appropriate behavior. If the boss doesn't make this question, the visitor can make it. The questions are ways to understand the perspective of another who is around us.

when you're in other countries, again, watch how they do things. 

This advice given for brother Ivers can help us to use our observation to try to understand the behavior of Personal Space. Observation became an important resource to know and to identify the appropriate way to understand it.

We all have an invisible, protective bubble around us

The lack of knowledge about Personal Space can cause disagreeable experiences. It is easy to take our-self perspective about that and offended us. It is difficult to let this perspective and to ask Why did that? hearing trying to understand the behavior did is necessary.

______________________________________________

In the 1950s, the director of the Zurich Zoo, Heini Hediger, saw the evolutionary roots of this behavior in his careful studies of animals

So personal territory can expand or contract depending on the local circumstances.

_______________________________________________

The consequences of high-density living and overcrowding were seen in a study of the deer population on James Island, an island about a mile (2 kilometers) off the coast of Maryland in Chesapeake Bay in the United States.

investigation showed that the deer had died as a result of overactive adrenal glands, resulting from the stress caused by the degradation of each deer's personal territory as the population increased. 

High-density living can challenge our Personal Space lift up the stress show us the news perspective of adaptation.

Resources:

Personal Space

Deer

City

Personal Space Video

10/19/20 Week 6: Individualism vs. Collectivism

Individualism vs. Collectivism

that changing one's political party might be considered an act of disloyalty. It would be a betrayal to the group,

Collectivism

The Disloyalty can have more importance to Political Parties. They are a group with believes and goals in common. They trying to be unit in those that they want to achieve for benefit of their own country. Changing one's Political Party can cause a lack of respect for your personal compromise with the Party.

Individualism

The members of one party to search for the feeling of the unit. If they have misunderstandings, they try to resolve them, notwithstanding there are events that can cause the changing one's Political Party. Thinking that the actions of a party going in opposition to their principles and goals invite to question if Is necessary to follow inside of a Party?

This happened in the 1980s-Japan.

There was a high school baseball team in Japan. Baseball is big in Japan. And they won a championship. They won some sort of championship. And they were out celebrating, and they ended up drinking.

In the end, some of the baseball players got in this car and drove drunk. The driver was drunk. Well, they had an automobile accident.

Every one of those high school baseball players, even the ones who were not driving, only one was driving, of course. Every one of the players in that car lost his license for life.

Collectivism

A group oriented society, again, they had a responsibility for everyone.

In a group oriented society, they might have a little less tolerance for things that could hurt other members of the group big time.

Japan is a country that to have this culture. They have less tolerance and more disposition to share the guilt in the group.

Individualism

In an individualistic oriented society they'd say, "Boy just got a little drunk. He isn’t going to do that no more. He just funning around. That's what he doing. Having fun."

In an individualistic oriented society, they'll have tolerance for individual mistakes that may cause tragedy for the group and just hope it doesn't happen again.

Taking responsibility for our actions, thinking about how they can tp impact our society can become the way to work with different cultures.

The Myth of Chinese Super Schools

Yong Zhao’s Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.

But, he says, it has the worst education system in the world because those test scores are purchased by sacrificing creativity, divergent thinking, originality, and individualism

His book is a timely warning that we should not seek to emulate Shanghai, whose scores reflect a Confucian tradition of rote learning that is thousands of years old.

A system called keju lasted for thirteen hundred years, until 1905, when it was abolished by the emperor of the Qing dynasty. This system maintained Chinese civilization by requiring knowledge of the Confucian classics, based on memorization and writing about current affairs.

__________________________________________________________

Zhao quotes Zheng Yefu, a professor at Peking University and the author of a popular book in 2013 titled The Pathology of Chinese Education, who wrote:

 No one, after 12 years of Chinese education, has any chance to receive a Nobel prize, even if he or she went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Cambridge for college…. Out of the one billion people who have been educated in Mainland China since 1949, there has been no Nobel prize winner….

This forcefully testifies [to] the power of education in destroying creativity on behalf of the [Chinese] society.

__________________________________________________________

Chinese students regularly win any competition that depends on test performance. Where they fall short is creativity, originality, divergence from authority. The admirers of Chinese test scores never point out that what makes it the “best” education system is also what makes it the worst education system

China is accustomed to hierarchy and ranking, and the education system delivers both. As the only path to success, students are ranked according to their performance, and very few will win the race.

Schools exist to prepare for the tests

“no new content is taught…. A large proportion of publications for children in China are practice test papers.”

Parents pay for a year’s living expenses in addition to tuition.

The workload is three times what it is in the typical Chinese school.

To cultivate new talents, we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children’s passions, and fosters their social- emotional development.

Zhao envisions schools where students produce books, videos, and art, where they are encouraged to explore and experiment. He imagines ways of teaching by which the individual strengths of every student are developed, not under pressure, but by their intrinsic motivation.

The article presented shows us to China being a society oriented to collectivism. This orientation reduces creativity and originally of students, whose experiment the lack of freedom in their opinions and the searching for a new knowledge.

10/16/20 Week 6: Differences in Emotional Expressivity

 

Differences in Emotional Expressivity

The emotional expressivity scales.

On this scale, we realize that the emotions cause misunderstood making us feel negative feelings toward who has a different way to show their emotions.

The professor talks to us about the public showing of emotion. He gives an example based on a real bloody operation where who was from ethnic groups show them their emotions, while those who were from Asia did not show them. It takes place when students were in a group. I was amazed at the auto control of the Asians to avoid the emotions. It is difficult to understand these reactions. In my case, I will show them.

This example helps me to know that there are different expressed emotions when we are in public but these don’t pretend to make us believe that there are people without emotions because, in a private place, the emotions of us are very similar.

Cultural misinterpretation and how easy it is to do.

The professor gives an example of him studying languages and changing roles with a female student taking a draft of a friend advising her that it is better to choose the Spanish than the French. I realize that he was talking about expressing weird emotions. If before you don’t see them, you can think in a negative way. It is challenging to not feel us weird when we see stranger emotions that we do not know them.

They were passed down subconsciously, through the culture.

We grew to learn and manifest emotions around us earning experiences. These form our sense and our reactions. Sometimes subconsciously the gestures gain to the logic expressing emotions without we realize them.