Unit 6.3. Stereotypes Across Cultures

XXII. Discussion

Individually, think of four values that are important in your culture and four values you think are important in the United States.

 

  MY LIST  
My Culture     American Culture  
     
     
     
     

Form small groups of students from your country. Share your lists and decide which four values are most important in your culture and in American culture.

  GROUP LIST  
Our Culture     American Culture  
     
     
     

 

Share your group's list with the students from the other groups and compare it to the lists made by students from different countries. Answer the following questions as a class.

 

1. Do groups from different cultures choose different values to describe American culture? What are the differences?

2. What do their descriptions of American culture tell you about their own culture?

3. What influence does your own culture have on the way you see people from other cultures?

4. How can you sec people from other cultures without a bias from your own culture?

 

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