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In this post I'm going to reflect upon the first lesson of ‘Communicative skills as a European Teacher’ in which I will clarify the words 'culture', 'multicultural' and 'intercultural'.
Culture refers to a society or an organization who shares the same beliefs, thought, values, arts... We can subdivide the word 'culture' in the following ways of life:
- Language medium of expression;
- Arts and sciences: human expression;
- Thought: the way people perceive, interpret and understand the world around them;
- Spirituality: inner well-being;
- Social acitivity: life-celebrating events or leisure-time acitivities...;
- Interaction: human contact.
Multiculturalism refers to diversity (many cultures) in a society or an organization. For example, in my first year of elementary school I had foreign classmates: from Albania, Tunesia and Germany.
Interculturalism refers to a relation, communication of interaction between people of different cultures. Most people aren't aware of how much their culture shapes their attitude. In other words, every culture is rare, which turns out in arguments. It's often helpful to look at the situation from an intercultural point of view.
Julie
26-02-2011 om 00:00
geschreven door julie.naert
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