Simulation activity was real fun learning experience. Activity was perfectly designed to see the cross cultural effects. I was in team Beta, and visited team alpha as a visitor. I was totally surprised to see it is really hard to understand their culture, even though they were speaking in English. That made me think how hard it would be for alpha team visitors to understand us (with weird signs and code word language). I think I have to work on my observer and learning skills because I am so fast in making evaluation instead of thinking in descriptive way. Today I learned that, everybody have their own culture, values and beliefs and It’s always better to learn their culture, and try to understand their values instead of comparing with own culture and try to prove somebody wrong. I think I changed a lot in last 4 years living in United States (in this beautiful Diverse world), but I still have my culture and values in me. I think we are lucky that we are learning everything as well as having fun!!
Don't forget about the DIE concept too. This really helped me when I see someone or something that is foreign to me and helps me stay in an unbiased and positive position instead. You can read my post titled DIE and see some examples of how I've used it during the week.
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