About culture
Bits and pieces for educational purposes
Generated by the project team in 2021
Erasmus+ school project “May ICT be with you”
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
What is culture?
Source: The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
“Culture is the human made part of the environment, which can be divided into material and subjective culture.”
―H. Triandis
What is cultural intelligence (CQ)?
“ CQ is the ability to function effectively in different cultural contexts.”
―Wieke Gur
What is intercultural competence?
“The ability to communicate effectively in cross-cultural situations and to relate appropriately in a variety of cultural contexts.”
―Milton Bennett
Experience of difference by M. Bennett
Ethnocentric stages Ethno-relative stages
Denial | Defence | Minimization | Acceptance | Adaptation | Integration |
I don’t care. | I fear. | All human beings are the same (like me). | I accept, but not necessarily agree. | I can change my behaviour. | I can mediate between different cultures. |
“The Value of Cultural Diversity:
Rhetoric & Reality”
Notes on the talk that Milton Bennett gave in Tallinn (2017)
The globe is not melting
“What are we going to do with that diversity?”
Multicultural vs mono-cultural teams
Those multicultural teams whose leaders acknowledge cultural differences outperform mono-cultural teams.
Those multicultural teams whose leaders suppress cultural differences underperform mono-cultural teams.
Newtonian paradigm (Positivism)
Universal reality
Einsteinian paradigm (Relativism)
No real communication
Culture A
Culture B
Culture C
Culture D
Echo-chambers
Quantum paradigm (Constructivism)
Everything connected
The “C” culture
The “c” culture
(what people experience)
(what people create)
Reconciling unity and diversity
Focus
uniformity divisiveness
UNITY DIVERSITY
Innovation
Discussion questions
Do you agree?