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It’s all about you: our readers.
No matter how passionate one is about something, sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to devote ourselves to that passion as much as we would like. We’re sure you know what we mean!
We know our readers are passionate about education. And that you’re also interested in cross-cultural communication. In other words, we know you enjoy reading our blog.
However, we also know that life might not have permitted you to read every single one of our posts this month. So we started an It’s All About You: Month in Review series, which we’ll post at the end of every month.
The goal of this new series is to highlight for you, our readers, some of the most interesting posts in each topic we blog about. So whenever you have a busy month, don’t worry, we’ll help you catch up!
Month in Reviews are also perfect posts to forward to your friends and colleagues who might enjoy sampling CulturallyTeaching.
Month in Review – November Edition
::: How you count cash: A cultural thing?
According to the video, yes! Watch it to find out if you count cash the way the video says people in your country do.
::: What’s your communication style?
There’s no question that culture has a huge impact on how people learn to communicate with one another. In this Culture School post, Anamaria kicks off a series of articles on communication styles across cultures by explaining how doing and being cultures often communicate differently.
::: The danger of a single story
Reader Lisa Velazquez mentioned this video in her comment on Cate’s post about a thought-provoking Mercy Corps commercial. As Lisa noted in her comment, this video sparked her (and us) to consider the question where do I hold a single story that prevents me from seeing the complete story of a person or a place?
::: The stories of culture
Stories make up a large part of any conversation we have about culture. Life offers some of the best examples to illustrate the cultural theory that we both learned in school, so we’re always on a quest for more stories. Read this post for two stories that beautifully illustrate how deeply perceptions of time permeate cultures.
What’s in store for December?
Here’s a glimpse of what we’re working on for the final month of the year:
::: A holiday gift-giving guide for 2009
::: An interview with Álvaro Mediavilla, an English/Spanish teacher and Bablingua co-founder living in Madrid, Spain. (Bablingua creates culturally authentic videos for Spanish teachers and their students.)
::: Pamela, who’s wrapping up the school year in Argentina, shares her students’ School Snapshots and an exciting new project we’re taking world-wide
::: Anamaria turns her Romanian on
::: Cate discovers 30+ everyday ways to learn about other cultures
And much, much more…
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