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Module 3 Lesson Plan 1 - Cross Cultural Psychology

 

They Came to America
Part I - Immigrants

Review Class/Internet Activities Summary Homework All People Smile...

 

 

Daily Language Blooper

These are the nominees for the Chevy Nova Award. This is given out in honor of the GM's fiasco in trying to market this car in Central and South America. "No va" means, of course, in Spanish, "it doesn't go".  webofculture.com

Review

1.  The introductory lessons in Cross-Cultural Psychology require that you gain an appreciation for the effects that culture has upon your values, means of coping, and even your survival.  To that end, consider the statement -  "We come into the world unequipped to survive."  See if you can define culture, and then list some ways that culture prepares and enables you to survive.

2.  In your homework reading from Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Introductory Psychology, you learned about the  human nature of the Dobuan people.  But Dobuans are very much unlike yourselves.  Was it nature, nurture, or human inventions which make the Dobuan people different from yourself?  Use examples to make your answers specific.

3.  In your homework, Ruth Benedict says in Chapter Two of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword that Americans expected a 3-year war with Japan, but that Japan spoke of World War II as lasting 100 years.  What is the source of such differences in opinion among the combatants in WWII?

Class/Internet Activities

1. Watch the video excerpts
2. Country Team Assignment and Schedule
3. Family Tree Assignment and Schedule

1.  Watch the video excerpts about immigrants and Virginians:

A.  Huddled Masses

They came to escape religious persecution, because of political wars, and famine in their home countries;  a new world with a new beginning was an opportunity for those so oppressed that they voluntarily left family and futures behind them.

A.  Thomas Jefferson

He shy committe-person, he wrote the Declaration of Independence which fired the imagination of all the world.

B.  Patrick Henry

Meet the initial spokesperson for revolutionary ideals in Virginia.  Patrick Henry was the first to speak out in favor of "No taxation without representation!"

2.  Country Team Assignment.  
Each class member is assigned to a group of students representing a continent. Each team should print a copy of the table for themselves with it members arranged in alphabetic order of their last names.  The team is to meet and select a country from that continent to do its country cultural report on.  The team should perform according to the guidelines for the country reports mentioned on the Psy-119 course homepage link for country reports, and organize its country report in a manner that that the team feels will best fulfill the course objectives.  Your team should present its Country Report during the second day of weeks 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 according to the following table.

Country Reports Schedule

Week 5 - Thursday, February 07, '02

North American Team

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Week 6 - Thursday, February 14, '02

South American Team

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Week 7 - Thursday, February 21, '02

African Team

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Week 8 - Thursday, March 14, '02

Asian Team

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Week 9 - Thursday, March 21, '02

European Team

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3.  Family Tree Assignment.
Each class member is scheduled to prepare a briefing on his or her family tree to the class.  To determine when your briefing is scheduled do these three things:
(1)  Make a copy of the table for yourself.  (Right-click the Week 3 Day 1 link, select print the target, and insert your names in alphabetical order according to your team.)
(2)  Put your name in the country slot using last names of your team members arranged in alphabetic order. 
(3)  Prepare for your family tree briefing by following the guidelines given on the Psy-119 course homepage link called Family Tree.  Prepare your report in a manner that you feel best fulfills the course objectives. 

Family tree briefings are scheduled during both class meetings that occur during weeks 10, 11, 12, 13,  and 14. 

Family Tree Briefings Schedule

Week 11
Tuesday, March 12, '02
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Thursday, March 14, '02

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North American Team
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Week 12  

Tuesday, April 02, '02

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(Due to the New Horizons Conference, there will not be class Thursday April 04, and all presentations will occur on Tuesday April 02.)

 South American Team
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Week 13  

Tuesday, April 09, '02

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Thursday, April 11, '02

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African Team
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Week 14
(Tuesday April 16 is an Advising Day and there will be no class.  So all presentations will be Thursday April 18.)

Thursday, April 18, '02

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Asian Team
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Week 15  

Tuesday, April 23, '02

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Thursday, April 25, '02

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European Team
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Summary

1A.  In the video Huddled Masses we discover some of the diverse reasons that brought Europeans to America. 

1B.  The video Thomas Jefferson - Part I contributes greatly to our examination of American Culture.  Unlike other countries, everyone knows when they became an American.  It was either the day they swore allegiance and received citizenship papers, or it was July 4, 1776.  Not many other countries have "learned" a creed about what it means to be an American.  Each American, unlike citizens of other countries, seems content to believe in the myth -whether true or not - "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these, are LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS."

1C.  The video Patrick Henry enables you to appreciate that Virginia got its revolutionary spirit from the Virginian who articulated "No taxation without representation."  What Virginians proclaimed became the basis for the revolution by fourteen colonies. 

2.  You should now be able to recognize the members of your team and the continent from which you may select the country upon which to deliver your country report.  You should begin to use Blackboard Disscussion Group or other means to make the decisions and finding/coordinating roles for yourselves in meeting this course requirement during Part II of the course.

3.  This daily class outline also informed you about the probably date on which your family tree briefing is required.  Use resources such as Related Link on the Psy-119 Course Homepage and the Bassett Library that specializes in this type of research to put together your plan for presenting and documenting your family tree during Part III of the course.

Homework

1.  Read Chapter Ten "Who's Afraid of a Test?" pages 49-51 from Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Introductory Psychology.  Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. What effect do gender and socio-economic status have on the amount of test anxiety shown by U.S. and Chilean students?
2. What social factors seem to increase children's test anxiety?

2.  Read Chapter 6 "Repaying One-Ten-Thousandth" pages 114-132 from The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.  Answer the following questions in your notebook:

3. Using the chart on page 116 in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword:

Separate Japanese obligations into those passively incurred and list the persons to whom obligations are passively incurred.
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Separate Japanese obligations into those actively incurred and list the persons to whom obligations are actively incurred.
5.  

Define gimu, to whom it is owed, and the time limit.
6.  

Define giri, to whom it is owed, and the time limit
7.  

Using paragraphs 9 through 17, compare the obligations of filial piety due one's ancestors from the points of view held by Chinese, Japanese, and American people.

 

Customary Behaviors (Other than my own)

Panama

A nod, a handshake, and the abrazo are all used in Panama for daily greetings. A nod and mildly firm handshake is the most common, while the abrazo, or embrace is frequently exchanged among good male friends. Women friends will embrace lightly, and make a kissing-like motion to one cheek.

 

bulletWomen should avoid wearing clothing that is revealing.

 

bulletWhen dining the host usually sits at one end of the table with the guest of honor at the other end.

 

bulletBecause of the long North American presence in Panama, most American gestures will be known and understood.

webofculture.com

"All people smile in the same language" ---- Unknown

Though America was carved out of wilderness, the Scotsman Adam Smith said in 1776 that Americans had grown in such self-esteem that their resources and inventiveness would make them one of the greatest powers that ever was.  "Unless some means is found of gratifying the ambitions of the leading men of America, they will not voluntarily submit to us, and we ought to consider that the blood, every drop of it, which must be shed in forcing them to do so, is that of a fellow countryman."

Do you think Americans gratify their ambitions by measuring their success in material terms?

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"All people smile in the same language" ---- Unknown