Language Pun
A woman has
twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and
is named "Amal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan."
Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving
the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of
Amal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen
Amal."
Review - Group Thoughts
1.
In this country,
you may want to signal that you have enjoyed your dinner and that you want to
compliment the hostess. At the end of the meal, simply kiss the side of your
index finger and then pinch your earlobe between the kissed index finger and
the thumb. Where are you?
2. The chin flick has two different meanings in this
same country. Explain how to do the chin flick. What are the
meanings and what confusion could you cause if you give the wrong signal.
1. Use part of
your class time to compare your notebook answers to the homework from Module 7,
and to improve the organization and appearance of your notebook.
2A. The three
civilizing influences in Africa include nature/geography, Islamic/Christian
influences, and Western European Culture. British relations with Africa
found more important reasons for building a Suez Canal for North-South trade
rather than promoting the more traditional East-West-Across-Arabian trade.
The white settlers symbolized possession for profit. More than 120,000
Egyptians died creating the Suez Canal. White settlers went on to find
Southern Africa more hospitable to their liking. There have been three
centuries of rivalry for cultural dominance among the native African, the
Islamic, and the Western influences. Africans are not altogether happy
with the arrangement they have inherited with Western culture, and a
profit-driven world. Watch the conclusions to "Africans - The Nature of a
Continent."
2B.
The Ghandi story has as its precedent, a story that unfolded on a distant
continent, in an unlikely colony known as Virginia. The story is one that
results from a child grown up among parents whose religious differences created
an unusual sensitivity to the necessity of articulating clearly the differences
and the similarities between members of a society and between societies on
different continents. This second story is that of Patrick Henry. Patrick
Henry articulates a relationship with England in the slogan - "No taxation
without representation." It was the language of the Stamp Act, and
the American reaction to colonialization, that occurred a decade before the
American Revolution. Watch portions of "Patrick Henry - Voice of
Liberty."
2C. Our purpose is to discover how men from different parts of the
world have turned their angry tempers toward the vitriolic words of Patrick
Henry, and after revolution, also sought solace in Jeffersonian
ideals. Today's videos set the stage for more of the Ghandi story as it
unfolds in India. But the next session must be placed in its context by
the extent of Western colonial efforts as these unfolded in India. We will
gain a feeling for life among colonial powers in India by observing selections
from "A Passage to India."
3. You can complete
the optional activity by dividing into three teams. Activity 6.3 is based
on work done by Susan Goldstein in Cross-Cultural Explorations,
pages 197-198. Given specific information about AIDS in Mexico, in Japan,
and Africa, you are asked to consider how you might address the treatment of
AIDS in ways that will be effective within these specific cultures.
1. Stories,
says Joseph Campbell, are a great way to help human beings make the transition
from one stage of human development to another stage. The story of Ghandi
is an important one in 20th century history, because it draws strength from the
cultures of English law, the American idealism of Patrick Henry, and the moral
character of the Christian, Hindu and Islamic peoples. Ghandi was the sort
of nonviolent leader who influenced Martin Luther King in America. Ghandi
represents values later personified in the Civil Rights Movement in America.
But Patrick Henry set the stage for the other kind of idealism personified by
what was to become Jeffersonian democracy.
2. Rudyard Kipling, a
century ago, looking at the poverty and disease in Africa and in Asia
proclaimed "Take up the white man's burden." It was the call
wherein Europe felt spiritual comfort in colonizing these
continents. But prayer is to salvation of English souls what water
and the natural elements are to survival in the African continent.
Colonial influences did not work in perpetuity any better in Africa or Asia than
they have in North and South America.
3. The effort
of others to become free of the influences of a colonizing power were part of
our legacy when America stepped into the Southeast Asian conflict in the 1960s
and 70s. The efforts of Arab countries are in some ways parallel to those
of other impoverished peoples in Viet Nam taking on massive Western political,
economic, and military power.
1. Read Chapter Twenty-Four "The AIDS Pandemic:
Addressing Perceptions and Behaviors for a Solution" pages 126-129 in
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in America. Answer the following questions in
your notebook:
