Week 14 Day 2

Module 14 Lesson Plan 1 - Cross Cultural Psychology

In Search of Human Origins,
Part I

Review

Class/Internet Activities

Summary

Homework

All People Smile...

European Daily Language Bloopers

On the door of a Moscow hotel room:
"If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it."

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
"Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar."

In a Budapest Zoo:
"Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty."

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Review - Group Thoughts

1. How do you signal "no" in Turkey?

2. What should you do, both before you smoke, and before you take pictures in Turkey?

Class/Internet Activities

1.	Family Tree Reports continue.
2.	Watch In Search of Human Origins.
3.	Meet with your team and discuss your answers to the homework from Module 13.

1. Family Tree Reports continue.

We continue to hear the family tree briefings from student class members.

2. Watch In Search of Human Origins.

What was it that made us human? Was it anatomy? Was it art? Was it our tools and artifacts? If the answer is anatomy, then our destiny has been importantly influenced by biology. If the answer is art, tools, and artifacts, then our destiny has been importantly influenced by culture - that series of social processes that are learned and passed from each generation to the next, and that are created by man himself. Enjoy In Search of Human Origins - Episode #3 - The Creative Revolution!

3. Meet with your team and discuss your answers to the homework from the previous class session.

Summary

1. Today's video examines fifty thousand generations - perhaps a million years during which hunter-gatherers emerged from Africa and became either nomadic or crop growers who traveled by following herds, or who settled in to inhabit the earth. Trade, travel, and survival may have been precipitated by conditions like disease or environmental changes that sometimes threatened or occasioned mass genocide. Other theories suggest that man evolved in each part of the globe separately and does not necessarily come out of Africa as a migratory species.3.

Homework

1. Read Chapter Twenty-Five "Call Me Crazy! Psychiatric Labeling Among the Eskimo and the Yoruba" pages 132-136 in Cross-Cultural Perspectives in America. Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1.	How do non-Western societies differ from Western ones in their concepts of mental disorders?
2.	Why are religious curers not classfied as having "were" or "nathkavihak?"

2. Read Chapter XIV "These Things We Can Do" pages 159-166 in And Keep Your Powder Dry. Answer the following questions in your notebook:

3.	We run the risk, says Meade, of winning the war in the wrong way. What does she mean by the wrong way and by the right way the war should be won? (page 159-160)
4.	Do we need our full strength, and should we measure that strength in military terms, or in terms of our character? (page 160-161)
5.	Are our students being taught to analyze and use the gifts of other cultures - or merely to evade and exploit other cultures? (pages 162-165)
6.	Although this is not a job for Americans alone, does Meade assert that we must see it as America's job? What is her answer and why does she argue for her opinion? (pages 165-166)

Customary European Behaviors (Other than my own)

Denmark

	When meeting someone, a firm, brief handshake is common. Children will offer to shake your hand, and are taught to make direct eye contact with their host for the first time. Always shake a woman's hand before the hand of the gentlemen in a group situation. Please stand to shake hands with another person if you are seated.
	While driving, it is considered rude to make the following gesture to another driver: point your index finger at your temple and rotate it back and forth.
	Formal dinner parties are commonplace in Denmark, thus dress appropriately. If you are a man, you will most likely be presented with a card detailing the name of your female dining companion who will sit to your right. Upon being introduced to the woman, please escort her to the table at the appropriate time.
	To toast someone in Denmark, please wait for your host to begin. Then, before you sip your drink, look around at the rest of the group, or toast one person directly. Then, sip your drink and once again gain eye contact. webofculture.com

Greece

	To signal "NO", slightly nod your head upward, or just lift your eyebrows upward. To signal "YES", a Greek may tilt his head to either side.
	Greeks smile both when their happy and when they are upset or angry.
	If you compliment a Greek, he or she may make a puffing noise through pursed lips which is a traditional way to ward off the "evil eye".
	The moutza is a gesture particular to Greece. It is done by waving your hand palm out and with your fingers spread. It looks as a pushing motion. The history in Greece to this gesture goes back to ancient times when the faces of enemies were smeared with dirt. Americans are familiar with this gesture as a sign to signify stopping an action.
	Lines are not orderly in Greece, so don't be surprised if there is pushing or shoving.
	The "OK" sign is a signal of a body orifice, so do not use this gesture in Greece.
	To signal everything is fine, you may use the "thumbs up" sign. However, do not use the "thumbs down" sign as this would be seen as rude. This latter gesture may be used to signal your distaste for the crazy driving of someone on the road.
	When a Greek man seeks a pretty girl, he may take his and hand and stroke his chin with his finger. If the man is very rude, he would then either wink, hiss or make a kissing motion with his lips at the girl.
	When you are dining in Greece, note that your dessert spoon is placed above your plate.
	Folk dancing is popular in Greece. If you participate in the dancing, this is seen as a great sign of being friendly to and appreciative of the Greek culture. webofculture.com

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

Today's theme takes us on a voyage to main continents - from Africa to Australia, to Europe and to Asia. The tourist ship below is a metaphorical means of visiting these different places in which we have skeletal remains of the human family and its origin.