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Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea." webofculture.com
From a
Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air condition:
"Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please
control yourself."
From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
"When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him
melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him
with vigor."
Two signs from a Moroccan shop entrance:
"-English well speaking -Here speeching American."
crosscultural.com
1. Re-examine the course objectives:
A. Understand the concept of culture.
B. Recognize variability in human behavior.
C. Contrast cultures inherited in their own family, and country with other societal views of human behavior.
D. Gain an awareness of the process of bringing about socio-cultural change.
E. Foster understanding among culturally diverse peoples.Part Three provided an opportunity to focus on contrasting cultural patterns each of us assumed by virtue of what we learned from the families in which we were born.
| 1. | Family Tree Briefings continue. |
| 2. | Optional video - watch America - New Found Land |
| 3. | Turn in your written report today about your Family Tree. |
1. Family Tree Briefings continue.
2.
America - New
Found Land is a video about the imprint the Spanish brought as the
result of the voyages following Columbus and Coronado. It is a story of
the pursuit of gold and riches for Spain, and souls for Christendom which
sent explorers northward from Mexico. These conquerors were not kind to
those whom they displaced. The video is concerned with Indians west of the
Mississippi.
3. Turn in your written report today about your Family Tree.
1. America - New Found Land is intended to preface The Native Americans. This video, which can be observed next class period shows us the French and English influence on those who originally occupied what is east of the Mississippi.
1. Read Chapter Thirty-One "The Berdache: Gender-Mixing Among Northern Native Americans" pages 166-170 in Cross-Cultural Perspectives in America. Answer the following questions in your notebook:
| 1. | How did the Berdache differ from American bisexuality or homosexuality? |
| 2. | If gays and lesbians were granted the right to formalize their relationships as legal marriages, would homosexual marriages then be best understood as a variety of the berdache? Why or why not? |
2. On Day 2 of this last academic
week of classes, turn in your completed notebook.
3. On the day
of the final exam, turn in your essay on
And Keep Your Powder Dry.
You should pick up your notebook and take it home with you on that day.
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"All people smile in the same language" ---- Unknown
In the pictures below, I've superimposed the discovery of tropical American Indians with the European explorer - Christopher Columbus.
