My Reflection about Culture

My reflection about Culture

      What is culture? Are there many Kinds of culture? How many? These questions and more across my mind at the first week of our class. One year ago I suggested to one of my teachers in an English institute I studied in to open a culture class but the did not for some reason. The culture things interested me especially the formal things. Three weeks ago I had no idea what is the formal culture that I just said I am interested in. And In this class i learned more and more.

      We read, think, seek and do I will give an example for each one. We start our class on Monday by looking at The Red-eye searching for a topic interested us to read it and discuss it with the class or our group so, we read, think and speak. In the class, we all know many things about American culture, What about other cultures?! We have the chance to learn more about other culture by listing to our classmates explaining their Boster. Creating a boster might seems easy but it is not. I think we have to look for different types of posters and see what things are interested people and might be new to them we also have to write an explanation. so, we have to read, search, write, think and do at the same assignment. Moreover, We have read different kinds of reading such as reflection and poem. We also listing, speak and write so, I am sure that I improve my skills and the best part that I enjoyed everything I had done.

     Let's be more specific, The first reading we had was Introduction to Culture in this one we looked for the main idea, summarize each paragraph, looked for new words and underline the important ideas. Some of the new words were Inculturation, culture shock, Ethnocentrism, and Ethnographer.From that reading I learned what is culture and the four characteristics of culture.The second we drew the culture Iceberg while we are listing to lecture about The culture Iceberg then we complete a table for culture Iceberg. From this work, we learn the basic things such as The tree kinds of culture Formal, Informal and technical. In those papers we listening, writing, discuss and think. Moreover, we read the Reflection on Culture identity this one was hard for me but as my teacher says if it is too easy it is not helpful.

      However, My aha moment was when the teacher explain why American say Excuse me even if they do not touch you. Also, when I read the five stages of culture shock I understood why I had a different feeling when I came to the USA.

More fun and learn at the same time, We had a project using a movie to learn new things about other culture. Before this project, I did not know that I can learn that much from movies. Anymore, I will try to take notes and write new words from movies.

At the end, I confidently can say that now I can understand a little of the American actions.