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Learning about a culture via the i-phone? fact or fiction?
Posted by Laurette Bennhold-Samaan on Thursday, July 16th 2009
There are tools out there to learn about cultures and the latest one is called CultureGPS. It is a tool for the iPhone and iPod Touch that enables you to analyze behavior differences in intercultural encounters and to predict to a certain degree, which interactions evolve when people from different nationalities meet and work together. It supposedly helps you analyze, understand and handle cultural differences. Do you think you could learn about a culture from an iphone or do you have to live in the culture with the people? Your thoughts?
About Crossing Cultures: The New You
When you went on your Peace Corps assignment you brought with you much more than just your baggage. You brought along your culture. Remember those aspects of your new place that made you feel uncomfortable - something ordinary that you did that may have angered or annoyed others. It might not have been until much later that you realized what had really happened and were able to make some sense out of it. And then there were those moments that you will never forget, those simple moments of magic - a moment of true understanding, a shared laugh or point of view, communication understood, a connection. We want to hear your stories, the moments of discomfort and then insight, or of magic.
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