Ethnocentrism Concepts

1. One of the concepts from chapter 6 that occurred in the intercultural activity was the concept of ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is the believe that my culture is superior or better than yours. In this case, there was a whole argument that the culture where people could talk was superior. I was in the culture where we couldn’t talk and when I went to visit the other culture, they treated us like they were better. In addition, at the end of the activity there were some particular individuals that changed cultures, simply because they thought the other culture was much better. Above all, in the activity, the concept of superiority was present.
2. Moreover, another point in the activity was assuming similarities. It basically is assuming that my culture is the same as theirs, when it is not. For example, when I had to visit the other culture I assumed that their rules were the same. When I got there, I stood silent and they looked at me with a puzzle stared, but no one …show more content…
Altogether, I thought that the activity was very creative, giving the explanation at the end. If there would have been more communication, there would have been different results. Everything turned out different to the second and third group after there was a form communication regarding the difference among the cultures, which came to be positive for those that knew the expectation before joining the other culture. The thing that I did not like was the rule that men could not trade with anyone unless they were approached by a female. I basically walked around, stood there, kind of gave a stare to signal a phrase of trading, and waited until a female approached to negotiate. In conclusion, I think the activity was a good sense of cultural communication, where we need to be more open minded about the possibilities in which the other culture might be a total opposite of ours. In this activity, it was the opposite and for the most part it turned out to be okay in adapting after shared