labeling in high school
Were you labeled in high school? How did it shape your interaction with your classmates for better or worse? If you could change how you were labeled, would you? Conversely, were you a person who labeled? To what end? Would you change how you behaved, now that you are a little older and away from high school? Have you ever studied abroad? What were your biggest cultural surprises? How hard did you have to work to assimilate? If you chose not to assimilate, why and at what benefit or cost? Do you have relatives living overseas or foreign-born relatives living here? What is the nature of your relationship with them? Are their language differences that interfere with your relationship? What have you learned from them that is valuable in your own sense of identity? Are you at all troubled by that fact that the United States will soon become a majority-minority country? If you are, why? If you aren’t, why not? What does your answer say about your commitment to diversity and effective intercultural communication? What’s the problem with chauvinism? [unique_solution]Shouldn’t we all be proud or our national culture and pour individual bounded or co-cultures? Can any good come from chauvinism? Is you say yes, explain your response. Same thing if you say “no.” The Martin Niemoller quote in the Ethical Communication box is very famous, buy maybe it’s outlived its usefulness. After all, nothing like the Nazi roundup of those who were different could ever happen again. Or could it? What is Niemoller’s real message, and how does it apply to how we live our lives today?