Culture Meme
This came from my cross-cultural psych class... it looks like it would make a good meme.
Finish the following sentences:
1. If my cousin needed money, I would
2. My sister's child
3. Money
4. In the future, I really hope
5. When my father (or uncle or other adult male in the family) tells me to do something, I
6. School
7. White people
8. Black people
9. Asian North Americans
10. The most important part of my life is
11. Work is
12. Religion is
13. Respect is
14. My mother is
15. If you were my friend you would
These questions should illustrate cultural differences in people. Then there are people with weird senses of humor like myself and most people on my friend list... their answers will likely be spur-of-the-moment. Yeah.
On the topic of cross-cultural psychology, there was a semester project presentation in class today about stereotyping of Native Americans. To illustrate it, the three guys asked for some volunteers to wear t-shirts for them. We had our backs turned to the class until we turned around one at a time.
The t-shirts had team names on them. Some of the team names were horrible racial slurs, and the class was asked to determine which of them upset us the most. Here's the list:
Cleveland Indians
Minnesota Moulies*
Sacramento Skinheads
Wisconsin Wetbacks
Chicago Chinks
New York Niggers
Texas Towelheads
Now, one of those is a real team. And it garnered the least outrage from my classmates. Oh, I was the one in the Sacramento Skinheads shirt, and all of them had drawings of hypothetical mascots (except the Indians one). A guy from Mexico standing next to me wore the Wetbacks shirt and the girl in the Niggers shirt took it off as soon as she could. I got to keep my shirt, and the Wetbacks guy kept his, but no one else wanted theirs. It's not something I'd wear, but it's great for highlighting cultural tolerances that shouldn't exist. Oh yeah, if you're offended, please remember that this was
*For those who don't know this term--which is everyone I ask, it's some kind of epithet for blacks. I can't find it on dictionary.com or UrbanDictionary.com; it comes up as a French word in a Google search.
Part III of this massive random update...
There is a new rule in effect at work as of Monday, and completely unofficial but approved by the boss. If you leave your computer logged on, the next person to find it still logged in and you gone will change your background to something interesting. These week it's musclemen. So far I've changed four peoples' backgrounds, informed about eight out of thirty workers, and watched the lead who masterminded it give another coworker a Roseanne Barr background. One coworker who just found out about the change today said she's going to get revenge on me. Good luck finding me not logging off my machine.
Finish the following sentences:
1. If my cousin needed money, I would
2. My sister's child
3. Money
4. In the future, I really hope
5. When my father (or uncle or other adult male in the family) tells me to do something, I
6. School
7. White people
8. Black people
9. Asian North Americans
10. The most important part of my life is
11. Work is
12. Religion is
13. Respect is
14. My mother is
15. If you were my friend you would
These questions should illustrate cultural differences in people. Then there are people with weird senses of humor like myself and most people on my friend list... their answers will likely be spur-of-the-moment. Yeah.
On the topic of cross-cultural psychology, there was a semester project presentation in class today about stereotyping of Native Americans. To illustrate it, the three guys asked for some volunteers to wear t-shirts for them. We had our backs turned to the class until we turned around one at a time.
The t-shirts had team names on them. Some of the team names were horrible racial slurs, and the class was asked to determine which of them upset us the most. Here's the list:
Cleveland Indians
Minnesota Moulies*
Sacramento Skinheads
Wisconsin Wetbacks
Chicago Chinks
New York Niggers
Texas Towelheads
Now, one of those is a real team. And it garnered the least outrage from my classmates. Oh, I was the one in the Sacramento Skinheads shirt, and all of them had drawings of hypothetical mascots (except the Indians one). A guy from Mexico standing next to me wore the Wetbacks shirt and the girl in the Niggers shirt took it off as soon as she could. I got to keep my shirt, and the Wetbacks guy kept his, but no one else wanted theirs. It's not something I'd wear, but it's great for highlighting cultural tolerances that shouldn't exist. Oh yeah, if you're offended, please remember that this was
*For those who don't know this term--which is everyone I ask, it's some kind of epithet for blacks. I can't find it on dictionary.com or UrbanDictionary.com; it comes up as a French word in a Google search.
Part III of this massive random update...
There is a new rule in effect at work as of Monday, and completely unofficial but approved by the boss. If you leave your computer logged on, the next person to find it still logged in and you gone will change your background to something interesting. These week it's musclemen. So far I've changed four peoples' backgrounds, informed about eight out of thirty workers, and watched the lead who masterminded it give another coworker a Roseanne Barr background. One coworker who just found out about the change today said she's going to get revenge on me. Good luck finding me not logging off my machine.