This is an extra posting (sorry, not for extra credit) where you can ask questions, read other students' thoughts, and see my responses about topics for your cross-cultural presentations. What topics are you thinking about? What are you interested in? Do you want help with how your topic can be related to other customs, cultures, ideas? What about comparing your job with one in another culture? For example, if you are in the nursing program, consider comparing the duties of nurses in Western culture versus the duties of Native American medical practitioners? Have you traveled in another country? What customs did you observe that were very different from what we do in the Midwest? This is your chance to brainstorm with me and with other students. Have fun with it.
Note: This week's official essay assignment is just below this one, so don't forget to enter your comments there for the week.
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home schooling and high school
vegetarians versus meat eaters
Some ideas about home schooling might be looking at different cultures that home school. The British upper classes used nannies and tutors to "home school" their children prior to sending them to boarding schools. You could look at home schooling today in the U.S. and in the 19th century in England. Or, you could look for cultural reasons people home school: religion, ethnicity, language.
You could look for cultural differences that would influence whether a person eats meat or certain kinds of meat. Examples: Hindus don't eat beef, and orthodox Jews don't eat pork. My friend who teaches in Ethiopia (she's an American) became a vegetarian the first time she went to a market in Africa and saw the carcasses hanging and covered in flies. Her upbringing in the midwest had meat neatly packaged, and the different culture of Africa did not. Just a few ways to look at things.
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