Archive for the ‘ Critical Incidents ’ Category
Ron Tinsley (2007) I recently moved back to Philadelphia from Delaware and I am glad to be back. I moved to an area called Frankford in the lower Northeast of Philadelphia. The Northeast will always be remembered as the area of Philly that tried to secede 20 years ago. Back then, it was a very [ READ MORE ]
Chad Witt (2008) The year 1999 was an especially significant year in my life. The second millennium of the Common Era was quickly drawing to a close amid great fear of a global computer meltdown and the Armageddon that would ensue, but more importantly, I was graduating from college. I had learned everything there was [ READ MORE ]
Ron Tinsley (2008) Lately, I have been pondering this idea of how cultures operate within other cultures. How does a culture with a small population function within a culture with a larger population. Is one culture hostile to the other? Conciliatory? How does the smaller culture maintain its distinctiveness? How did Irish culture survive under [ READ MORE ]
Celmali Jaime On Being Black in Africa And there I was, stepping off a plane and on my way to Morocco. Who would have ever thought that I and seven other young Americans would be traveling across the world, for the experience of a lifetime? Surely I did not think I would find myself in [ READ MORE ]
To a Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, every destination is a new course in cultural knowledge. Every encounter is an assessment of skills. A new relationship is an opportunity to learn from others. While the sum of our experiences shapes our present, it is the significant encounter, that can change our perspective[ READ MORE ]
Julia Mallory “If you teach a child to ask questions, they will become an adult who will find solutions” Certainly, when dealing with culture there are no absolutes; however there are often enough of observable situations to arrive at an uniform understanding about a particular idea. “If you teach a child to ask questions, they [ READ MORE ]