Study hand out on "What is culture"?
Layers of culture:
1. Artefacts of culture -> thing you notice immediately when you enter a new country eg large
windows and open curtains, tall people and hoe people dress.
2. Norms and values -> written and unwritten standards of correct, desired behavior, it takes
some time to notice them and eventually learn them. Eg stand up for an elderly person in the
bus, arrive in class on time.
3. Basic assumptions -> (norms & values) we learn very young and we are unaware of their
influence.
Intercultural communication is about bringing basic assumptions of our own culture to our
awareness and to recognize the basic assumptions of other cultures. -> in order to communicate
creatively and more effectively with people from other cultures -> achieve cultural synergy.
Culture = the collective programming/learning of the mind, which distinguishes the members of one
group or category of people from another.
Lecture 1: General introduction to Latin America
Countries & Capitals:
1 Mexico Ciudad de Mexico
2 Guatemala Ciudad de Guatemala
3 Honduras Tegucigalpa
4 El Salvador San Salvador
5 Nicaragua Managua
6 Costa Rica San Jose
7 Cuba La Havana
8 Rapublica Dominicana Santo Domingo
9 Puerto Rico San Juan
10 Panama Panama City
11 Colombia Bogota
12 Venezuela Caracas
13 Ecuador Quito
14 Peru Lima
15 Bolivia La Paz
16 Chile Santiago
17 Argentina Buenos Aires
18 Paraguay Asuncion
19 Uruguay Monte Video
20 Belize Belmopan
21 Jamaica Kingston
22 Guyana Georgetown
23 Haiti Port au Prins
24 Guyana Francesa Cayenne
25 Brazil Brasilia
26 Surinam Paramaribo
27 Los estados unidos Washington DC
Layers of culture:
1. Artefacts of culture -> thing you notice immediately when you enter a new country eg large
windows and open curtains, tall people and hoe people dress.
2. Norms and values -> written and unwritten standards of correct, desired behavior, it takes
some time to notice them and eventually learn them. Eg stand up for an elderly person in the
bus, arrive in class on time.
3. Basic assumptions -> (norms & values) we learn very young and we are unaware of their
influence.
Intercultural communication is about bringing basic assumptions of our own culture to our
awareness and to recognize the basic assumptions of other cultures. -> in order to communicate
creatively and more effectively with people from other cultures -> achieve cultural synergy.
Culture = the collective programming/learning of the mind, which distinguishes the members of one
group or category of people from another.
Lecture 1: General introduction to Latin America
Countries & Capitals:
1 Mexico Ciudad de Mexico
2 Guatemala Ciudad de Guatemala
3 Honduras Tegucigalpa
4 El Salvador San Salvador
5 Nicaragua Managua
6 Costa Rica San Jose
7 Cuba La Havana
8 Rapublica Dominicana Santo Domingo
9 Puerto Rico San Juan
10 Panama Panama City
11 Colombia Bogota
12 Venezuela Caracas
13 Ecuador Quito
14 Peru Lima
15 Bolivia La Paz
16 Chile Santiago
17 Argentina Buenos Aires
18 Paraguay Asuncion
19 Uruguay Monte Video
20 Belize Belmopan
21 Jamaica Kingston
22 Guyana Georgetown
23 Haiti Port au Prins
24 Guyana Francesa Cayenne
25 Brazil Brasilia
26 Surinam Paramaribo
27 Los estados unidos Washington DC
