At the beginning of the class, we played a game, using hoops. We were
divided into two groups and lifted up the hoop only with our pointers. All we
have to do was to get it down, but it was very difficult for us to do. If each
of us did not talk nor anyone instructed others, the hoop went everywhere. Also,
some students were impatient about making hoops go down faster than the other
team, which made the game chaotic. The game was, according to the instructor,
associated with our topic today: individualism and collectivism. It was very
interesting to see the response of the students. Some treated this activity as
a “game” while others had fun and seriously like a competition.
At
first, we saw videos about Portugal and Brazil. The most interesting thing that
I thought was that although both Brazil and Macau were colonized by Portugal,
their culture became totally different. Many factors including geography and its
traditional culture affected to their cultural formulation. In my opinion, a
culture in Macau is a mixture of East and West, and the one in Brazil is
passionate, bright, and natural.
After that, we did a game and discussed individualism and
collectivism. Today’s facilitators were KU and Michael. It was very nice to see
my classmates’ facilitating discussion. I think it is true that culture affects
people’s personality, but how they are raised also affects it as well. In addition,
because of the modernization, people, especially the young started to “individualize”
in some collectivism countries.
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