Class this week was again, entertaining and fun! The hula hoop game was an interesting way to interact with our classmates and see how we could all work together as a team. I also thought it was relevant that (in general) the people from the individualist cultures treated the game as a competition between the other team, while the students from more traditionally collectivist cultures did not. It is very telling to see that people in individualist cultures are always trying to "win" because they typically are competing against everyone and not working as a team.
The videos really made me want to visit Brazil and especially, Portugal. It looks so beautiful and like a lot of fun! I also noticed the melding of Eastern cultures with Western ones--i.e. Japan/Brazil and China/Portugal.
I enjoyed filling out the questionnaire to find out my collectivism/individualism score. It was also interesting that Katherine pointed out that the students from Macau had scores that didn't differentiate much from their other score, whereas the Illinois students had large disparities between their two scores.
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