[OSList] Articles on dialogue in different cultures

[Birgitt Williams]

One consideration...it is important to distinguish whether you wish to focus
on 
1.what is different among different cultures
OR
2.what is universal and the same among the entire human race

I personally spent years attempting to understand what was different and
spent three years of training as a cultural interpreter. I finally figured
out that unless I was deeply 'in' a culture, I could not really understand.
I find this even in my own life. I was born in Germany, yet because I moved
to Canada when I was two, I don't totally understand the German culture or
forms of dialogue. Because I was an immigrant into Canada, I also never came
to fully understand the Canadian culture of ways of dialogue. And then I
moved to the southeastern USA some years ago and still am finding my way
after 12 years to understand this culture and the nuances of dialogue. I
have spent some considerable time in India and in Africa...and the same
findings.

So, after all of my investigations to the cultural differences, when I was
putting together our workshop modules, I focused on what is universal, what
is the same. We are all members of the human race and what is the same is in
us all. 

Blessings,
Birgitt Williams
www.dalarinternational.com 

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Subject: Re: [OSList] Articles on dialogue in different cultures

I intend to have them do that but it is part of an academic course. So 
it is required to be at least a little bit academic. Thanks for the 
suggestion though. :)

Bui

On 17/01/2012 10:40 PM, doug wrote:
> Bui--
>
> Permit me to borrow the hat from the man and ask: Why have them read
> about it and listen to someone talking about it? Instead you could have
> them do dialogue and then report out what it was like and what they
> learned....
>
> Or not....
>
> <Handing hat back to the man>
>
> 			:- Doug.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:23 -0330, Bui Petersen wrote:
>> Hi fellow OSers,
>>
>> I have been ask to present a talk about on dialogue as part of
>> university course on Cross-cultural communication. I am thinking that it
>> may be interesting to talk about dialogue and how some of the approaches
>> we use are influenced by traditions from different cultures (e.g.
>> circles, OS marketplace, etc.). The intent to assign reading for the
>> students prior to the class, but it is proving to be a bit more
>> difficult than expected to find articles on this topic. There are lots
>> of sources on how people from the "west" have gone to other countries to
>> do dialogue, but I have found very little describing traditional
>> dialogue, neither theory or practice. (one likely problem is that what I
>> am referring to as "dialogue" may well be called something else in the
>> literature).
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Theoretical sources are OK too.
>>
>> Always grateful for the generous help from this list. Thanks!
>>
>> Bui Petersen
>>
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