What tools can we use to become openminded:
* It's really important that you know yourself and your own culture, if you don't realise some parts of your own culture you can't understand an other culture. When you meet another culture it's important to see your own culture and why you do something in your culture/country, and than see what is different in another culture, and why do they act like that? You have to ask yourself those questions all the time because you want to avoid a culture shock. You have to do this also because we don't realise everthing we do, sometimes you do something without thinking about it, becaus it is so normal for you. (The invisible and elusive you) You have to ask questions to the other person, because you always have prejudice about some culture, and you have to be aware of it. When you are openminded you can let the prejudices go, because of a becoming knowledge of the culture, by asking questions about this culture.
* Learning trough accomodation means changin your knowlegde and replacing it with new knowlegdes=> you have to reorganisate the schemes in your mind.
* With the exercise we did in class, to become the web, we found out that we all speak English, but we don't mean always the same thing with the same word. Classes for example could be, the classroom where you are in whit the group, or you could think of status in the society.
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Describing my culture shock of Denmark in one word: Innovative
Why? Because I think that Denmark is in many kind of parts more evaluated than my country Belgium. Ussually it is in a good way thaty Denmark is more evaluated, but sometimes for me it's difficult to understand and another kind of thinking. because for example when I have to go to the bathroom in Belgium while lesson, we always have to ask it at the teacher. That's just a way of respect in Belgium, and here, you just stand up when you have to go... for me that's really difficult because i need a promission to go :-). The city instead is so much organised and so good and fine to live in, metro every 3 minutes, train every 20 minutes, you are always on time when you take the metro, train,... it's so nice! In Belgium we can only dream about it. The fact that te bikes are so integrated in the city is also a big possitive kind of renewal.
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What kind of questions do we ask in order to reach understanding of a known-unknown situation?
What is it?
Where do you use it for?
Why does he do that?
Who is it?
What is he doing there?
Is it normal/ussual in you country to ...?
questions to all kind of thoughts that come up in your head, every question is a good question, because with questions you can get your mind clear and find another answer instead of only following the prejudice.
