Bulldogger's Path

06 Difference in Manners                My mother passed away when I was eight. When my father remarried, it was to a lady from England. As I was still a kid at the time, I did not notice how much of a shock our family culture and mannerisms were to her. Culturally, I was raised by two parents from Utah and northern Nevada. They brought their culture and manners with them. I was also brought up in Texas. This added different dimensions to my personal culture and manners. Neither of these cultural mannerism were what my step-mother’s British upbringing gave her. There were definitely some adjustments made on both our parts.     Once again, I will be pulling a lot of information from Professor Ivers of BYUI. The transcript I will be using is found here:  https://content.byui.edu/file/3b9f9a3b-1633-41fd-a1cb-371052401ec8/1/Differences%20in%20Manners.html. He gives out a lot of great examples of the differences in cultu...

06 Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom     There are many different cultural paradigm based on the culture your were raised. These paradigms vary from state to state and from country to country. In the last few of my blogs, I have discussed some of these. Today, I am going to blog about culturally educational paradigms.     As you have probably guessed, I will be taking a lot of my information and quotes from Professor Ivers of BYUI. Here is the link to the transcripts of his lesson:  https://content.byui.edu/file/5ea5aa3a-0806-4dd5-8106-1ba4f85b3656/2/Cross-Cultural%20Students%20in%20the%20Classroom.html.     I was raised in the South West. As was raised and went to school in Texas. In school, we were taught to respect the teachers. As an example, we were taught in Kindergarten to always answer our teachers with "Yes, Ma'am or no, Ma'am." If it was a male teacher, we would use Sir instead of Ma'am. I thought this was how all students in the ...

       Attributional Tendencies Cultures     This is a subject that I do not believe I have heard explained before. The attributional tendencies  theory attempts to explain a persons reasoning behind their blaming themselves or others for successes and failures.      In Professor Ivers class transcripts ( https://content.byui.edu/file/45b9e59e-e91a-44eb-879b-18efd35d7bab/3/Attributional%20Tendencies%20Cultures.html) I learned this is not just an issue found in the USA, it is found in all cultures. I guess you could say it is a human trait.     An example of an attributional tendency could be shown in my response or reaction to my tripping and falling down the stairs. If I blamed myself by claiming to be clumsy, I would be showing an internal attribution. I am the cause, or something attributed to me. If I was to blame the stair, or the craftsman who built it, I would be exhibiting external attribution. It is someone e...

            Personal Space Differences     We each have a amount of space we like to keep around ourselves. This is often referred to as personal space. This is the subject I studied about this week in my TESOL class as we learned more about cultural differences and how they affect teaching English as a foreign language. I am going to refer to two different articles for my information in this blog post. The first is found at this website   https://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/chap9.html. I am unsure of the author. The second a lesson transcript by Professor Ivers of BYUI and is found here: https://content.byui.edu/file/b224d5c7-20ff-4f88-9660-7bfb4d1669fc/2/Personal%20Space%20Differences.html.     Professor Ivers points out that we all have differing amounts of personal space we feel comfortable maintaining. These space requirements are often culturally instilled in our psyche. Ge...

                   Individualism vs. Collectivism     Continuing on my previous post about cultural differences, I want to discuss the differences between individualism and the group mentality.     I really enjoyed this subject. I have previously stated how I served a proselyting mission in Japan for my church. Much of this weeks reading in my TESOL class discussed the group mentality found in Japan. I agree with the majority of what was covered by Professor Ivers of BYUI. Transcript address is:   https://content.byui.edu/file/5312ca2a-4f25-4d01-8386-f505b0c1dad6/3/Individualism%20vs%20Collectivism.html      Professor Ivers related a story of a Japanese High School baseball team who had some players involved in a drunk driving accident. While the damage was minor, in regards to the vehicles involved, the damage to the students, the ball team, the coach, and the reputation to the scho...

             Differences in Emotional Expressivity     I am working on improving my marketability after I retire in a few years. As part of that improvement, I am taking a TESOL class from BYUI.      In the most recent class assignment, I read a lesson given by a professor Ivers at BYUI. This class is about cultural diversity. The link to the to the transcript is:  https://content.byui.edu/file/81c5f26e-4a29-4c68-accb-c2b1539f93a0/2/Differences%20in%20Emotional%20Expressivity.html     I learned some interesting things about culturally controlled emotional expression. Professor Ivers used a line graph as a basis with low and high public emotional expression on either end. The emotional expression of the USA was mostly centered on the graph with Oriental countries on the Low end and Central/South American countries on the High end of public displays of emotional expression.     I have serv...