Introducing Taiwan (I) 11/21 Traditional Festivals.

Introducing Taiwan (I)

11/21

Traditional Festivals

2006 PAX/ Angela Shin-yih Chen

Outline

• Updated Syllabus

• Culture Iceberg

• Traditional Festivals


About AngelaGROWING UP• Kaohsiung City, Taipei county, USA, Taipei, Taichung

EDUCATION• MS & Ph.D. the Pennsylvania State University, USA, 1995-2003• Major in Training and Development/Human Resource Development

JOB• 02/2005 –Present Assistant Professor• Dept. of Business Administration, National Chung Hsing University

COURSES:• Human Resource Management• Training & Development• Organizational Theory and Management• Research Method


Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Communi

cation Arts,Chao-yang University

of Technology

Hello, My mom calls me Amber, but I change it to

Annie. I am 5 years old.


Updated Syllabus

• More field trips

• Require more self-discipline

• Field trip reports?– 921 earthquake museum– Lu-Kang

• 1-3 page, typed on A4 paper


Student Card 用印的給大家填• Last Name:• First Name:• Nickname/English name:• Country/city:• Birthday• Region• Education: school/department/year• Dept in NCHU:• Hobby:• Special diet • E-mail: • Mobile:• Local phone:• Why do you come to NCHU/Taiwan? What’s your expectation?


Culture

What is Culture?

• Please share your opinions with us.


Stories, Rituals, Behaviors, Costume, Symbols, Social Etiquette

Values/BeliefsPatterns of ThinkingPatterns of Communication

Cross-cultural problem

Culture Iceberg


Culture Iceberg

• The upper part is relatively easy to observe(10%).

• It is the hidden part of culture that causes us the most problems when we try to work with someone from another culture (90% lies below the surface).

• Values and beliefs are the core of our decision-making process. We act based upon our values. Different cultures have different value priorities.


Who Do You Save?


• You are on a ship with your spouse, your mother and your child.

• The ship begins to sink. • You are the only one who can swim. • You can save only one of the three.• Who do you save? • You have only 5 seconds to

response.

Consider the following situation…


Activity 1

Please write your answer on the paper

1. Who do you save?

2. Why? In one sentence.

3. How old are you now?


Who Do You Save?

For the western

• Save the child (60%)

• Reason: My child is the future. My child hasn’t lived life yet. My mother is old and has led her life.

• Few percentage: spouse

• Almost no one choose mother.


Who Do You Save?

• For the Asians:– Tradition value (age above 40)

• save the mother

– Reason: • My mother is the one who took care of me. I owe

her everything.• I can get another spouse or child, I can’t get

another mother.

– Younger generation:– Response more like the western.


Who Do You Save?

• This is a terrible dilemma.

• Almost everyone, regardless of cultural differences, would like to save all three.

• The critical issue is how do you choose, if you can only choose one. This is where cultural differences come in.

• Core values can change over time.


Activity 2

• 放 snow 照片


Who Should Go Shovelling?

• Choice One Answera. The wife

b. The husband

c. Wife and husband do it together

d. Hire someone.


Who Should Go Shovelling?

• 4 couples from1. China2. S. Korea3. America4. Taiwan

• Match to the left

a. The wife

b. The husband

c. Wife and husband do it together

d. Hire someone.


Culture Generalization

• It is obvious that everyone from the same culture doesn’t think or act in the same way.

• This is because culture is just one of the many influences that make up any individual.



Each of us is influenced by at least 3 major factors:

1. biological influences ： genetic factors

2. individual factors ： personality traits or life experience

3. group membership ： vary

Person=F(biological influences, individual factors, group membership)



• Angela, received her Ph.D. from US, is married over 10 years, has a 5-year-old daughter, teaches at an university in Taiwan.

• Angela might belongs to following groups:

• Female, married, parent, western-university-educated, Taiwanese, bilingual, professor, good job reputation.



• Above example illustrates why people from the same culture can be very different, yet at the same time show a number of important similarities.

• Cultural generalizations are starting points for understanding others.

• We can generalize about culture, and have to when working with people from other countries.

• Yet, we need to be very careful not to assume that everyone will fit the generalization.


Activity 3

• Australia (1)+• Canada (2)+• Czechoslovakia (3)

• Germany (3)+• Turkey (2)+• Poland (2)+

• Vietnam (8)+

• Thailand (8)+

• Russia (5)+

• S. Korea (3)+

• Japan (4)

41 students from 11 countries!


Considering Following Questions:

• What is the wedding color and funeral color in your country? (or what color shouldn't appear in a wedding or a funeral?)

• After you come to Taiwan/Taichung, did you experience any culture shock?

• You have come to Taiwan for a while, what kind of cultural advise on Social Etiquette (dos & don’ts) you will give to the next PAX student from your country?

• Please write down the discussion and share it with your team. Finally, share it with us!


Traditional Festivals

Activity Preview


Chinese Knotting


Chinese Knotting

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Step 4 Finish


Pottery DIY


11/23 (Thursday)

• Speech: From Taiwan to Taiwan

• Robert Fawcett ,1-3pm

• Language center room 502


Education

• Australia 1 (1)• Canada 1 (2)• Czechoslovakia 1 (3) • Germany 1 (3)• Japan 2 (4)• Poland 1 (2)

• Russia 2 (5)

• S. Korea 1 (3)

• Thailand 3 (8)

• Turkey 1 (2)

• Vietnam 2 (8)

41 students from 16 Universities !


Education

• Introduce your school/department

• e.g.

• faculty numbers/student numbers

• Web site of your school

• Photo, department name

• What’s the differences between NCHU & your school/department?

Introducing Taiwan (I) 11/21 Traditional Festivals.

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