Jennifer Xu March 14, 2013
Ms. Heyligar Period 10
Cross-Cultural Psychology Five Tricks Interactions | Five Tricks Interactions “new” | Culture: * No talking * No miming * No lip reading * No sign language * Yes gestures * Highest = 7 * Lowest = Ace * No Trumps | Culture: * No talking * No miming * No lip reading * No sign language * Yes gestures * Highest = Ace * Lowest = 7 * Trumps = Spades | Values: * Honesty * No communication * Must use only gestures * No cheating * Respect * No talking * Play game well mannered * Responsibility * Follow the rules of the game * Win the game fairly | Values: * Honesty * No communication * Must use only gestures * No cheating * Respect * No talking * Play game well mannered * Responsibility * Follow the rules of the game * Win the game fairly | Beliefs: * Communication should not be allowed under any circumstances. * Everyone in the group lipread because we were all getting confused.-Yves did most of the liptalking because he was confused with who is the winner when there was a tie between him and Jennifer. | Beliefs: * Communication should be allowed if there is a misunderstanding. -Jennifer spoke during the game extremely confused why Jasmine took the cards. * Game was not played well mannered because people were very angry that people were taking cards when they were not supposed to. | Attitudes: * Played along patiently * Nice * Fair * Gave lip-readings for members that were confused nicely | Attitudes: * Mean – snatched cards away * Looked at members like they were stupid * Aggressive |
Evaluation: Each group had different rules to the game. When I was rotated to another group, I did not realize that rules were different until a girl in the end took the pile of cards when clearly someone else should have taken it. It was hard for us to communicate because I was at first protesting but thought maybe I was going a bit crazy. The rules were different, and I did not make an attempt to keep my own rule from my culture. I acquiesced whatever the rule was. The group I was in talked most of the time, so they did not value the no talking rule. I realized that with our own culture group mixing into others showed me that everyone is different. We all have different ways of how to act when rules are different and it gets quite confusing. It is important to understand and interpret other people as we mix and try to help them adapt or acquiesce to their rules. Each culture is different and we all have different standards of what is acceptable or not. Some simply stick to their own rules and some acquiesce and adapt. This is how cultural diversity came about and a rule of the old does not matter anymore. This has expanded globally and extensively in its contextual references.

Real world behavior | My culture behavior | * Allowed to date whenever we feel is right which is earliest around elementary. * Shower any time of the day, when you are free. * For tradition, respect, quality time eat at the dinner table. * Try your best and achieve whatever you can. * It’s okay to have sex before marriage. * Some people have kids before they get married. * No pressure into good college, do what you feel like. * Family dinner table rules are