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05/31/22 - W07 Blog: Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom.

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Every classroom has a cultural background behind it. There are nonwriting rules for every aspect of the students and the teacher in class. They must follow them with no exceptions, it is a social must to be integrated and belong to the community. Nowadays, the classroom has major diversity in classes, and teachers will find Cross-Cultural Students in them.  The teacher should consider every student’s background, knowing them will allow him to treat them better. Understanding the differences will give a powerful tool to make the learning process successful. In the video, Professor Ivers talked about some cultures that consider American rude and not showing respect to their teachers. He explained that some Asian cultures use to respect their teachers. Just like some Latin-American countries where teachers are important to the community helping them to improve kids’ skills. In Mexico is so common and normal that students on National Teacher’s day, bring a cake and give presents to t...
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W06 Blog: Individualism vs. Collectivism.

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There are two ways of dealing with an environment in countries: individualism and collectivism. Collectivism is representative of Eastern cultures, which mostly show this type of behavior in their society. While individualism is predominant in Western cultures. The United States is the best example of a culture oriented towards collectivism. Perhaps its history of being a nation of migrants,  and a greatest representative of capitalism, made it a nation of competitive citizens. Giving rise to individualism.   Reading about the educational level of the United States, versus the Chinese model. It gives us a look at the competitiveness between those nations. Today they are the first and second economic powers. China will be the first in 2030 . It is important to note that education is the basis of your system. The American model has failed in recent years to increase the educational level of its students, higher than in non-developed nations, but lower compared to other devel...
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18/05/2022 - W05 Culture Paradigms

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A sentence can say more than a text, Mexican intellectual Carlos Fuentes said, "We shall know each other or we shall exterminate each other." What does it mean to know the other? There are many barriers that prevent understanding without context or without knowing the actions of a person. These can be cultural, economic, sociological, or ethnic. Which create paradigms, on which conceptualizations of something are based. Paradigm is described on the Merriam-Webster site as, "an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype". Using simple words, I can say paradigm means the pre-established form we have of a concept or situation. Thus we can understand that a paradigm can show us some correct behavior in a different culture or country, while in our country it can be the opposite. "We shall know each other or we shall exterminate each other."  In real life, we ​​face endless paradigms on which our idiosyncrasy is based. We already know that this will be ...
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