SS112 Interpersonal Cross Cultural Communication: 15 Week 9

1. SS112 Interpersonal
Cross Cultural
Communication
Week 9

2. Cultural Resumé
• You have already started gathering information about a
particular culture/country for your Cultural Resumé.
• You are gathering as much information as you can from
books, articles, interviews and visits to restaurants and
churches where people from that country gather.
• You are devoting some several peer meetings to
discussions on what you are learning about the
countries/cultures chosen.

3. Cultural Resumé
You want to get as much informat ion as you can on:
A. Customs and Courtesies
• Greetings Gestures Travel
• Visiting Personal appearance Communicating
• Eating Group meetings interpersonally
B. The People
• General attitudes and values
• Religion
• Population
• Holidays, religious and political
• Languages

4. Cultural Resumé
C. Lifestyle
• Family Work
• Dating, courtship, and marriage
• Recreation
• Social and economic levels
• Food
D. The Nation
• History and government
• Transportation and communication systems
• Educational system
• Health, sanitation, and medical facilities
• Land and climate
• Scale map of the country
• Economy
E. Worldview
and Social Institutions

5. Social Institutions
• Type of family unit:
• Basic family structure:
• Marital affiliation
• Educational systems: Formal and Informal
• Religions
• Political system/Type of government
• Briefly summarize its history:

6. Cultural Resumé
• The Cultural Résumé will be due near the end of
the term, giving you sufficient time to apply the
concepts and information that you are learning in
this course.

7. Cultural Resumé
• The Cultural Résumé will be due near the end of
the term, giving you sufficient time to apply the
concepts and information that you are learning in
this course.