The document provides an overview of culture bumps and global studies. It defines a culture bump as a difference that catches one's attention in how something is said or done. The document outlines the historical context of multicultural education and cross-cultural communication since the 1950s. It also describes the culture bump approach, which focuses on understanding individuals, rather than cultural groups, by examining specific differences. The culture bump method uses 8 steps to help people expand their understanding of their own and other cultures.

1. Culture Bump
&
Global Studies
Prepared for
Ms Lydia Witt
By
Dr. Abbi-Storm
Dr. Carol M. Archer
April 20, 2023
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2. Definition of a Culture Bump
Historical Overview
Culture Bump & Micro-Aggressions/Micro-Culture
Culture Bump & Perceptions/Bias
Modules
Perceptions
Cultural Values
CB Steps
 Overview

3. A Culture Bump is merely a difference…
Something that catches your attention
Something that you would not do or say yourself
• In other words,

4. It is…
Something that somebody does
Something that somebody says
The way something is said
Some thing
p. 9 Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common Ground
• What is a Culture Bump?

5. Recall the perceptions that emerged from the culture bump that Josh, Cheyenne, Katie,
Tuk Bum, Mazen and Mubeen
had with Lucy Mae
Her body can’t endure that. (Neg)
She’s fairly old to be riding something
like this. (Neutral)
What’s she wearing - pajamas? (Neutral)
Age hasn’t slowed her down.
(Positive)
Endearing (Positive)
I’ve never seen something like this
(Neutral, Positive, Negative)
Lonely (Negative)
Back home, old people are never like
that. (Negative)

6. • In the Culture Bump Approach, we learn how our actions show BIAS rather than bias as our personal
identity. It is what I do rather than who I am: its value is not in shaming or blaming us for being
biased, but is rather a new self-awareness.
• In the Culture Bump Approach, we discover our own bias by using the Culture Bump Steps to
understand our own experience rather than others defining our bias for us.
pp. 59-60 Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common Ground
• CULTURE Bump, Perceptions and Bias

7. 1. Pinpoint the bump
2. Describe what the other person(s) did.
3. Describe what you did
4. List your emotions that you felt when the bump happened.
5. Find the universal situation in the culture bump
6. Describe what you would do or would expect others to do in that universal
situation.
7. List the qualities you feel that action demonstrates
8. Ask or think about how those qualities are demonstrated by other people.
The Culture Bump Steps

8. We can listen to the experience
of another participant who noted,
"Simply knowing that there's
actually a term for the thing that
triggers that awkward feeling
when you meet someone from a
different culture has already
influenced my life and
perceptions greatly."
The Steps are the core of theCulture Bump Approach

9. A participant described this clear step by step strategy for dealing with
differences as having a ..."more proactive alternative to either (a) judging
someone who's different from me or (b) ignoring them and acting like it's
OK. It gets me into the very foundations of where culture variations come
from and a way to compare my core values to those of someone else."
Using the 8 steps in response to a Culture Bump

10. Together, let’s work an Afghan culture bump
Go to https://www.culturebump.com/8-steps-online-tool - or - Turn to page 119 in your
resource book and fill in the blanks for yourself as we go through the steps.

11. • We will use the website to
facilitate one another through
the steps.
The Cultural Humility
Rubric provides a check
list for using the steps
to practice cultural
humility.
 Culture Bump Steps and Practicing Cultural Humility

12. 1. Common Language
2. New Cultural Groupings
3. The 8-Steps
4. The Beyond Culture App
5. Cultural Generator
6. Toolkit for Culture &
Communication
CB
Tools
CB

13. CB
Culture Bump Faqs
https://www.culturebump.com/faqs

14.  Walk Through History
Back
To
The 1950’s
pp. 112-117 Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common
Ground

15. • Domestically:
– Brown vs the Board of
Education
– Civil Rights Movement
• Internationally:
– Cold War
– First large groups of
International students in the
USA
– Peace Corps
In the 1950’s, the USA began to face the reality of “differences”

16. • Multicultural Education • Cross Cultural Communication
This led to the development of two similar disciplines

17. • Focused on domestic issues
• Focused on issues of equity
• Focused on identifying characteristics of various
minority groups
• Focused on describing how an organization would look
IF all groups received equitable treatment
Multicultural Education

18. Bilingual Education
and the
Diversity movement
in Business
Multicultural Education led to

19. Cross Cultural Communication
• Focused on international issues
• Focused on developing specific skills for
communicating effectively
• Focused on developing effective
methodologies

20.  Led to
International Students
Peace Corps

21.  Both focus on how to deal with differences by
learning about and understanding other cultures
• Multicultural Education • Intercultural (Cross)
Cultural Programs

22.  All of these represent a Macro-culture approach
to dealing with differences
Macro-Culture Approach means:
Trying to understand someone by looking at the
history, behaviors and beliefs of the group that
that person comes from
pp. 10-11 Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common Ground

23. Cultural Festivals are Examples of the Macro-Cultural Approach
All of these represent a Macro-culture approach to dealing with differences

24.  Culture Bump is Micro-cultural

25. Micro-Cultural means:
…trying to understand someone by looking
at a specific individual difference*
and, by examining that incident in different ways, makes clear
why we sometimes connect and sometimes don’t connect in
cross-cultural relationships.
Culture Bump represents a Micro-culture approach
for dealing with differences

26. In the Culture Bump Approach
…prejudice and ethnocentric ‘blind spots’ are never eliminated but are
identified,
acknowledged
and become a part of the NEW way we do or see things.
We don’t just describe what someone did or didn’t do or say,
we begin to expand our own worldview.
pp. 80; 84 Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common Ground
 Micro Culture Cont’d.

27. In other words:
Culture Bump is like learning a second language:
we increase our ability to speak and understand a new language without
losing our first language.
p.10 Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common Ground
 Micro Culture Cont’d.

28.  Culture Bump Approach
Combines multicultural education and cross cultural
communication - both of which focus on differences,
but takes multicultural issues a “step beyond diversity”
and provides the “next step” in cross cultural
communication. It does this by…

29.  Culture Bump Approach
Shifting the focus from understanding
cultural groups as a means of dealing
with differences to…

30.  Culture Bump Approach
Dealing with the difference itself.
Thus, people are engaged with culture rather than
being a product of culture.

31. • In other words…
By not looking JUST at the culture that people
come from
We begin to look at the people themselves.

32.  2nd Tool
Expanding our Understanding of
our own and others’ cultures

33. • Culture Bump Approach
And it always leads to…

34. • Humans…Being Connected

35. What have you discovered so far?

36. • Every culture bump - every different action that
we encounter – has two aspects. Embedded in
every behavior is both a condition that is common
to all humanity and an assumption of a shared
meaning attached to that action.
• These universal situations and universal qualities
provide an opportunity for us to stop and pay
attention to our own behaviors and intentions.
And in that self-reflection, we come to understand
ourselves and others at a more profound level.
Culture Bump: 8 Steps to Common Ground p. 40-41; 88-89
There are two ways to have conscious, consistent conversations for connection

37. ACTIVITY
 Click on the Universal Generator on culturebump.com/Tools. Then
select one of the “qualities” or “situations” to discuss. Be sure to respond with specific actions
rather than generalities. Notice how these conversations influence the group
dynamics.

38. Activity
Click on the Universal Generator on culturebump.com/Tools. Then select one of the
“qualities” or “situations” to discuss. Be sure to respond with specific actions rather
than generalities. Notice how these conversations influence the group dynamics.

39. 1. Common Language
2. New Cultural Groupings
3. The 8-Steps
4. The Beyond Culture App
5. Cultural Generator
6. Toolkit for Culture &
Communication
CB
Tools
CB

40.  Contrast Models for Understanding Cultures

41.  Is Life a….. Or a……….

42. Table of Cultural Values
Based on a list of cultural values in Intercultural Sourcebook by David S. Hoopes & Paul Ventura,
published by Intercultural Network, Inc. in 1979. pp. 48-51.

43. Which values do the images reflect?

44. Which values do the images reflect?

45. Which values do the images reflect?

46. • Culture Bump App

47. The 27 countries chosen represent the countries of origin of most
international students in the USA and the destination countries of most
American study abroad students. (2015 Open Doors Report from IIE)
USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Egypt,
Cote d’Ivoire, Angola, England, France, Italy, Spain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,
India, Japan, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Korea, Turkey, Russia, Nigeria and
Vietnam.
 How the countries were chosen

48. For the study, purposive sampling was employed in both the selection of the instructors and in
the selection of the classes that were observed. Both instructors and classes were chosen to
represent as broad a spectrum as possible in this limited study to discover if the app could
replicate any of the results that had been found in studies of the Culture Bump Approach in
face to face trainings.
RESULTS
Feeling connected to the Other
Conscious awareness of the Other’s point of view
Self-confidence, not feeling alone
 Sampling

49.  Culture Bump Tools
Culture Bump redefines culture to give people the tools and the
confidence to interact with anyone anywhere.

50. 1. Common Language
2. New Cultural Groupings
3. The 8-Steps
4. The Beyond Culture App
5. Cultural Generator
6. Toolkit for Culture &
Communication
CB
Tools
CB

51.  Research. (One week downloads)(Total Downloads: 4,488)
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52. What are the possible
applications of
Culture Bump and…
• Adjustment
• Confidence
• Cultural deepening
• Other?
 Reflect on our work together today