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Journal Prompt
1. Describe a time when you worked with someone from a different culture and a conflict
erupted. Was the conflict resolved? If so, how? If not, how do you believe it could have
been resolved?
2. Students often feel uncertainty avoidance. Have you ever felt anxious when you didn’t
completely understand a professor’s assignment?
3. Students often feel high power distance with their professors or supervisors. Discuss a time
that you have felt high power distance with a person of authority and how you managed
your relationship with that person.
4. Try to get to know a student or co-worker who comes from another culture. Pick one of the
culture-specific skills and document your interaction. How did your communication
improve, based on your awareness of these skills?
5. Are single-parent families an overlooked and stereotyped cultural group? These are the
types of topics that Anastacia Kurylo (Ph.D., Rutgers University) blogs about in The
Communicated Stereotype. Dr. Kurylo is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Read:
http://thecommunicatedstereotype.com/single-parent-families-and-stereotypes/
and answer the following questions:
a. If you were part of a single-parent household, what perceptual biases did you
experience? If you were not part of a single-parent household, what perceptual
biases could you imagine someone else experiencing?
b. Do you perceive that single-parent families are an “oppressed group,” as the
blog suggests? If you are part of a single-parent household, did you feel like
an “out-group”? Explain.
c. What societal changes would have to occur in order for single-parent
households to be perceived as “in-groups”?