Meeting 10: Day 2 of the Breaking Down National Stereotypes Discussion

Last week the guests presented for the Breaking Down National Stereotypes Discussion. Below is our schedule for Day 2. After our schedule, I will post the summaries of each guest's presentation:

1. Ice Breaking: 4 Corners
2. Mini Discussions with guests:

• Each group will have 10 minutes to talk to a guest. Here is some possible content to discuss.
  

A) Follow-up on the guest’s presentation

• Did you understand all of the guest’s presentation? What parts did you not understand? Are there any words, phrases, or concepts you heard for the first time? Ask the guest questions about his or her speech to clarify what she/he said. You can also confirm your guest’s answers to the below questions:

Are there any responses that you are proud of?
Are there any responses you do no think are true?
What else do you think we should know about your country?

• Until now, you have talked about how people in your country imagine your guest’s country, why don’t you ask your guest what her/his images of Japan were before she/he came to this country. How accurate were the guest’s images?

3.“Discussion on Values” activity (Time Permitting)
4. Closing words: JH

Post Discussion
Please write about what you learned from the discussions that you had with two guests on the MMCE Blog. Please do this by June 30.

Summaries of Last Week's Presentations

Uyghr

Uyghur is regarded as unknown place for many people in the world. Even though people don’t know much of its cultures, we can see some of them because Uyghur is the mother of many things in the world. For example, noodles are origins of pasta, and the Uyghur language is origin of east languages such as Turkish.
Also,Uyghur is really multicultural place. There are 9 countries around Uyghur (China, Pakistan, Mongolia, Turkey etc.) that have influences to its culture. Though there are many faces in Uyghur and some looks like a Chinese, only 10 percent of the Uyghur population can speak Chinese and 100 percent of the people are Muslim.
As to our group’s survey, almost all are right but there are some wrong stereotypes. Uyghur people are not nomadic nor nomadic.

France

Food:French live on bread. Wine is famous,but
Beaujolais Nouveau isn't treat an
expensive wine. And cheese has nothing
to do with France.

People:There are basically mix people in
France. Black,Arabian...there are
various race. And,there are many
strikes.

National flag:Flag of France was a symbol
of the revolution movement.
It expresses freedom and
equality.

Russia


People know a lot about Russian people. For example, Dostoevsky, Putin, Rasputin, Sharapova, Arshavin, Tchaikovskii and so on.
Many people think that Russia is a cold country, but it depends on season and locations. In northern place, it is very cold and has a lot of snow in winter. On the other hand, Saint Petersburg is about 25 degrees now.
The location of Russia is good because Russia locates between Europe and Asia. Because of the closeness of Europe, Marina can study English and use English, and because of the closeness of Asia, she can learn Asian languages. She chose Japanese as her third language among the Asian languages.


Philippines


【race】
After the presentation→In fact,not so many black men and they don’t call black man
but ‘brown man’ in Southest Asia.

【language】
After the presentation→In fact,they speaks over 180 kinds of languages.And under
the data is survey for language’s percentage.
　※Filipino and English is official language.

Main article
Native Language
Tagalog 22million, Cebuano 20million, Ilokano 　 7.7million, Hiligaynon 7million, Waray-Waray 3.1million, Kapampangan 2.9million, Chavacano 2.5million

【climate】
After the presentation→In fact,North area is not so hot though Southest Asia.

【geography】
After the presentation→In fact Philippine is made of 7107 islands.It’s very surprise truth.

【religion】
After the presentation→In fact,there are 90 percent for Christiantity.This is unbelievable,but we got under the data.

Religion in the Philippines
Religion Percent
Christiantity 90％, Islam 5％, Buddhism 2％, Hinduism 1％, Others　2％

【culture】
After the presentation→In fact the pub is where only they can drink and drug is the
world problem.
Our group was very surprised about religion because 90 percent for Christiantity.
Now,we know that is prejudice and ideology.There were our image from some
Information by the education and the medias.

Pakistan


Food:Pakistani like spicy food like India.

Religion:The religion of Pakistan is Islam.
The turban is related to Islam.

Climate:There are some climate situation in
Pakisatan.

Person:The color of skin is blown not black.

Incident:There are disputes not incident.
Individual person decides to participate to disputes.

Meeting 9: Day 1 of the Breaking Down National Stereotypes Discussion

Day 1 of the Breaking Down National Stereotypes Discussion will be held today. Here is our schedule of events:
1) Introduction to MMCE
2) Mind Map Viewing
3) Ice Breaking: 2 Truths, One Lie
4) Confirm the results in groups
5) Guest Presentations (5 minute presentation + 5 minute question and answer):
1. Jolina F., Phillipines
2. Ablajan I., Uyghr
3. Marina, Russia
4. Janet A., France
5. Sara B., Pakistan

CLGs: I would like each CLG to ask a question to their guest after the presentation. Also, I would like each CLG to summarize their guests presentation and write it as a comment on the blog.

Meeting 8: Preparing for the Breaking Down National Stereotypes Discussion

Making Mind Maps

I. As a group, please make a mind map based on the data you collected. In the center of the mind map should be an image of your country and then you should have an image of each category. Also, somewhere in your mind map I think it would be good if you could include some basic information about the country. See the data here.

Here is a sample mind map of a country from last year.
Country: Mexico
Categories: Food, Geography, Artifact, Sports, Color, Plant/Animal, Image


Country: China
Categories: Culture, Disaster, Event, Food, Person, Personality, Policy, Society

II. Unfortunately, I have not received the completed data from 3 groups. For the next MMCE, I would like you to do the following:

• Please contact your guest THIS WEEK and arrange to give them the categorized and sorted data . Please tell them that you would like them to speak for about 5 minutes about the following:

1. Which responses that people wrote about your region/country are you proud of?
2. Is there anything written that you think is not completely true or wrong? If so, which responses?
3. Is their anything you would like to say about your region/ country that has not been written? If so, what would you like to say?

• Please arrange to meet your guest again BEFORE MMCE on June 17 and escort him/her to the MMCE room (rm.405).
  

III Plan for Day 1 of the Discussion

Below is the tentative plan for Day 1 of our Discussion:
The Discussion
10:30 ~ 10:35: Intro by JH
10:35 ~ 10:45: Mind Map Gallery Viewing
10:45 ~ 10:55 : Ice Breaking
10:55 ~ 12:00 Guest Presentations (5 minutes presentation + 5 minutes question and answer)

Each group, while your guest is speaking, please take notes. As a group, please summarize what your guest said and e-mail it to JH by Monday, June 15. I will post it on the blog so others can read it.

Each group is responsible for asking its guest a question during the question and answer period.

Here is the completed data that I have:
Russia
France
Philippines
Pakistan
Uyghur

Photos of last year's presentations:
USA

China

Meeting 7: Beginning our Preparation for the Breaking Down National Stereotypes Discussion

Agenda for Meeting 7

I Comparing Country Profiles

1. Compare country profiles: When you do not know a word, ask the speaker the meaning and write it down.

• Questions that you can answer as a group:
  
• Which country has the most natural resources?
• Which country has the most serious envirnonmental issues?
• Which country has the most ethnically diverse population?
• Which country has the lowest/highest infant mortality rate and life expectancy?
• Which country has the most languages?
• What other interesting comparisons can you make between the countries

2. Return to your group and do the following

• Make a list of words that you learned during the country comparison. From the list, choose 5 words that you think are essential for your group and you would like to learn.
• Group Philippines: monsoon, coral reef degradation, land, sub-arctic, tundra
• Group Russia: petroleum, copper, deforestation, republic, Moscow
• Group France: Uranium, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), French, air pollution, life expectancy
• Uyghur, China: pollution, republic, deforestation, infant mortality rate, Mandarin
• Pakistan: infant mortality rate, literacy, acid rain, deforestation, industrial waste

• Think about what questions about the information from the country comparisons you would like to ask your guest.

II Preparing the Data

1. JH will explain about the breaking National Stereotypes Discussion
2. Categorize the data you have collected.
3. Contact your guest and give them the data that you have collected by next week.

For next time, please do the following:
1) Think of categories for the responses.
2) Write the categories into the file that JH will send the computer supervisor (係）
3) Send JH the new file by Tuesday, June 9.