{"id":157,"date":"2008-12-26T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-12-17T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T08:05:40","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-73-culture-as-the-software-of-the-mind-teaching-intercultural-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 73 +++ Culture as the Software of the Mind +++ teaching intercultural awareness +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-157-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_073.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_073.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_073.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-picture-software.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-188 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px;\" title=\"&quot;Culture as the Software of the Mind&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-picture-software.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Culture as the Software of the Mind&quot;\" width=\"200\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our show today we look at <a title=\"Geert Hofstede @wikipedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geert_Hofstede\" target=\"_blank\">Geert Hofstede<\/a>\u2019s statement of \u201c<a title=\"Learn more about the concept\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geert-hofstede.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Culture as the Software of the Mind<\/a>\u201d and will try to explore that metaphor to the extreme. We will be asking ourselves how we get to learn about a piece of new software and whether this experience can really be transferred to learning about a new culture. What, for example, can be done in the classroom to raise the intercultural awareness of students who prepare for their stays abroad?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><strong>absolutely programmed:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a round-table discussion with Berit Wiebe and Karsten Kneese we asked ourselves: \u201cWhere do we get our culture from? Do we get if from our parents like a new version of Photoshop for Christmas? Or do we get it from our peers like we would get new software if we illegally shared a programme with our friends? Or does the cultural learning rather work like the spell check in Word, which learns from us and improves because of the way we use it and add new items to it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely disturbing:<\/strong><br \/>\nAudrey Fernandez-Diehl, who was born in Malaysia, studied in Australia and New Zealand, lived in Switzerland for a while and now teaches intercultural communication at university level in Germany tells us about her <a title=\"What really is culture?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Culture\" target=\"_blank\">concept of culture<\/a>, whether she thinks culture can be taught and about a very disturbing cultural game called Rufa Rufa. As Audrey teaches <a title=\"Become more interculturally aware through a game!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kwintessential.co.uk\/intercultural\/awareness.html\" target=\"_blank\">intercultural awareness<\/a>, she says that her training is both, for foreign students who come to her university but also for her own students who prepare for going abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><strong>absolutely grateful:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn this last day of Christmas I would like to say that Anne and I have enjoyed another year of being in intercultural contact with you, the listeners, through our show. We appreciate your response, please keep it coming. Now, if you have not made any new year\u2019s resolutions yet, maybe you could share your thoughts about the shows a little more with the other listeners on this blog using the &#8220;comment&#8221;-function. This show has given Anne and me many opportunities for having conversations about intercultural topics with experts and ordinary people which otherwise we would probably not have had. So, the two of us would also like to thank you, the listeners, for keeping us going and looking at intercultural issues from different angles on a fortnightly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The next show will be coming to you on 9 January from <a title=\"Anne Fox\" href=\"http:\/\/eduspaces.net\/annef\/weblog\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox<\/a> in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>So long\u2026stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is: <a title=\"Laurent Borgmann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><br \/>\nEditor: Jan Warnecke<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"EN-US;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a title=\"Download the show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_073.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our show today we look at Geert Hofstede\u2019s statement of \u201cCulture as the Software of the Mind\u201d and will try to explore that metaphor to the extreme. We will be asking ourselves how we get to learn about a piece of new software and whether this experience can really be transferred to learning about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;absolutely intercultural 73 +++ Culture as the Software of the Mind +++ teaching intercultural awareness +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,226,7,330,5,13,325,321,349,329,338,339,409,81,6,236,320,11,997,340,73,267],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-anne-fox","tag-communication","tag-cultural-identity","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-european","tag-european-business-administration","tag-european-union","tag-fachhochschule-koblenz","tag-fh-koblenz","tag-geert-hofstede","tag-germany","tag-intercultural","tag-intercultural-awareness","tag-international","tag-language","tag-podcast","tag-remagen","tag-rheinahrcampus","tag-software-of-the-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}