Cross-cultural

Cross-cultural

1. Misperception

   • Definition of cultural Misperception: not paying attention to the things that aren’t important to me/us.
   • What’s our perception of the world: we discriminate our people more than people from other countries
   • Which are our perceptual patterns: stereotype and judge people
   • How our perceptual patterns could become a barrier: because of what we say on the last question we are allowed ourselves to go with the flow with the stereotypes without even getting to know them

2. Misinterpretation

   • Examples of how categorize: By polarizing physical condition, our aparience, social-economic level, skin color, religion, discapacities, sexual orientation and country
   • Stereotypes: our own, those that we make: "if he wears glasses, he is a nerd", "if he wears a suit, he is an office worker", "if she is wearing a short skirt, she has a relaxed moral"
   • Uses of stereotypes
     • Good: A job interview, going out with your parents in law.
     • Bad: running when you see a cholo, when a girl cuts her hair as a man and everybody assumes she is a lesbian.

3. Self awarness

   • Who we are culturally: it´s like we were a 50/50 country because half of the country very very inclusive and the other half is very prejudiced
   • Mexican Values: nacionality, family bonded, party people, happy
   • Characteristics we associate with mexicans: mustaches, tacos, hats, nopales
   • How do we project similarity: on time of crisis it´s when we project ourselves as a country, we project that there is no you or me, it´s just a big "we"

4. Misevaluation

   • What it´s misevaluation: judging something or someone in a wrong way
   • How do we misevaluate: when we make prejudices when we don´t have the whole information about a topic.
   • Risks of misevaluation: getting into a conflict with someone else, having wrong information `cause you don´t get involved correctly with the other culture
   • How do we avoid misevaluation: by informing ourselves about the diversity and traditions of the cultures and ethnic groups among us