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Two decades of using simulation games for cross-cultural training

This article by Sandra Fowler "defines cross-cultural training and briefly traces its history. The power of using simulation games for cross-cultural training is described.  The history of the author is intertwined with the use of simulation games for cross-cultural training. Personal history with specific games...is traced, and trainers who have influenced the author's development as a simulation gamer are cited" (Fowler, p. 464).

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Fictional Culture Simulations

A popular method for generating beginning intercultural conversations is to assign fictional cultural characteristics and then to ask participants to interact according to the rules of their assigned culture.  Several variations of this type of exercise have been published under different names.

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