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Trade Mission, The

This is a simulation about trade negotiations. 

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Synthetic Culture Laboratory, The

This is a "framework for creating discussions in synthetic culture roles" (p. 176). It is not a simulation. 

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Role Playing

In this role-playing activity, groups act out conflicting scenarios (p. 174). 

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Flashes

This activity asks participants to both recall a cross-cultural exchange and to perform synthetic culture analysis (p. 173). 

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Find Favorite Words

In this activity, participants will name words with positive connotations for synthetic cultures and compare them to other choices. 

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Identity Dialogues

This chapter teaches readers about how Hofstede's six dimensions can affect dialogue and to identify some strategies for dialoguing across some of these dimensions. 

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Synthetic Cultures versus Real Cultures

This book section explains synthetic and real cultures and offers examples (p. 126). 

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Workthink

This activity presents seven different workplace situations (p. 120).

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Guess the Synthetic Culture

This activity tests participants' knowledge of synthetic cultures (p. 118).

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Cross-Cultural Encounters

This is an awareness exercise that asks participants to try to understand another person's reactions (p. 116). 

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Who'd be on your spaceship?

"An Ohio school superintendent has apologized for a class exercise that asked middle school students to choose from a list of racially, ethnically and religiously diverse candidates to save or leave behind if Earth were 'doomed for destruction.'

"The assignment presented 12 potential spaceship passengers, including 'a militant African-American medical student,' 'a Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality,' 'an Asian, orphaned 12-year-old boy,' 'a homosexual male professional athlete,' and a '60-year-old Jewish university administrator.' The students were instructed to select eight to take to safety on another planet, ranking them from the most deserving to the least..." (Caron, 2018).

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Attribution Exercises

In this activity, participants will examine personal attributes for cultural or personal preferences (p. 83). 

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Lucky stores

"In 1988, managers at Lucky Stores, a Dublin, California-based grocery-store chain, attended diversity-training workshops, during which they identified common stereotypes for women and minorities. The trainers designed the exercise to raise awareness of potential prejudices so that managers could deal with employees more effectively. The effort backfired..." (Caudron, 1993).

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Awareness of Culture Difference Exercises

This section features ten stories designed to teach the dimensions of culture (p. 46).

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Culture Shock (Hofstede)

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Awareness Exercises: What to Feel/Do

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What Do You See?

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How to Select and Prepare a Simulation

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Hofstede Value Dimensions Online Country Comparison Tool

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Hofstede Round Robin

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Cultural Mentoring Course #6 (On-Site)

This is an in-person, 3-credit course from IES Abroad that seeks to develop students’ intercultural awareness and knowledge as  it applies to management. 

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Cultural Mentoring Course #5 (Returnees)

This on-site course from St. Mary's College is designed for returnees. Students reflect on and integrate their learning from the experience of studying abroad. They also generate data as they learn through qualitative and quantitative psychological research methods.

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Cultural Mentoring Course #4 (E-mentoring)

This one-credit online course from the University of Minnesota is designed for study abroad students to help them understand/process their intercultural experience, skill-set, and knowledge. 

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Cultural Mentoring Course #3 (On-site)

This CIEE on-site course is designed to develop its students' skills, knowledge, and understanding so they can communicate and engage more appropriately and effectively in their host city and in other intercultural contexts.

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Cultural Mentoring Course #2 (Returnees)

This in-person course at Purdue University is for study abroad returnees. Its purpose is to  help students process and understand their study abroad experiences in light of current literature on models of culture, ideas about global citizenship, intercultural communication and development. It is a one-credit course that meets once a week. 

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