CW #6 - Brad Charlassier

For our final Culture Workshop, we presented the boards with our groups as well as walked around and looked at the other ones. Thankfully, my culture was not on the board (we put Ireland, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan) so I was not required to present to every person that walked by. This allowed me to walk around a bit and get to hear about the boards from the other groups. One question that was asked a lot to our group was the difference in classroom culture between our countries.What I found to evident, was that in American classrooms, the setting is much more relaxed than those of other countries. Maybe that's one of the reasons our education system is so poor? Maybe a greater level of respect toward the teacher in general would allow a class to accomplish more? I suppose it is up to the teacher to make sure the class is in order, but Asian cultures view our classroom lifestyle as super relaxed in comparison to their own. Aside from that, in the middle eastern countries (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan), ALL of their schools are separated by gender. Every single student and staff member of that school is of the same gender. While walking around, I got to see that one of the other groups included a "love" section. I hadn't thought of this, but it is obvious that people of different places and different cultures would convey their affection toward another in varying ways.