Ross CW #2

In this lesson we were given a worksheet with an iceberg on it and we had to identify what parts of culture were surface and subsurface level.

This was very challenging because people in our group wanted to put everything in the middle because things can fall   into both categories. After we did that we had to look at our own cultures and identify some subsurface and surface parts to discuss with the group.

It was very interesting to see how the Americans had a much harder time identifying cultural aspects that were distinct to them. Everyone else was able to clearly identify thing that they wanted to share as distinct parts of their culture. We talked a lot about how people relate to time and all the non American places had a much more relaxed relationship with time. The relationship that everyone had with time varied but it was interesting to see how similar our countries were when it came to relating to time.