Formative Assessment 2
On Your Own
Part 1 – My Culture
This activity explores ethnocentrism and how we perceive other cultures.
Choose a culture other than your own (for example, a different national, religious or organisational culture).
List ideas, behaviours, rituals, or practices of that group that is different to your own.
Which of the ideas, behaviours, rituals, or practices make sense to you? Which do you interpret as strange or silly?
Which ideas, behaviours, rituals, or practices in your own culture would members of the other culture not understand? Which would they label as strange/silly?