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I had to give my opinion on the hardest part of dealing with cultural differences in a class and explain why we said what we did; fine :). I said the hardest issue is knowing where to draw the line between "cultural differences" vs. unacceptable behavior.

Examples: I support religious freedom! But does that mean I have to accept that in Saudi Arabia women can't even drive because "that is the religious rule in that culture"? No. Some laws are unacceptable. And I'm with Bill Mahr and Sam Harris, too :).. people in free societies should speak up against human rights abuses in Muslim countries that are committed in the name of Islam; that doesn't make us anti- Muslim.

I am getting certified to teach Spanish; I learned Spanish by teaching abroad. But jobs are unprofessional, so I gave up that career.

To get a job in Latin America you need to: graduate from college

sink 3 grand into a teaching certificate for ESL

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or maybe ... I suspect that the reason you did not do well on that assignment had more to do with the fact that your examples were not classroom based examples, which is what the question was asking -- what is the hardest thing to deal with around cultural differences in a CLASSROOM. Neither of your "examples" have anything to do with cultural differe...See More
Jan 3, 2015
Nope.. The assignment wasn't "in the classroom"; it was in general. 90&37; of people said "Accepting that my culture isn't the only valid one". On 12/25/14, me :) wrote: > I had to give my opinion on the hardest part of dealing > with cultural differences in a class and explain why we > said what we did; fine :). I said th...See More
Jan 4, 2015
Education classes.. We don't learn how to actually plan..we spend whole weekend writing a plan for one day in our class in a way that pleases x teacher; y teacher will demand a totally different plan. It doesn't matter if the plan would actually be usable..we just have to fill in 8 pages of boxes describing everything from what technology we'd use to why this lesson &...See More
Jan 4, 2015


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