WORKING WITH

CULTURAL DIVERSITYBy Çisil , Esra , Filiz ,

Özge

WHAT IS CULTURE

?

HOW DO YOU DEFINE

“CULTURE”

CULTURE IS

IDENTIFIABLE IN

THE SELF!

EACH OF US IS CULTURE.

EVERYTHING AROUND US CAN SHAPE OUR CULTURE.

MUSIC

BEHAVIOR

AGE

GENDER

OCCUPANCY

LANGUAGE

RELIGIOUS

ETHNICITY

FOOD

ART

INTERACTION

COGNİTIVE

Culture is communication,

communication is culture.

Culture is human-made part

of the environment.

FACTORS THAT CAUSE COMMUNICATION

PROBLEM IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY

WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR

EXPERIENCES!!

BY ;BODY – LANGUAGEEYE CONTACTGESTURESFACIAL EXPRESSION

WE COMMUNICATE MUCH MORE THAN WORDS.

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

What type of body languages do you face

in your life?

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE GENERALIZATIONS

WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN OUR DAILY LIFES.IT IS VERY COMMON .IT CAN SHOW

BELONGINGS.POSITIVE ONE CAN BE

JUST AS DANGEROUS FOR A PERSON TO USE AS NEGATIVE ONE.

STEREOTYPESDo you see

stereotyping as a problem

in your working

environment?

EVEN WHEN THE SAME LANGUAGE IS USED, PEOPLE INTERPRET INFORMATION DIFFERENTLY.THE MESSAGE SENT IS NOT

ALWAYS THE MESSAGE RECEIVED.THE SENDER OF THE MESSAGE

APPEAR TO BE PUSHY, RUDE, AGGRESSIVE, PASSIVE, ETC.FACTORS INVOLVED IN THIS ARE

VOLUME AND RAPIDITY OF SPEECH, TONE OF VOICE, AND EMPHASISON KEY WORDS.

COMMUNICATION STYLES

How about your

experiences?

THE FACT THAT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES ACCOUNTS FOR MANY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT OCCUR WHEN THEY TRY TO INTERACT CROSS-CULTURALLY OR ACROSS GENDERS.CULTURAL, RACIAL, AND GENDER

DIFFERENCES

LACK OF COMMON EXPEREINCE

What are the key

experiences that shape

our culture ?

SOME PEOPLE REACT NEGATIVELY TO ACCENTS. SOME PEOPLE CONSIDER THEM TO BE

LESS INTELLIGENT, LESS COMPETENT, EVEN LESS

TRUSTWORTHY.

ACCENTS

Are you bothered by

accents?

PEOPLE MAKE JUDGMENTS ABOUT OTHERS BASED ON THE KINDS OF EXPRESSIONS THEY USE BECAUSE OF THE REGION OF COUNTRY FROM WHICH THEY COME. THESE SPEAKERS ARE SOMETIMES THOUGHT TO BE UNEDUCATEDLESS INTELLIGENT THAN

PERSONS WHO DO NOT USE REGIONAL JARGON.

REGIONAL JARGONAre you

bothered by regional jargon? Why?

AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN INTERCULTURALINTERRACIAL INTER-GENDER

COMMUNICATION

TRUST

Have you ever

experienced this?

VALUES ARE BELIEFS. OUR VALUES OFTEN REFLECT A LARGER, SOCIAL VALUE SYSTEM. WHEN PEOPLE HOLD DIFFERENT VALUES OR HAVE DIFFERENT BELIEFS, COMMUNICATION MAY BE VERY DIFFICULT.

VALUES AND BELIEFSWhat are

Values and Beliefs that

creates cultural

diversity ?

VALUES AND BELIEFSWhat do you think about

having different values ? Is it cause of

having different cultures?

Needs are universal. But the way we meet them

differs.

What do you gather from Diversity and

Difference ? Do they have the same

meaning ?

DIFFERENCE & DIVERSITY

DIVERSITYTHE STATE OR FACT OF BEING DIVERSE; DIFFERENCEUNLIKENESSVARIETYMULTIFORMITY A POINT OF

DIFFERENCE DISSIMILARITY

DIFFERENCEDIFFERENCE IS AN EXCLUSING TERM .IT IS SETTING APART ONE FROM THE OTHER.

FIND 5 DIFFERENCES IN THE PICTURE

AS A RESULT ,CULTURAL DIVERSITY

AGECOGNITIVE STYLE; CULTURE; DISABILITY (MENTAL, LEARNING, PHYSICAL)ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDEDUCATIONETHNICITYGENDER IDENTITY

ANGUAGE(S) SPOKENMARITAL/PARTNERED STATUS PHYSICAL APPEARANCEPOLITICAL AFFILIATIONRACERELIGIOUS BELIEFSSEXUAL ORIENTATIONGEOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND

WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU ?

What is going on with you ?

BASICALLY, THERE ARE TWO DIMENSIONS OF

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS:

WE MAY START FROM OURSELVES.UNDERSTAND OUR

OWN NEEDS. INSTEAD OF TRYING

TO CHANGE PEOPLE WE MAY UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS FIND OUT HOW DOES

IT EFFECT THEM. THEN WE CAN

REFLECT IT TO OUR SELVES.

WE MAY START FROM OTHERSUNDERSTAND THEIR

NEEDS.FIND OUT HOW DOES

IT EFFECT US. THEN WE CAN

REFLECT IT TO OUR SELVES.

IMPOSING YOUR CULTURE IS NOT A SOLUTION.

WHAT WE GET IS THE AWARENESS OF NEEDS.

NEEDS OF US

NEEDS OF

OTHERS

WHAT SUITS YOU ?

FINDING THE CULTURE THAT FITS US!!“WHAT SUITS YOU?”PLEASE TRY TO GIVE ANSWERS OF THE BELOW QUESTIONS :DO YOU LIKE WORKING IN

TEAMS OR ON YOUR OWN? DO YOU LIKE TO GO OUT

AFTER WORK WITH COLLEAGUES OR GO STRAIGHT HOME? ARE YOU COMFORTABLE IN A

MORE FORMAL OR A MORE CASUAL ENVIRONMENT? THEN, NARROW YOUR JOB SEARCH TO THOSE KINDS OF EMPLOYERS.

AFTER FINDING OUT THE SPECIFIC EMPLOYERS THAT FITS US.WHAT DO PEOPLE HAVE

THEIR DESKS – FAMILY PICTURES OR ONLY WORK STUFF? ARE OFFICE DOORS CLOSED

OR OPEN? THERE ANY DOORS? HOW DOES THE PHYSICAL

CLIMATE FEEL? IS IT RELAXED AND CASUAL OR MORE FORMAL? DO PEOPLE SEEM TO BE

HELPING EACH OTHER AS THEY WORK? ARE THE BATHROOMS

DIRTY?

THANK YOU!!!