What Is My Cultural Immersion

The life experience during the kid’s time is one of most important time in the life. I have learned this by the hard way. When people looking for how should their kids to learn, I think people should pay more attention to what are their kids learning. Times are changing, the old thought of teaching might not fit in today anymore. I am always hoping one day today’s student could teach kids， because today’s student knows more about what kids like, what should kids know at this time of the day. SEU’s CCU class’s Cultural Engagement Assignment have given me a chance to see my childhood dream in life. I have decided to go one of the activity on Saturday. I have gone three times, first time I want is because I have to; the second time I want is because I like it and I want to do something I can to help the kids, also I want to know about the kids grow up in the family that not so good. Before I want the activity, my understanding of “Cultural Engagement,” is the connection between the people and the cultural, but after I want the activity, my understanding of “Cultural Engagement” has changed, it became what kind of culture for the kids have been growing up have affected to their dream and behavior. I will never forget a point that so many pastors have mentioned - Christians should never need to tell others that they are Christian but people should able to tell that we are Christian. As being Christian, we need to show the love to others and share the God’s words and

Among my international experiences, I especially value the two-month study abroad in Spain. I chose to go there because of my interest in Spanish language and culture that was originally developed through a four-week Spanish beginner workshop during the summer break prior to my study abroad trip. In Spain, I lived mainly in Salamanca, a small old city in northwestern Spain, which was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Thanks to my parents, who had the confidence and trust to let me go

I have chosen to do my cultural immersion project on adults with disabilities. I was able to visit with two different women with different types of disabilities Darlene and Rhonda. Darlene is around 60 years old with a developmental delay that had her mental age around 6 years old. Rhonda is around 50 years old with psycho-affective disorder with features of Schizophrenia, Manic Depression, and Bipolar disorder. One I thing I found interesting was how they were able live in the same household with very different personalities. Darlene is very much like a typical 6 year old talkative, hyperactive, and always on the go while Rhonda is more reserved, does not like to do any activities, and enjoys being a couch potato (her words). I assume that they would bicker like anyone would living in a bigger family in tighter corners ,

What are some key things you have learned about this culture through reading the scholarly literature?

Traveling to Cancun, Mexico with my family was one of the best experiences of my life. Our resort included swim up bars, a multiple bedroom suite, and six pools across a huge beach side complex. While in Cancun, my mom and I learned the culture by bargaining through shops in the market. We spent nearly five or six hours in one day trying to bargain for deals and sort our way through the shops. I remember one time she got a wind chime priced at twenty-five dollars, down to ten. Experiencing a memory like this taught us both that we can find happiness by experiencing new, unique cultures around the world.

I have always wanted to travel during college to study, volunteer, or both, and the study abroad programs and scholarships pertaining to the Honors LLC will allow me to achieve these dreams. I believe traveling to new places is an unparalleled method of learning, as traveling exposes you to ideas, customs, and mannerisms that no textbook can ever teach. In today’s global society, being aware of other cultures is crucial from a personal, business, and societal standpoint.

the purpose of this paper is to describe the author’s second encounter with cultural immersion within the community of older homeless individuals. This reflection paper outlines what occurred, the experience, challenges faced, and emotions and thoughts of what transpired. As this project coming to an end, the student expresses a deep level of understanding of the population presented.

While reflecting on what culture to choose for my cultural immersion project, I thought about the many different areas we have reviewed in this course. There were several groups/areas that would not apply to me simply because of my own family and my gender. I thought about my own cultural background and belief system and which area I was the least culturally knowledgeable. I wanted to learn something new and grow during the immersion process. During the course of this paper, I will be looking at some stereotypes (both negative and positive) about this particular culture, language differences between homosexual populations and heterosexual populations, my observations of the group and my thoughts on the cultural immersion experience. I chose the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning (LGBTQ) community because, to the best of my knowledge, I do not have any family members of friends who identify with any of these categories. I have had coworkers or classmates that identify in this way, so I feel like I have always been tolerant, but I have never been close with anyone who is LGBTQ.

After my first cultural immersion experience interviewing Rabbi Tepper, I resolved to experience my second cultural immersion activity with the Jewish community. Ultimately, I wanted both of my encounters to be with one culture. I desired to achieve a deeper understanding of one culture, rather than gaining superficial understanding of two dissimilar cultures. Furthermore, I wanted my second immersion experience to consist of several activities. Rabbi Tepper was kind enough to invite me to attend Shabbat (Jewish Sabbath) and Torah study. These comprised a large portion of my overall experience. My hope was to include an activity that was more intimate as well, such as social time spent in the home or a shared meal. As luck would have it, I was able to share a meal with the congregation after Shabbat. This meal was a celebratory meal of the conversion of two individuals to Judaism. I was rather nervous leading up to attending the Shabbat service (my first activity), but I was also excited. The nervousness partially stemmed from not knowing what the proper etiquette for attending a Shabbat service and part of it was just a general anxiety about experiencing something new and different.

Describe how land, law and language influence Indigenous identity and culture as discussed during the Indigenous cultural immersion program. Describe how the loss of these features through government policy and vested interests has contributed to the current health and equality gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

For my cultural immersion experience, I choose to attend meditation at a Buddhist temple. Lately, I have been very interested in the Buddhist religion so I thought that this would be a good introduction into it. I am not a very religious person nor did I know much about Buddhism before this experience. I did do some research and was able to find a meditation for beginners session at the Temple of Harmony. This specific temple is located in Joliet, Illinois. I did some research beforehand on what to expect for my immersion experience. I quickly learned from looking over the temple’s website that people of all races, religions, and ages came to practice Buddhism at the temple. This made me a little bit less nervous for my experience since

Being raised in The Bronx is very close to growing up in a barred civilization. Marble Hill is where I was raised and where my mother, a couple months fresh from the Dominican Republic, had met my father. Both chained with the poverty of coming from a country where you quite literally fetch breakfast in the fields, they had never dared to imagine anything outside of the Bronx borough. My father was gone around the time I was in third grade, and my immediate family was reduced to my heroic mother and two sisters. By the time I was about thirteen we left our one bedroom apartment in Marble Hill for a coquettish two bedroom on the other side of the Bronx, and it was then when I had gotten my first taste of escape.

Taking trips out of the United States have allowed me to experience places as well as people that I have never thought existed in the modern world. The technology, education and medicine available here at home in the United States compared to third world countries is quite a wonder itself. I like to credit my trip sophomore year of high school to Tamarindo, Costa Rica to a self-growth that has transformed the way that I take advantage of the great resources and opportunities that I have available. In the summer of my second year at Page High School, I went on a trip with my mother to simply visit Costa Rica and enjoy the vacation but it turned out to be the most inspiring event of my life.

I have always intrigued in knowing more about different cultures, as I realized my culture is not the only one that exist in the world, and there is so many unique things about other countries and cultures that I have never known of. I learned about Miami’s economic changes, Taiwan’s transportation such as buses and subway or Chinese’s educational methods. These make me develop a better sense of the world and a multicultural

The decision that was made to include this day for the Cultural Immersion assignment and not for the Faith Immersion was that the Jewish community is viewed as a nationality/culture and not a religion alone. Therefore, the understanding of this population was that they are considered a people not simple a section of religion. Another interesting factor that lead to this decision was that they are of the Jewish faith, however, they believe that Jesus was the messiah and did come and die and rise again for the sins of man. Consequently, I remembered a co-worker from several years ago that through conversation mentioned that he (Jacob) was a member of a Messianic Jewish congregation called, Beth Messiah Synagogue. Through countless discussions