Culture – the way of life of a group of people passed down from one generation to the next through learning
Enculturation – learning our native culture(s) in childhood
Acculturation – adapting to another culture
Culture shock – the stress associated with acculturation

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Intercultural Management Institute annual conference

I'm attending the IMI 9th Annual Conference at American this week and am actually blogging about the conference - check out my musings and those of the other super cool scholarship recipients at http://imiannualconferenceblog.blogspot.com/.

For those of you who are into this sort of stuff (you must be if you're reading this!), IMI is a great networking and professional development tool, I definitely recommend that you consider joining.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Saturday, March 8, 2008

I love the Cultural Orientation Research Center

This website may just be my new favorite thing ever: www.cal.org/co


In particular, I highly recommend the following resources for those of us working with Iraqis:

http://www.cal.org/co/iraqi/iraqitxt.html (written in 1995, but still good)

http://www.cal.org/co/muslims/muslim_refugees_final.pdf