Faith Dance Art

Blind Spot

Two months ago I took part in an entrance examination (unfortunately not successful) and did the following project work on "Blind Spot". A blind spot in the industrialized world is the subdivision of people into subgroups. In English, one speaks... Weiterlesen

Complex Communication

Cross-cultural communication can be very tricky. Especially when people from indirect cultures communicate with people from direct cultures, and vice versa. The potential for misunderstandings is huge. This was one of the topics I taught this week. Craig Storti uses... Weiterlesen

A piece of cake

A piece of cake In this cake filled season, let me add some trivia inspired by a personal experience. This story started more than three years ago, to be exact on my birthday (at the end of September). A German... Weiterlesen

Scenery, machinery or people?

Scenery, machinery or people? In anthropology we learned about the "scenery, machinery, people" approach of most Westerners: we often divide people in these three groups and treat them accordingly. - The "scenery people" are for example those that we photograph... Weiterlesen

What did you learn today?

So, what did you learn today? (or the last few days) Here is what I learned last week: I spent the second half of last week in San Diego at a conference of the NAES, National Association of Ethnic Studies.... Weiterlesen

Aid to Africa: What An African Woman Thinks

One of the blogs I read "What An African Woman Thinks" has an interesting summary of several articles about the debate Aid to Africa: On AppAfrica, Jonathan Gosier used a well-known tale to make a point. He suggested that people... Weiterlesen

BlogDay 2008

Through the blog of a Facebook friend (thanks, Eddie) I discovered that it is BlogDay 2008 today. That was the first time I heard about it but it sounds like a good idea and a lot of fun. This is... Weiterlesen