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  • Kayla Hamann '22 RGLP Reflection: Getting Out of My Comfort Zone

    June 11, 2020

    When we think of “cultures,” we often think about race and ethnicity, but these aren’t the only aspects of culture. Last summer, I traveled to Poland with Dartmouth Hillel, the center for Jewish life on campus. While on the trip, the rabbi asked if we would like to attend shabbat services at the oldest synagogue in Warsaw but gave one caveat—it was an orthodox synagogue. The rabbi didn’t know if we were comfortable with this as it meant more conservative customs and made it clear we had the option to attend services elsewhere if we wished to.

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  • Kathryn Putz '22 RGLP Reflection: Leaning Into Discomfort

    June 11, 2020

    I entered the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program seeking a deeper cultural understanding, and a wider array of strategies to interact with people with different backgrounds and perspectives. During my junior year of high school, I hosted a high school student from Shanghai; I shared my daily routine and my physical and personal space with Yolanda. She helped me with my Mandarin and taught my grandma to use chopsticks; I showed her the Portland hipster scene and the beauty of wide-open green space. It was not all, however, a happy cultural sharefest.

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  • Julia Gergely '21 RGLP Reflection: Demanding Dialogue in a Globalized World

    June 11, 2020

    What are the most important tools in building platform for dialogue across difference? The need to build a platform for dialogue and understanding is paramount, and becomes increasingly necessary every day. This need exists at every level and in every sector of society—education, fashion, economy, literature, media, government. 

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  • Dominic Repucci '21 RGLP Reflection: To Help the World, You Must First Understand Yourself

    June 11, 2020

    Early on in the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program, our small cohort of students learned the difference between ethnocentrism and ethno-relativism.  Whereas someone who is ethnocentric has a narrow-minded view of the world and considers their own culture to be that of all humans, someone who embodies the ethno-relativist mindset thinks in a different way.  Rather than being blind to cultures of the world, an ethno-relativist is aware of their own culture and how it impacts their viewpoints, while also exhibiting the same consciousness for other cultures.  For a person l

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