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  • Mia Nelson '22 RGLP Reflection- Adaptability: Resisting The Idea That Other Countries Need to Be America, or America Enough

    March 9, 2021

    On our first day in Argentina, our group rode a city bus after our 14+ hour flights to Buenos Aires: we were hot, tired, and somehow it was morning when we should have been fast asleep. Mist, one of my classmates, wiped sweat from her face as many strangers pushed past us or leaned up against us on the journey. Afterwards, many students complained about the heat, the crowded streets, the Spanish that sounded nothing like what we had studied in classrooms. I was the only student willing to speak in Spanish that first week, and my professor was so confused.

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  • Mia Leko '22 RGLP Reflection: Cross-cultural Experiences

    March 9, 2021

    Cross-cultural experiences broaden our view of what ‘normal’ is. By being too closed off into one’s own culture, ethnocentrism takes over. Having cross-cultural experiences, especially at a young age, teaches people about different customs, languages, foods, ideas, religions, etc. The list of understandings that a person gains through having a simple conversation with someone outside their culture is endless. It’s an awesome and easy way to learn about the world without actually traveling the world. This is why programs like study abroad are so important.

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  • Kaia Reznicek '23 RGLP Reflection

    March 9, 2021

    I grew up in a multicultural household of cultures that should supposedly have been drastically different yet with parents who carried these supposed dissimilarities in remarkably similar ways. They were both immigrants and consequently their drive and ambition for a good life for their families constantly shined through. However, I always felt that the rich mesh of culture and experience was always diluted by my setting. I grew up in a very white Boulder, CO where I began to understand my half-Chineseness as one of my defining characteristics.

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  • Julian Kiyabu '23 RGLP Reflection

    March 9, 2021

    One aspect of globalism which makes collaboration difficult is the amount of time it takes to learn to work comfortably and effectively a diverse environment. It takes a lifetime of working with and living amongst people of other cultures to learn how to operate effectively in a global environment: ambiguity tolerance, adaptability, respect, understanding, and more. These are all skills that never really learned, but are cultivated over lifetime with exposure to new cultures. Yet, they are the paramount to our success in a global environment.

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  • John Moreland '22 RGLP Reflection: Cultural Generalizations and Adaptability

    March 9, 2021

    A running theme through the term was remembering to draw on cultural generalizations to help navigate introductions and conversations with people from different backgrounds than our own. Although I was initially confused by the difference between generalizations and stereotypes, I now see how generalizations can be helpful, not harmful like stereotypes. Generalizations give us a starting point and a framework to facilitate introductions and conversations, but the work doesn’t end there. Generalizations, just as the name points to, are general.

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