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  • Johnathan Nicastro '23 RGLP Reflection: What aspects of globalism are most challenging to collaboration and why?

    November 16, 2020

    I believe that the hardest part of globalism is overcoming people’s innate collectivistic impulses. What I mean by this is that most people identify with a particular group of people at the exclusion of those whom they perceive to be outsiders. This collectivistic identification typically revolves around certain immutable qualities such as nationality, race, gender, religion (especially those that one is born into or is introduced to by authority figures at an early age), etc.

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  • John Cho '22 RGLP Reflection:

    November 16, 2020

    “I think that one of the most important things that I have learned at RGLP is that intercultural communication is a give and take that requires both ambiguity and adaptation. Before this program, I genuinely believed that there was one right way to interact with people, both familiar and foreign, and that one right way was my way. I had to simply struggle my way through every intercultural interaction, hoping that by pure chance that we would get along. If someone else was just as strong-headed as I was, then that would mean that problems would arise.

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  • Fiona Sleigh '23 RGLP Reflection: Navigating Intercultural Experiences and Leadership

    November 16, 2020

    Whether as students, leaders, or citizens of the world, we bring to every role or position our unique cultural backgrounds and experiences. The spaces we’ve grown up in and learned in shape how we see ourselves and those around us. We grow to feel comfortable in those spaces, and, as a result, may consciously or subconsciously come to expect that the people we interact with in other settings will share our background and understanding of social dynamics.

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  • David Millman '23 RGLP Reflection: What are the most important tools in building platform for dialogue across difference?

    November 16, 2020

    There couldn’t be a better backdrop for the Rocky Global Leadership Program and this question than the recent presidential election. Regardless of where you land ideologically, over seventy million people voted for each candidate, with significant percentages for each in every state. Throughout the program, I’ve used this ideological divide as a domestic backdrop for ways to build a platform for dialogue across differences.  

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  • Danelia Gossop '23 RGLP Reflection: Third Culture Leadership

    November 16, 2020

    While a leader’s style and values can ultimately shape the culture of the group being led, it also works the other way around in the sense that our culture is a product of our experiences. Culture does not necessarily have to be tied to a particular nation or people. Still, there are many people whose ethnic background plays a vital role in their values and beliefs, myself included. Culture also encompasses our habits, morals, knowledge, or very simply — our way of life.

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