Global Cultures

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and implement culture into the classroom. The example given is very well displayed and gives some great ideas that teachers can use in everyday lessons or as ideas for their own lessons.
In my opinion Begler presents a very interesting case about the study of culture. She says that it is hard to understand other cultures when our own is misunderstood. I find this fact to be very true, from my own experiences in life as well as our class discussions. For instance when the case where the Navajo students wouldn’t take the test and I was presented with the question of how I would deal with this situation. This at first confused me but after thinking about the situation, I realized that I couldn’t understand why this would occur from the point of view of my own culture. I don’t know why it is so ingrained in our culture to try to be #1 so how can I understand the Navajo point of view, I can’t. Begler’s point as I see it is that if people as a culture learn to look at others cultures ...

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