2. Cultural diversity

Our everyday understanding of culture is usually based on the idea of uniformity. When 'culture' is mentioned in everyday life, it refers to the unity of a human community, often in relation to an ethnic group or nation. But what about contradictory observations and experiences - for example, when we meet an unpunctual German? Or if we imagine a 70-year-old Catholic pensioner and a 20-year-old student from Germany who is interested in Yoga and Buddhism: Do both (Germans) really have the same values in all areas and questions of life?

What to expect in this learning sequence: You are dealing with the cultural background of a person, which is always diverse - that also applies to your own cultural background. You will broaden the idea that a person belongs to only one culture, namely the national culture of origin. You discover that there are many more possibilities for cultural similarities than just nationality.

You learn:

• to reflect on one's own cultural background using the concepts of multicollectivity and polycollectivity,
• to describe intercultural learning experiences in your own biography,
• to look at cultural similarities,
• to assign your own group affiliations to different levels of culture.

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