Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Management, clip 4 of 13

Abstract

Brief excerpt from interview: When we talk about culture, people will remember taking shoes off, not taking shoes off, and their own sort of experience making the mistake . . . I do stress the point about how culture is to be learned behaviorally . . . coming from Nepal I was not comfortable giving a lei to a woman and kissing her, and so I put myself into those situations, and now I feel comfortable. It's taken me 20 years, but the point is, I know of colleagues that still don't do it . . . but the other people . . . who come from the mainland, then they are able to bring their stories and their interactions in Hawaiʻi, about how they acted there and here, so place does come in when people bring their experience.