[tips] multicultural thoughts
And an article that might worthwhile sharing with our social psychology students when we cover outgroup homogeneity bias: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/ Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
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���Re the article on the Inuit that Beth Benoit cited: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/ I'm sure some of the mores of the Inuit are very strange to Americans or Europeans, but with several of the examples in the article I find it strange that the author should think them strange. And why the cumbersome etiquette around eating, the obsession with utensils like the fork and dull knife known by Inuit as nuvuittuq (without point). I'm sure one could say something similar about the well-known Japanese tea rituals. At the home where I was staying someone rang the doorbell one day and surprised my hostess by dropping off a dead baby seal. He’d bagged it on a hunting trip. I'd be surprised if this wasn't quite a common occurrence in the past in rural England, with a rabbit for a gift, and for all I know it might well be the case now. Why, he wonders, do Qallunaat always plan some ritual or activity when they have visitors over, such as a bridge game? At least in some parts of English society in the past, this would have been a common occurrence, with card games or musical performances arranged for the guests. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org -- [tips] multicultural thoughts Beth Benoit Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:12:52 -0800 And an article that might worthwhile sharing with our social psychology students when we cover outgroup homogeneity bias: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/ Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
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On 21 Dec 2009 at 13:49, Allen Esterson wrote: Re the article on the Inuit that Beth Benoit cited: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/12/21/through_inuit_eyes/ I'm sure some of the mores of the Inuit are very strange to Americans or Europeans, but with several of the examples in the article I find it strange that the author should think them strange. Here's one which does seem to me to be rather strange from our southern point of view: Nunavut is one of the few jurisdictions in Canada to allow private adoptions, thanks in part to the Inuit tradition of customary adoption, in which generations of Inuit mothers have occasionally given their babies to sisters, or other women in their families or communities, who couldn´t have children of their own. There is no stigma attached to adoption among the Inuit, who speak of the practice in Inuktitut not as giving away a child, but of making a gift - both to the child and to the new parents. http://tinyurl.com/ygbnst6 Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
