Tremendous TED Talk. Anybody who has lived in a foreign culture without much preparation in terms of what to expect (language, norms, etc.), such as oneself, can relate to this. Being a global citizen is exceedingly challenging, culturally speaking!
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
"The lens through which your brain sees the world shapes your reality". we get to know the surroundings through our culture glasses, shaped by our backgrounds. It's important to learn the specialties of diverse cultures, such as social distance and politeness.
As an international student doing placement in Sydney, this video is absolutely amazing. I’ve been in the country for 2 years, literally struggling to understand how to interpret what people is saying, understanding social norms and cues. This video would have been great if I had it in the beginning 🎉😂
Sometimes the end does not justify the means. Discrimination is discrimination regardless of the term used to to justify it. People have a misunderstanding of equality.
Great lecture! Thank you, Julien. I find this idea very interesting. It's something that I've often overlooked when encountering cultural differences. We all see the world through our own cultural perspective, which can lead to misunderstandings. Recently, I have been learning tips to apply cultural anthropology to businesses. I could receive a lot of tips from this great lecture!
I loved the phrase " cultural glasses" because is true that we have an specific perception about other cultures, what we thing or perceive about them, based on our own ideas and comparing them with our culture. I believe that the culture of the countries have been built according to their history and experiences that they had to face and overcom. For that reason, if we had at least a general idea about their history and past, we would understand them better.
Beautifully said, super brilliant, absolutely amazing; please take my words as compliments. American-Mexican woman with Puerto Rican children and Serbian husband.
the diversity in these lenses are perfect for culture building. We grow more from these interactions with our individual lenses on because we begin to question the standards that are set on our personal lenses, make new opinions against or in support of them. Challenging and questioning even ourselves is important to mental growth.
I believe that culture is so often confused with 'racism' and we are behaving not out of dislike for another race, but simply as a result of our cultural programming....making us feel uncomfortable with different behaviours. When not understood much tension arises.
Melody Tomlinson you explained it perfectly. It’s the barrier of miscommunication that causes the initial frustration, and the feeling of helplessness that raises this tension. However, it is the decision following, the decision to continue the effort in breaking down that barrier or deciding stepping out of your comfort zone and making the effort to understand and be understood isn’t worth it. It’s the effort to find the courage to both embrace and abandon ignorance and step into another’s shoes. That was a lot haha and I don’t know if I even found the right words but I tried!
Sadly culture is the spread of all things we learn and teach between ourselves, be it negative or positive. So racism can be a part of a culture if it is common enough to be considered as such. The problem lies when people take their current believes/culture to be absolute so they prevent themselves from evolving, mentally seeing ahead or learn new things for the betterment of their people, or what it is known as ignorance.
that aside. pure racism is real. you don't want to hurt someone, or deny them of opportunity or call them racial slurs because of "cultural miscommunication"
I learned a lot from this video. I often see the world through my “cultural glasses”. Im open to seeking out more diverse settings and relationships for growth purposes.
As a seasoned presenter Management Consultant and global professional in CQ this lecture is one I have huge argument with! What about industry type, generational gaps! Types of communication! This lecturer is obviously a theorist and has never implemented commercial on industrial change in any businesses across the globe!
I had to stop by describing Norway as tiny little country and I found that it is almost the same size of the UK :) but no one usually describe UK as tiny little country, perhaps an island. I think the perception of country size is different when you live in big countries like Canada.
I live in Indonesia, to me every country is just as big as Indoensia, so sometimes i am surprised knowing that a country somewhere else in the world just as big as the city where i live.
So true and interesting what you say! Something similar happened to me yesterday!!! I grew up in North Carolina where nothing is more important than smiling, being friendly, and speaking in this protocol that basically says> If you are well educated, or not, you never ask a question until you have smiled, greeted the person with chit chat and then ask the question. After leaving NC I lived in Miami, and South American, learned Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Now I live in Madrid, Spain. I laughed that one of your talks you said people are friendly in Spain perspective is so interesting, bc `I've never heard anyone say that. I hear constantly that they are rude. Living here I've changed as well. Here's what happened. After living in Spain and finding people here much less chatty and less friendly than the US Southern culture, and Latin America ''save Argentina' I too have become a bit drier. Yesterday I was looking for a street in downtown Madrid. A young man was hauling something that looked heavy on a cart, dolly thing. I figured he must do deliveries, he was not a tourist so he may know the street I was looking for. Thinking his load may be heavy I was trying to be considerate, take less time so not to bother him, and because after living in Spain I'm a bit more direct. I blurted out in Spanish,,,,Do you know where Calle Horteleza is? The boy stopped. Looked straight into my eyes and said very seriously, BUENOS DIAS. I knew right away he was South American and I was acting a bit barbaric for just blurting out a question. I smiled, he did not, and I said in Spanish, oh...it's because you are not from Spain. He said, WHAT????? You are not saying Good morning bc I'm not from Spain??? I said, no no no no....I didn't say good morning bc in Spain no one says that. But, you are totally right. The proper way to communicate is to first say good morning, excuse me, blah blah blah. I was rude. He said yes, you were. (certainly a New Yorker or perhaps someone from Norway would have thought I was too friendly...perspective. I thanked him. I thanked him for reminding me of who I am. And, no he did not know where the street was. I liked the lesson. Another point. In Spain they say HOLA only when you walk into a store. You think that is friendly. I am used to it now, but in the beginning I found it sort of rude, or uneducated, because I too am used to more formal greetings. Good afternoon, may I help you, how are you? etc. Hola to me sounded like, I am so annoyed you just waked in here and that I have to work here. Don't get me wrong. I love living here! However, after being married to a Spaniard for 20 years, I still feel totally offended if I say Would you like some water, and he says no, instead of no thank you. It is considered to me the rudest thing anyone can do. Crazy, huh? Changing my chip....
I think it is an interesting insight. It was what I had sometimes missed when I see differences. We all have our own cultural glasses differed from another culture. However, the important thing is that we should try not to have prejudice against differences. Of course, our perspective can be changed to theirs. Also, I was interesting that behaviors haven't been made by chance. Someone's behaviors are affected by his or her circumstances involving lots of cultural factors. We should not judge other's behaviors through our own cultural glasses. Remember that to understand one's behaviors means to know their cultures more accurately.
What if there is a culture that considers important to judge other cultures, or to have prejudices against them? Could that point of view be respected too?
I live in a multicultural city. I work at global company with many foreign colleagues. I have traveled across the United States, Canada, a few countries in Europe, and in India. This is very relevant for me.
It's impossible to stress the role that culture plays within humanity. 90%, values, beliefs, ideas, is unseen, while 10% is seen-tangible artifacts. We are acculturated situationally/contextually throughout our lives as we are constantly learning from those around us. It allows us to speak in terms of norms for any group, society, or nation, although there are other broad categories such as individualist vs collectivist cultures & ambiguity avoidance & certainty preference vs ambiguity tolerance vs low need for certainty cultures. As a whole, and we are talking about groups, culture is the single most important determinant of behavior for in-group members.
Wonderful, loved the way the cultural diversity is explained. It's all about perception and reality for which, I ask my students to learn to see the things the way they are rather than trying to see the things the way you like them to be seen.
I totally get it since lately I was thinking that even though I am polish, I found myself too extrovert for my nation and more similar to the people from south when it comes to contact with people 😱 So interesting TED!
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
I am Indonesian. We are extremely friendly to foreighners. If you visit our country our people will smile to you and greet you "Hello mister". And we expect you to willingly let your picture be taken of. And young people are very eager to practice English with you.
The influential nature of this material is profound. A book I read with similar insights was a transformative expedition. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
I think diversity is something we have no control of not to mention to enforce it ! ,but I agree with him when he speaks of changing cultural glasses for further better understanding of others from whatever background culture they have. I think ACCEPTING DIVERSITY is a much better term to use than ENFORCING DIVERSITY.
As a peruvian, i really apreciate silent moments with friends. I was used to them in Perú. But here in Spain those moments seem to do not exist. People here get akward if you dont talk or they think youre uncomfortable. Im writing this because this dude said that most of us wouldnt compenhend the scandinavian point of view of a friendship. Well, maybe the scandinavians are a LOT more silent, but we southamericans can get comfortable with being in total silent next to friends.
I believe this to be true in the older generations, but as the world becomes a smaller place, these cultural boundaries become less and less pronounce with the people who are more liberal/open and accept change. This is usually more common with younger people.
I think that's a very simplified way of thinking if you haven't been exposed to different cultures or at least learnt about them. Most of this talk is really based on a conference where intellectual or intelligent people but are uneducated about different cultures and behaviours. I am very au fait with global social cultures but it doesn't mean I like them all eg I hate ppl almost breathing on me when waiting in a line in the supermarket. Thank goodness Covid has put a stop to that
This video could be the beginning of an interesting study related to the sociology of emotions. It could be research about how people use them to label other people's emotions and determine their relationship to a conversation and (maybe) the cultural paradigm in which they grew up. To be honest, I have never thought about how the ideas of equality of opportunity and result correlate. Might be worth reading/seeing more on this topic.
no, its more French... but as he said, he grew up in french canada.. but both france and norway speak at the same part of the mouth so the english accents can sound simular
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
If you're on a computer, near the "save to playlist button", there are 3 dots that you can click on and if you choose "open transcript" you'll have everything in text, complete with timestamps. I think this only works on videos with subtitles though.
Why are people in the comments all like “my teacher MADE me watch this”? I mean maybe it’s yet another cultural difference, but that seems really negative towards the video. Yes, a professor ASSIGNED me this video, but I quite enjoyed it and learned some things from it.
As a child, I lived in Hurdal Norway, and I remember how everyone friendly everyone was, how people stopped and spoke to you and asked how is your grandma and other small talks. This new lack of conversation is a modern-day choice of not wanting to talk, but ponder on your own selfish ideals of the day that last half a minute! You are part of that problem of creating closed up independence.
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
I find myself stuck on the statement that suggests that adapting is the same as conforming, and framing that in a positive light. I am also aware that my own cultural bias is at play here because I am part of culture that does not encourage conformity, and where adaptation means assimilation not conformity. This is all very interesting.
The influence of culture is a very complex system, there are external and internal elements, including not only genetic but also emotional experiences. It is important to learn about your possibilities but also about your blockages, where they come from and what impact they have on future decisions. I notice one thing in my account, although we are just starting out, that knowledge scares people, they prefer to watch "bouncing boobs" than face knowledge, such a case is the episode about childbirth, many women struggle with the topic of pregnancy, sometimes with the decision to have a child and sometimes with the effects after birth. There are many myths surrounding this topic, which we debunk in our discussion. Despite this, it does not arouse any interest, although the topic is important because everyone was born once. Welcome, it's worth turning on the English translation and I'm curious about your opinions.
You know what? We doesn't have that social distance in our country. Although we have lots of people from different cultures and different citites and countries. Juat thanks for the video😊
love the studies of culture, Situation that happened to me: My Spanish is Mexicanized and Americanized, so when I hear a Spanish speaker from Spain, hard for me to understand, so I must repeat what they have said and hear myself say their words, please do not take offense, trying to understand you better, is a compliment.
This is great. CQ is indeed vital. I'm learning more each time I watch this type of videos. IQ, EQ, & CQ are important especially for global leaders. Enhancing all of these will make for better leaders. The illustrations are very helpful as well. Thank you.
I am actually experiencing culture shock, and this Ted Talk is worth watching. ´´It´s not about what you see, it´s about what you perceived,´´ well said.
In NYC natives generally do not speak to strangers. Some of us don't talk to neighbors. I have been told that in rural areas, small towns speak to each other. Rural=homogenous. Urban=heterogeneity.
In little towns we will be very appreciate i went to guatemala husbands land very small town they ride Motorcycle the most of the people and if we walk people say hi to you when you go to a restaurant they we say to you provecho! Means enjoy your meal. Everybody talk and say hola good afternoon i was in my mind oh my gosh when husband will stop saying hi? Lol is very cute that people say hola every time they see you!
He forgot to mention actually there are 5 ways so he missed 2. #4) observe and continue being yourself and #5) be yourself still but show gratitude when you see the behavior you like seeing and ignore the behaviors you don't like seeing. Then eventually they usually conform to adapt into what you like.
Culture has worked so well in the past! I'm going to name all the countries with a lot of diversity! :D Austro-Hungary The Ottoman Empire Serbia The Mongolian Empire Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Portuguese Empire Spanish Empire Korea Israel Palestine Jordan Iran Iraq Sudan China Russia Danish Empire India Sinkiang Romania Bulgaria Germany France Slovakia Northern Cyprus Southern Cyprus Ukraine Bangladesh
The bus stop made me laugh - here in Spain an old granny would see a full bench, elbow her way in anyway, and wriggle around until she has enough room and everyone else is almost falling off! However, don’t agree with the comment about personal space - when we feel uncomfortable, most of us realize that it’s because the other person is too close, we’re just too polite to say it, hence the dance.
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
Culture = social norms....... Sometimes however what is considered normal in a society is actually dysfunctional - especially regarding boundries: who is responsible for what..... or so it seems in some families and/or communities....
However when everyone is adapted to this way of thinking a new culture is created so then one needs to bring in those who are of the old culture otherwise it then becomes unbalanced once again
I agree with him completely, especially the part of personal space between South Americans and Northern Europeans! South Americans actually go as far as touching the other person!
Trying to quantify human qualities is too difficult. Not that we shouldn't try but ... in all of these examples an important factor is how genuine the intent behind the communication is regardless of culture. It makes a huge difference.
See we Indians just say what we feel without hesitation like you did. You can go through the chats and see how open Indians are about their opinions ,and I love that. The reason I am saying this is because I had the exact same opinion about the video and it's nice to know that someone else has the same feeling and perspective.
It seems like the point he was making is that people are uncomfortable with different cultures, and that there is some nebulous benefit to making ourselves uncomfortable, but he never mentioned what that benefit might be. He never mentioned what the cost of it would be either.
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
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"It’s not about what u see its about what u perceive" won my heart
Tremendous TED Talk. Anybody who has lived in a foreign culture without much preparation in terms of what to expect (language, norms, etc.), such as oneself, can relate to this. Being a global citizen is exceedingly challenging, culturally speaking!
My teacher told me to watch this..
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
POV: your teacher made u watch this
My English teacher did 😂
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Yep
Yeo like this if dr mitchel from Mdc sent u
"The lens through which your brain sees the world shapes your reality". we get to know the surroundings through our culture glasses, shaped by our backgrounds. It's important to learn the specialties of diverse cultures, such as social distance and politeness.
you literally gave me the answer instead of watching a 12 minutes long video and think of a complete answer that surely will take time. thank you.
Thank you 😅
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As an international student doing placement in Sydney, this video is absolutely amazing. I’ve been in the country for 2 years, literally struggling to understand how to interpret what people is saying, understanding social norms and cues. This video would have been great if I had it in the beginning 🎉😂
good luck !
Sometimes the end does not justify the means. Discrimination is discrimination regardless of the term used to to justify it. People have a misunderstanding of equality.
I`m glad my teacher made me watch this, for as this video explains the culture differences it helps me to understand even further my own culture
Great :)
My Inernational communication teacher made me watch this and it's the most helpful video I've seen on this topic really))
can anyone of you explain me the concept of contradiction, complain and confrim that he mentioned here?
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My teacher made we watch this but it was pretty interesting ngl.
Great lecture! Thank you, Julien.
I find this idea very interesting. It's something that I've often overlooked when encountering cultural differences. We all see the world through our own cultural perspective, which can lead to misunderstandings.
Recently, I have been learning tips to apply cultural anthropology to businesses.
I could receive a lot of tips from this great lecture!
Norway practicing social distancing before there was a pandemic
LOLOLOLOL!!!!
Too much diversity isn't good for you. Too much of anything is harmful. What about normalcy?
Haahaa
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I loved the phrase " cultural glasses" because is true that we have an specific perception about other cultures, what we thing or perceive about them, based on our own ideas and comparing them with our culture. I believe that the culture of the countries have been built according to their history and experiences that they had to face and overcom. For that reason, if we had at least a general idea about their history and past, we would understand them better.
Beautifully said, super brilliant, absolutely amazing; please take my words as compliments. American-Mexican woman with Puerto Rican children and Serbian husband.
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the diversity in these lenses are perfect for culture building. We grow more from these interactions with our individual lenses on because we begin to question the standards that are set on our personal lenses, make new opinions against or in support of them. Challenging and questioning even ourselves is important to mental growth.
I believe that culture is so often confused with 'racism' and we are behaving not out of dislike for another race, but simply as a result of our cultural programming....making us feel uncomfortable with different behaviours. When not understood much tension arises.
Melody Tomlinson you explained it perfectly. It’s the barrier of miscommunication that causes the initial frustration, and the feeling of helplessness that raises this tension. However, it is the decision following, the decision to continue the effort in breaking down that barrier or deciding stepping out of your comfort zone and making the effort to understand and be understood isn’t worth it. It’s the effort to find the courage to both embrace and abandon ignorance and step into another’s shoes. That was a lot haha and I don’t know if I even found the right words but I tried!
Sadly culture is the spread of all things we learn and teach between ourselves, be it negative or positive. So racism can be a part of a culture if it is common enough to be considered as such. The problem lies when people take their current believes/culture to be absolute so they prevent themselves from evolving, mentally seeing ahead or learn new things for the betterment of their people, or what it is known as ignorance.
@@alegriart i agree with you. That is why i had this question in my head, when this will end?
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that aside. pure racism is real. you don't want to hurt someone, or deny them of opportunity or call them racial slurs because of "cultural miscommunication"
That was amazing! Cultural glasses, the best term used for different perceptions we get from cultural differences.
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I learned a lot from this video. I often see the world through my “cultural glasses”. Im open to seeking out more diverse settings and relationships for growth purposes.
As a seasoned presenter Management Consultant and global professional in CQ this lecture is one I have huge argument with! What about industry type, generational gaps! Types of communication! This lecturer is obviously a theorist and has never implemented commercial on industrial change in any businesses across the globe!
wow what a great lecture! love it.
grad student here.
Thanks :)
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I had to stop by describing Norway as tiny little country and I found that it is almost the same size of the UK :) but no one usually describe UK as tiny little country, perhaps an island. I think the perception of country size is different when you live in big countries like Canada.
I live in Indonesia, to me every country is just as big as Indoensia, so sometimes i am surprised knowing that a country somewhere else in the world just as big as the city where i live.
I call UK a UN outcast. They need to start calling Andorra a tiny country, not Norway.
Looking through one's prism of reality.
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As an Indian, for me, uttar pradesh- an indian state, easily outnumbers uk- a country
Your teachers who made you watch this has a crush on this guy
he's a guy tho 💀
Amazing point of view about the culture around the world.
Nobody made me see this, but relevant to my study so I watch. Good talk indeed
Thanks :)
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My awesome teacher Lisa Morris from Humber polytechnic made me watch this phenomenal video.
So true and interesting what you say! Something similar happened to me yesterday!!! I grew up in North Carolina where nothing is more important than smiling, being friendly, and speaking in this protocol that basically says> If you are well educated, or not, you never ask a question until you have smiled, greeted the person with chit chat and then ask the question. After leaving NC I lived in Miami, and South American, learned Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Now I live in Madrid, Spain. I laughed that one of your talks you said people are friendly in Spain perspective is so interesting, bc `I've never heard anyone say that. I hear constantly that they are rude. Living here I've changed as well. Here's what happened.
After living in Spain and finding people here much less chatty and less friendly than the US Southern culture, and Latin America ''save Argentina' I too have become a bit drier. Yesterday I was looking for a street in downtown Madrid. A young man was hauling something that looked heavy on a cart, dolly thing. I figured he must do deliveries, he was not a tourist so he may know the street I was looking for. Thinking his load may be heavy I was trying to be considerate, take less time so not to bother him, and because after living in Spain I'm a bit more direct. I blurted out in Spanish,,,,Do you know where Calle Horteleza is? The boy stopped. Looked straight into my eyes and said very seriously, BUENOS DIAS. I knew right away he was South American and I was acting a bit barbaric for just blurting out a question. I smiled, he did not, and I said in Spanish, oh...it's because you are not from Spain. He said, WHAT????? You are not saying Good morning bc I'm not from Spain??? I said, no no no no....I didn't say good morning bc in Spain no one says that. But, you are totally right. The proper way to communicate is to first say good morning, excuse me, blah blah blah. I was rude. He said yes, you were. (certainly a New Yorker or perhaps someone from Norway would have thought I was too friendly...perspective.
I thanked him. I thanked him for reminding me of who I am. And, no he did not know where the street was. I liked the lesson.
Another point. In Spain they say HOLA only when you walk into a store. You think that is friendly. I am used to it now, but in the beginning I found it sort of rude, or uneducated, because I too am used to more formal greetings. Good afternoon, may I help you, how are you? etc. Hola to me sounded like, I am so annoyed you just waked in here and that I have to work here. Don't get me wrong. I love living here! However, after being married to a Spaniard for 20 years, I still feel totally offended if I say Would you like some water, and he says no, instead of no thank you. It is considered to me the rudest thing anyone can do. Crazy, huh? Changing my chip....
Teda Melero great story of perspective! I enjoyed reading and I agree it’s our perceptions
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I enjoyed thanks for sharing
i´m norwegian, and could not have been living in north carolina. sounds exhausting
Thanks for sharing your stories. They resonate with what i talk about in this short lecture. Hope you continue to enjoy Madrid!
I think it is an interesting insight. It was what I had sometimes missed when I see differences. We all have our own cultural glasses differed from another culture. However, the important thing is that we should try not to have prejudice against differences. Of course, our perspective can be changed to theirs.
Also, I was interesting that behaviors haven't been made by chance. Someone's behaviors are affected by his or her circumstances involving lots of cultural factors. We should not judge other's behaviors through our own cultural glasses. Remember that to understand one's behaviors means to know their cultures more accurately.
What if there is a culture that considers important to judge other cultures, or to have prejudices against them? Could that point of view be respected too?
@@mapaulabolanosThe Holy Trinity you mean. And/or something like that.
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I live in a multicultural city. I work at global company with many foreign colleagues. I have traveled across the United States, Canada, a few countries in Europe, and in India. This is very relevant for me.
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It's impossible to stress the role that culture plays within humanity. 90%, values, beliefs, ideas, is unseen, while 10% is seen-tangible artifacts. We are acculturated situationally/contextually throughout our lives as we are constantly learning from those around us.
It allows us to speak in terms of norms for any group, society, or nation, although there are other broad categories such as individualist vs collectivist cultures & ambiguity avoidance & certainty preference vs ambiguity tolerance vs low need for certainty cultures.
As a whole, and we are talking about groups, culture is the single most important determinant of behavior for in-group members.
Thank you and God bless
I appreciate your lucid explanation
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Wonderful, loved the way the cultural diversity is explained. It's all about perception and reality for which, I ask my students to learn to see the things the way they are rather than trying to see the things the way you like them to be seen.
Agree!
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I totally get it since lately I was thinking that even though I am polish, I found myself too extrovert for my nation and more similar to the people from south when it comes to contact with people 😱
So interesting TED!
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Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
I must say that was explained in a very simplist easy to understand manner....well done!
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I am Indonesian. We are extremely friendly to foreighners. If you visit our country our people will smile to you and greet you "Hello mister". And we expect you to willingly let your picture be taken of. And young people are very eager to practice English with you.
It didn't have Heaven's culture.
Beautiful
The influential nature of this material is profound. A book I read with similar insights was a transformative expedition. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
I think diversity is something we have no control of not to mention to enforce it ! ,but I agree with him when he speaks of changing cultural glasses for further better understanding of others from whatever background culture they have. I think ACCEPTING DIVERSITY is a much better term to use than ENFORCING DIVERSITY.
This is such a great insight. We should spend more time understanding different cultures, that way we connect with our fellow brothers!
Shaq Attack ..and sisters.
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As a peruvian, i really apreciate silent moments with friends. I was used to them in Perú. But here in Spain those moments seem to do not exist. People here get akward if you dont talk or they think youre uncomfortable.
Im writing this because this dude said that most of us wouldnt compenhend the scandinavian point of view of a friendship. Well, maybe the scandinavians are a LOT more silent, but we southamericans can get comfortable with being in total silent next to friends.
Excellent speech and great examples!!!
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I believe this to be true in the older generations, but as the world becomes a smaller place, these cultural boundaries become less and less pronounce with the people who are more liberal/open and accept change. This is usually more common with younger people.
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Merci pour ce partage 🙂
Amazing speech with very clear examples. Thanks Julien
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I think that's a very simplified way of thinking if you haven't been exposed to different cultures or at least learnt about them. Most of this talk is really based on a conference where intellectual or intelligent people but are uneducated about different cultures and behaviours. I am very au fait with global social cultures but it doesn't mean I like them all eg I hate ppl almost breathing on me when waiting in a line in the supermarket. Thank goodness Covid has put a stop to that
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This video could be the beginning of an interesting study related to the sociology of emotions. It could be research about how people use them to label other people's emotions and determine their relationship to a conversation and (maybe) the cultural paradigm in which they grew up.
To be honest, I have never thought about how the ideas of equality of opportunity and result correlate. Might be worth reading/seeing more on this topic.
It's social psychology.
9:25 that is exactly how I feel most of the time I’m glad I watch this video & realised cultural differences😱
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This guy has a Norwegian accent even! Great speech
no, its more French... but as he said, he grew up in french canada.. but both france and norway speak at the same part of the mouth so the english accents can sound simular
This is not a French Canadian accent
Sounds like a combination of both
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Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
I think someone should create a complete text for every TEDtalk, so that students who are asked to see it don't have to spend so much time.XD
If you're on a computer, near the "save to playlist button", there are 3 dots that you can click on and if you choose "open transcript" you'll have everything in text, complete with timestamps. I think this only works on videos with subtitles though.
it’s tedTALK not tedTEXT
It there. I remember seeing it in Their website.
@@tarikalakkad2005 yes it's on website
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Why are people in the comments all like “my teacher MADE me watch this”? I mean maybe it’s yet another cultural difference, but that seems really negative towards the video. Yes, a professor ASSIGNED me this video, but I quite enjoyed it and learned some things from it.
As a child, I lived in Hurdal Norway, and I remember how everyone friendly everyone was, how people stopped and spoke to you and asked how is your grandma and other small talks. This new lack of conversation is a modern-day choice of not wanting to talk, but ponder on your own selfish ideals of the day that last half a minute! You are part of that problem of creating closed up independence.
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Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
🤣🤣There's a little dance that starts and people go around the room. This was a great talk.
I find myself stuck on the statement that suggests that adapting is the same as conforming, and framing that in a positive light. I am also aware that my own cultural bias is at play here because I am part of culture that does not encourage conformity, and where adaptation means assimilation not conformity. This is all very interesting.
5:38 argument study shows...
6:58
9:35 cultural misunderstanding
11:32 the key here is to benefit from diversity
I want a source for that study.
Y’all tryna give answers we all know what we came for 😳 📚
MGJ Gang what does the speaker mean when he says “the lens through which your brain sees the world shapes your reality”
@@kevinbock4188 the way you were raised and the people around you affect your perception on the world and people of other cultures
The influence of culture is a very complex system, there are external and internal elements, including not only genetic but also emotional experiences.
It is important to learn about your possibilities but also about your blockages, where they come from and what impact they have on future decisions. I notice one thing in my account, although we are just starting out, that knowledge scares people, they prefer to watch "bouncing boobs" than face knowledge, such a case is the episode about childbirth, many women struggle with the topic of pregnancy, sometimes with the decision to have a child and sometimes with the effects after birth. There are many myths surrounding this topic, which we debunk in our discussion. Despite this, it does not arouse any interest, although the topic is important because everyone was born once.
Welcome, it's worth turning on the English translation and I'm curious about your opinions.
Good and relevant information as to how should one relate to people from different cultures. cultural lens indeed influence us in so many ways.
Thanks!
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great speech
Same here, my teacher told us to watch this. Thanks to online class.
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You know what?
We doesn't have that social distance in our country. Although we have lots of people from different cultures and different citites and countries.
Juat thanks for the video😊
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love the studies of culture,
Situation that happened to me: My Spanish is Mexicanized and Americanized, so when I hear a Spanish speaker from Spain, hard for me to understand, so I must repeat what they have said and hear myself say their words, please do not take offense, trying to understand you better, is a compliment.
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a very good talk indeed
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This is great. CQ is indeed vital. I'm learning more each time I watch this type of videos. IQ, EQ, & CQ are important especially for global leaders. Enhancing all of these will make for better leaders. The illustrations are very helpful as well. Thank you.
What is IQ, EQ, CQ?
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I am actually experiencing culture shock, and this Ted Talk is worth watching. ´´It´s not about what you see, it´s about what you perceived,´´ well said.
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In NYC natives generally do not speak to strangers. Some of us don't talk to neighbors. I have been told that in rural areas, small towns speak to each other. Rural=homogenous. Urban=heterogeneity.
Different not better.
Teacher had me watch this, and I find this informative and useful~
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Bruh
This is amazing!! It made me see culture with different glasses!
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Lucidly explained, thanks!
Maybe I should move to a place where I'm considered polite.
😂🤣😂
cute 😊😉
In little towns we will be very appreciate i went to guatemala husbands land very small town they ride Motorcycle the most of the people and if we walk people say hi to you when you go to a restaurant they we say to you provecho! Means enjoy your meal. Everybody talk and say hola good afternoon i was in my mind oh my gosh when husband will stop saying hi? Lol is very cute that people say hola every time they see you!
HAHAHAHA!!!
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He forgot to mention actually there are 5 ways so he missed 2. #4) observe and continue being yourself and #5) be yourself still but show gratitude when you see the behavior you like seeing and ignore the behaviors you don't like seeing. Then eventually they usually conform to adapt into what you like.
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@@jameshenrysmith idk what that means
im more 'Norvegian then I thought!
Same.
Here I'm watching the video for my homework 😁
Everyone sees the world through cultural glasses. "Its not about what you see. It's about what you perceive."
Cultural glasses filters our reality.
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Omg I understand my all life now !! I'm french but I think like asian people, in community !
Alice tell me more!!!
Unrelated but he's handsome. (my lecturer told me to watch dis btw)
Good and relevant information as to how should one relate to people from different cultures
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This a great video but I’m still shocked that he included a correlation assumption error to try to argue that discrimination is actually good.
I think maybe he meant to talk about affirmative action, it can be a good thing, of course depending on your cultural view
@@smerdopsis6092 that’s precisely what he’s talking and a he’s advocating active discrimination based on a first year statistics mistake.
Culture has worked so well in the past! I'm going to name all the countries with a lot of diversity! :D
Austro-Hungary
The Ottoman Empire
Serbia
The Mongolian Empire
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Portuguese Empire
Spanish Empire
Korea
Israel
Palestine
Jordan
Iran
Iraq
Sudan
China
Russia
Danish Empire
India
Sinkiang
Romania
Bulgaria
Germany
France
Slovakia
Northern Cyprus
Southern Cyprus
Ukraine
Bangladesh
great video, cultural glasses it's a great concept
thanks to my teacher for watching this video
What a brilliant way of understanding 👏
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The bus stop made me laugh - here in Spain an old granny would see a full bench, elbow her way in anyway, and wriggle around until she has enough room and everyone else is almost falling off! However, don’t agree with the comment about personal space - when we feel uncomfortable, most of us realize that it’s because the other person is too close, we’re just too polite to say it, hence the dance.
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Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
Culture = social norms....... Sometimes however what is considered normal in a society is actually dysfunctional - especially regarding boundries: who is responsible for what..... or so it seems in some families and/or communities....
However when everyone is adapted to this way of thinking a new culture is created so then one needs to bring in those who are of the old culture otherwise it then becomes unbalanced once again
I love the way you explain this situasjon in Norway cause all is tre is just that you make it Funny and simple and stuff 😂
Thanks :)
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I agree with him completely, especially the part of personal space between South Americans and Northern Europeans!
South Americans actually go as far as touching the other person!
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Trying to quantify human qualities is too difficult. Not that we shouldn't try but ... in all of these examples an important factor is how genuine the intent behind the communication is regardless of culture. It makes a huge difference.
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This was sooooo helpful
Thanks!
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🤯 I enjoyed this video. Thank you!
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the teacher made me do this so fun!!
I loved this video ... thank u sir
Love from india
See we Indians just say what we feel without hesitation like you did. You can go through the chats and see how open Indians are about their opinions ,and I love that. The reason I am saying this is because I had the exact same opinion about the video and it's nice to know that someone else has the same feeling and perspective.
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Myself made me watch it and i love it
thanks!! it helps me!!
Amazing Lecture, Thank you Julien.
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speech teacher made me do this
It seems like the point he was making is that people are uncomfortable with different cultures, and that there is some nebulous benefit to making ourselves uncomfortable, but he never mentioned what that benefit might be. He never mentioned what the cost of it would be either.
Wonderful inspiration
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so handsome and intelligent. I enjoyed this though it was for classwork
why was this class wrok?
Okay let me put it this way, it was for my homework for organizational diversity/ multiculturalism topic @@Ebrahim_17
lilian okalo yes , I am in ☺️
💕❤️ fantastic insight !
Thanks!
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Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love ❤and peace all over the world🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Engineer Graham Bolt from Nashville Tennessee, where are you from?
POV:Exams made me watch this
Very informative.
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Thank you for an amazing content
Not sure it was amazing. It didn't have Heaven culture.