Intercultural Interactions: Cultures in Conversation
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Intercultural Interactions
U.S. Practice
Cultural code
Popular USA
International Interaction
Terms
Sequences
L1, L2, Ln…
Finnish Practice
Cultural Code
Finland
Tango Finlandia
Background
What are the patterns of practice in Finland and the U.S. and what do they mean?
Re-broadcast every year for about 8 years
Also broadcast in Finland, in Finnish, and in Britain
Why?
Movie
People not in touch with anyone else but themselves
“Shyest people on earth”
Intensively private
Being noticed is embarrassing
But they love the tango
Deciphering Codes
Methods
The televised text itself
Word-image-sound
Watch viewers watch: video taped
Gather reactions to document (pedagogy)
Facilitate discussions between viewers
Identify similarities and differences in the matter of communication (used in the
document reported about the document
Analysis as part of monograph
Coined: Echoing Sequence, Parallel Voices
U.S Discourses/Impressions
Sad, don’t express feelings, cold dreary and lonely
Reticent, brooding, melancholy
Hard to express feelings
