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Find an experience that allows you to interact with a culture that either is a different race, ethnicity, major religion, or sexual orientation from yourself or represents a culture that is significantly different from your own in terms of one of Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions. 

This project is comprised of three parts:

1.Spend at least an hour at an event that immerses yourself in a different culture than your own. Examples of events might be a cultural festival, religious service, an art or music exhibition, or a family dinner/ party. 
2.Spend an hour visiting and talking with an individual from a different culture than your own where you learn about their culture and how it is similar to or different from yours. This person does not have to be from the same culture as the first part of this paper, although it might be helpful. You may want to ask the person you are interacting with questions raised from your first experience. 
3.Write a 750-1000 word paper on what you observed and experienced during your interactions that was different or similar to your culture, and your reaction to what you saw, heard, and experienced. Use information related to culture from your text and other resources to guide your analysis.
The point of this assignment is to spend time with a cultural group that is a major difference from your own. If you are white/Caucasian, then spending time with someone from Western Europe, Canada, or Australia is not likely to be a major difference in culture. Spending time with someone originally from Greece, however, would be appropriate because Greek culture is significantly different from American culture in terms of uncertainty-avoidance (US=lower uncertainty-avoidance; Greece= high uncertainty-avoidance culture). 

Similarly, differences in religion should be major differences, not differences in denominations within the same religion. For example, if you are a Christian, you should avoid just going to a different denomination (such as Baptist, Methodist, Mormon, Quaker, Roman Catholic, and Greek Orthodox). You might try going to a Jewish synagogue, an Islamic mosque, or a Buddhist temple. An exception would be, if English is your first language, going to a Spanish-language religious service for your particular denomination, because the primary audience might be a different ethnicity, nationality, and/or language group from your own.