Objective
Here’s a fast-paced activity to highlight different cultural variables XMU35WYDK45F
Ask participants to complete this sentence: I am a(n) _______________ .
After they have done this, ask them to complete the same sentence 10 different ways.
Ask each person to place his or her list (written side down) on a table and pick up some else’s.
Debrief by calling out various categories and asking for examples from different lists.
Here are some suggested categories
- activity level (couch potato)
- age (senior citizen)
- association membership (Mensa member)
- astrological sign (Aries)
- belief (pro-life proponent)
- birth order (first born)
- ethnicity (hispanic)
- family type (person from a large family)
- gender (woman)
- interests (mystery-story reader)
- language (Spanish speaker)
- marital status (divorced woman)
- national origin (African)
- national politics (Democrat)
- organization (IBM employee)
- personal characteristic (impatient person)
- personality type (introvert)
- physical characteristic (tall person)
- political ideology (capitalist)
- profession (trainer)
- professional approach (behaviorist)
- race (Caucasian)
- region (Southerner)
- religion (Roman Catholic)
- socioeconomic status (yuppie)
- thinking style (analytical)
- tribe (Kpelle)
Stress the main learning point that there are more dimensions of difference than race or national origin.