Cross-Cultural Blog

Very interesting exercise but unfortunatly we was not that competent on using the whiteboard function since we've never done it before. However it was really fun and we got to discuss many similarities and differencies between our universeties. We now know more about Stanford and about using Marratech, a great tool for communication and interaction across continents. Greetings from Linus, Jens and Hannes!

The name of our group is Formaggio del Gato. We found that the name described our discussion about multicultural rhetoric and use of different languages well. Thanks for a good conversation and have a nice day!

Despite the differences we identified between the two cultures, we realized that there is a common thread throughout all cultures. Especially in this modern converging world, we all aspire to be more multicultural and enrich our understanding for differences. Hence our group name, Team Multicultural.

We explored in depth the websites for both universities. The Orebro University website had two versions: an English and a Swedish version. On the Swedish version, there was a woman of African descent in front of a Scandinavian castle. This shows the diversity of the university, despite the stereotype of the nation being homogenously white. While the English version of the website had a crossroads sign post, with several different country names on it. This demostrates the university's wish to bring together a diverse and multicultural student body.

Despite the differences we identified between the two cultures, we realized that there is a common thread throughout all cultures. Especially in this modern converging world, we all aspire to be more multicultural and enrich our understanding for differences. Hence our group name, Team Multicultural.

We explored in depth the websites for both universities. The Orebro University website had two versions: an English and a Swedish version. On the Swedish version, there was a woman of African descent in front of a Scandinavian castle. This shows the diversity of the university, despite the stereotype of the nation being homogenously white. While the English version of the website had a crossroads sign post, with several different country names on it. This demostrates the university's wish to bring together a diverse and multicultural student body.

Maria Mizell, Rachel Lambert, Ricky Davila
Team Name: Hot n' Cold Festis
We chose our team name because here in California it's warm outside compared to Sweden but we're freezing and they were warm even though Sweden is freezing this time of year. And the Festis part is a Danish drink that they brought in as an artifact. We like to have a good time...with non-alcoholic drinks. The most memorable moment for us was just chatting with them about bands from Sweden that we too listen to and talking about the differences in colleges/universities in Sweden and America. One new insight that we've gained is their background information and experience in the university. What we thought to be modern looking they said was not in fact modern but was just made that way to cover up the inefficiencies of the school's website. Overall, rhetoric can be perceived in different ways depending on experience and cultural background. We really enjoyed talking to Karin and Therese! They were great!

"Hot 'n Cold Festis" is our group name. What we wan't to say with our name is that we are hot inside in a cold country, while our friends in Stanford are cold inside but in a hot distrikt. And we are all party-pepole, we like to have fun, and we like other cultures. We are very much alike.

Today we learned about our cultural similarities and differences. We talked alot about scandinavian and american architecture and design.

After some discussion we came up with the name "lean green äppleteam", which was refering to previously mentioned discussion about architecture and design, our shared values on environmental issues and so forth.

The most memorable moment was when Ola showed his underwear, to everyones delight.

When looking at what we take with us from this meeting, what insights we reached it struck us that we do share quite a lot of values and have similar views on a whole slew of things. For example designpreferences or what we noticed in our different universities sites.

To sum it up: It was NIEC.

Looking forward to next week and the introduction of the Cairo students. KOM IGEN NU BRITT-MARIE, KÖR FÖR FA-AN!

During our video discussion, we learned that rhetoric can translate differently between cultures and multiple interpretations can arise.

Our group team name was Formaggio del gato (!!!) because after looking at the roads signs on the English Orebro site, we wanted to have a name that was exotic to both of our cultures.

It was really surprising that sports isn't as big of a deal at their university than at Stanford.

Next time, we won't make many assumptions and not be too outgoing so we can hear what our other cross-cultural teammates have to say (sorry!)

Natalia, Chandler, and Atira at Stanford University

What we thought to be modern looking they said was not in fact modern but was just made that way to cover up the inefficiencies of the school's website

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We spent a lot of time discussing how some brands appeal to people from different cultures in different ways. Travis for example has his own aquarium product designs company and in order to appeal to different global markets he has to take into account different visual aspects that attract consumers. So in the European market he adopts Euro style marketing strategies. This means getting rid of heavy graphics and making everything look more minimalistic. As one of our cultural artifacts we talked about Apple products specifically Irene’s Ipod Touch and Ola’s Iphone. We also compared these products to Travis and Cyana’s Blackberry phones. This led to a discussion on simplicity and design which then ultimately led us to our team name: Lean Green Apple (in Swedish) Team. We’re being dismissed from class but we’ll continue this blog later on. It was great connecting with Sweden!

Today we had a more difficult task though the time wasn't enough. The task was too big and we really wished we could have been more prepered. We enjoyed the time with our new friends, but we think these kind of meetings can be much better and give us more if the task were more suited for the time we have. Love to all of you! Hope next time will give us a bit more!

It's interesting to see the cultural differences between Stanford, a american university and Sweden

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It's interesting to see the cultural differences between Stanford, a american university and Sweden

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