The document provides a sample make-up activity on cultural awareness and intercultural communication. It includes tasks such as researching demographic data from a school institutional report, listing categories of discrimination, describing communication styles among cultures, and identifying appropriate questions to ask international students. The activity also includes decoding the meanings of idioms in different languages.

1. Sample Make-Up Activity Name
Cultural Awareness & Inter-Cultural Communication
1. Search OTC’s 2010 OTC’s Institutional Snapshot, revised at
http://www.otc.edu/Documents_Self_Study/HLC-Snapshot-Revised-
1_28_11.pdf and list total numbers of students, including male and
female, in district or out of district, from each demographic group:
a. ________ Nonresident alien
b. ________ Black
c. ________ American Indian/Alaskan Native
d. ________ Asian/Pacific Islander
e. ________ Hispanic
f. ________ White
g. ________ Race/Ethnicity
2. Search Google and list at least 5 categories or victim groups of
discrimination other than race. For example: students with physical
handicaps.
a. ____________________________________
b. ____________________________________
c. ____________________________________
d. ____________________________________
e. ____________________________________
3. In relation to multiculturalism, what does it mean to:
a. Emphasize similarities but value differences
__________________________________________________
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2. b. Respect the right of others to have opinions that are different
from your own.
__________________________________________________
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c. Be open-minded and patient
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d. Be professional
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4. According to the site pbs.org http://www.pbs.org/ampu/crosscult.html
list and describe six different communication styles among diverse
culture groups.
a. __________________________________________________
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__________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________
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c. __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
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d. __________________________________________________
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3. e. __________________________________________________
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f. __________________________________________________
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5. According to the Website “Training Tutors to Work with International
Students
http://hawaii.hawaii.edu/tlc/tutor%20training/TRAINING%20TUTORS
%20TO%20WORK%20WITH%20INTERNATIONAL%20STUDENTS.
htmWhat are four questions that are okay to ask a student who is
from a different country than you?
a. __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________
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__________________________________________________
d. __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
6. Complete the Idiom activity and check with Carolyn or Sam for the
answers.
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4. Idioms
An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal
definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that
is known only through common use. Can you decipher the meaning behind
the following cultural idioms?
Idiom Language Translation
Not hanging noodles on your ears Russian
To live like a maggot in bacon German
To reheat cabbage Italian
Spanish,
Like fingernail and dirt
Mexico
Bang your butt on the ground French
Plucked like a chicken Yiddish
To bite the elbow Russian
Smoke from 7 orifices of head Chinese
To become naked Japanese
An ant milker Arabic
Give it to someone with cheese Spanish
Squeezer of limes Hindi
Portuguese,
To smell a sock
Brazil
To give the pumpkin Spanish
To hang oneself Spanish
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