Cultural Awareness in Writing - Ernest White II with FlyBrother.com

1. Cultural Awareness in Writing
Ernest White II
@FlyBrother
fly-brother.com

2. When writing about cultures, try to avoid:
● assuming you've got everyone pegged
● generalizing entire populations
● assuming that you're the only one with privilege
● “othering” the culture you're writing about
● using loaded words such as primitive and exotic

3. When writing, nay, when traveling,
it is imperative to:
● admit that you don't know everything
● let people tell their own stories
● suspend judgments
● strive for empathy
● systematically check your assumptions
● embrace ambiguity
● celebrate diversity
Partially sourced from “What is Cultural
Awareness?,” Stephanie Quappe and
Giovanna Cantatore, 2005.