What will happen if your teacher hit you when you make a small mistake.
I guess, in singapore, our culture, we do not accept that. Most probably, the parents of the student beaten up will go through means and ways to get back at that teacher. ( so teacher be careful...)
In the above video, a teacher was actually laying hands on his female student. Slapping and hitting her on her head so hard.
Well, this is where what was written in the lecture note comes in. The culture.
first, the definition for culture, we specific it to be a template for living. In our singapore culture, because we were ruled by the british long long long long time ago, we sort of inherit some of the western culture. In the western culture, applying physical punishment onto your student is viewed as a crime. Something YOU SHOULDN'T DO. Thus, we can classify ourselves as low context culture, we respect human rights and privacy.However, In the video, we are looking at korea. Korea, adopted high context culture. They think that rejecting someone right up is a rude thing to do. Furthermore, they strong believe that children or kids should listen to their parents or any elderly in every circumstance. If you don't, then you are a bad kid . Thus, because of this different culture context, it is normal and a RIGHTFUL thing for a teacher to beat their students if they are 'naughty' ( well, they believe sparing the rod will spoil the kid) , but when we look at it in your view that is unconsciously influenced by our culture context, having to see a teacher beating up their student is so unprofessional and a BIG NO NO .
NOw, the activity of the day: watch the video....
write down or write to me how you feel after watching it.
If you felt that, is alright. NO big deal. then i guess, you belong to the high context culture.
However, if you felt anger or something along that line.Then you belong to the low context culture.
A quick check...are you like this???
For high context culture,
you tend to reject people in a nicer way. you won't directly SAY NO in front of them. A very face-saving person. And you resrict your codes and contextual cues. You used polychronic. You tend to squeeze alot of activity in the same time. and always keep some allowance for the other party to come late.
For low context culture,
you are more open. If you hated it, you will say it. Silence to you is a Big NO NO. you used monochronic time oritentation. You attend one meeting at one time. Time to you is not elastic. You have no room for late comers. If the party you meeting is late, you will just walk off.
Tell me ..tell me.. what are you???
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comms lecture notes
and the youtube video
Teacher who beat up the student.(if you did not beat her up...we won't have anything to talk about)
Student who got beaten. ( if your teacher did not beat you... we won't know you got such a violent teacher.)