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Thanks Birgitt, I'm mostly interesting in what is universal (i.e. option 2.) As someone who has moved around a fair amount myself, I can certainly identify with your experience. I am particularly inspired by the following quote attributed to David Bohm (supposedly from "On Dialogue" but it is not it my copy of the book): From time to time, (the) tribe (gathered) in a circle. They just talked and talked and talked, apparently to no purpose. They made no decisions. There was no leader. And everybody could participate. There may have been wise men or wise women that were listened to a bit more – the older ones – but everybody could talk. The meeting went on, until it finally seemed to stop for no reason at all and the group dispersed. Yet after that, everybody seemed to know what to do, because they understood each other so well. They could get together in smaller groups and do something or decide things. Bui On 18/01/2012 12:33 PM, Birgitt Williams wrote: One consideration...it is important to distinguish whether you wish to focus on 1.what is different among different cultures OR 2.what is universal and the same among the entire human raceI personally spent years attempting to understand what was different and spent three years of training as a cultural interpreter. I finally figured out that unless I was deeply 'in' a culture, I could not really understand. I find this even in my own life. I was born in Germany, yet because I moved to Canada when I was two, I don't totally understand the German culture or forms of dialogue. Because I was an immigrant into Canada, I also never came to fully understand the Canadian culture of ways of dialogue. And then I moved to the southeastern USA some years ago and still am finding my way after 12 years to understand this culture and the nuances of dialogue. I have spent some considerable time in India and in Africa...and the same findings. So, after all of my investigations to the cultural differences, when I was putting together our workshop modules, I focused on what is universal, what is the same. We are all members of the human race and what is the same is in us all. Blessings, Birgitt Williams www.dalarinternational.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bui Petersen Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:31 AM To: [email protected]; World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] Articles on dialogue in different cultures I intend to have them do that but it is part of an academic course. So it is required to be at least a little bit academic. Thanks for the suggestion though. :) Bui On 17/01/2012 10:40 PM, doug wrote:Bui-- Permit me to borrow the hat from the man and ask: Why have them read about it and listen to someone talking about it? Instead you could have them do dialogue and then report out what it was like and what they learned.... Or not.... <Handing hat back to the man> :- Doug. On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:23 -0330, Bui Petersen wrote:Hi fellow OSers, I have been ask to present a talk about on dialogue as part of university course on Cross-cultural communication. I am thinking that it may be interesting to talk about dialogue and how some of the approaches we use are influenced by traditions from different cultures (e.g. circles, OS marketplace, etc.). The intent to assign reading for the students prior to the class, but it is proving to be a bit more difficult than expected to find articles on this topic. There are lots of sources on how people from the "west" have gone to other countries to do dialogue, but I have found very little describing traditional dialogue, neither theory or practice. (one likely problem is that what I am referring to as "dialogue" may well be called something else in the literature). Does anyone have any suggestions? Theoretical sources are OK too. Always grateful for the generous help from this list. Thanks! 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