{"id":79,"date":"2018-10-26T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/chapter\/challenge-six-get-uncomfortable\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:08:07","slug":"challenge-six-get-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/chapter\/challenge-six-get-uncomfortable\/","title":{"raw":"Challenge Six: Get Uncomfortable","rendered":"Challenge Six: Get Uncomfortable"},"content":{"raw":"
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Your challenge is to do at least one hour of fieldwork, immersing yourself in a cross-cultural or sub-cultural experience \u2013 a place, event, activity that makes you uncomfortable. Do fieldwork and write up a \u201cthick description\u201d of your experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Objective<\/h3>\r\nExperience more, experience difference, and experience differently \u2013 to practice using communication, empathy, and thoughtfulness to really experience the world from a different cultural position.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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1. Stretch yourself to experience a different cultural or subcultural reality. For example, if you are atheist, go to church. If you are Christian, go to a Buddhist retreat. In short, do something you would probably never otherwise do and open yourself up to the experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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2. Make sure that it is \u201ccultural\u201d in that it involves engaging and interacting with people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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3. After the event, write up a \u201cthick description\u201d of your experience. A thick description is an exquisitely detailed description of the setting, participants, activities, interactions, and social dramas playing out that allow the reader to feel ad if they are really there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Go to ANTH101.com\/challenge6 for additional tips and information.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

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Your challenge is to do at least one hour of fieldwork, immersing yourself in a cross-cultural or sub-cultural experience \u2013 a place, event, activity that makes you uncomfortable. Do fieldwork and write up a \u201cthick description\u201d of your experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Experience more, experience difference, and experience differently \u2013 to practice using communication, empathy, and thoughtfulness to really experience the world from a different cultural position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Stretch yourself to experience a different cultural or subcultural reality. For example, if you are atheist, go to church. If you are Christian, go to a Buddhist retreat. In short, do something you would probably never otherwise do and open yourself up to the experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2. Make sure that it is \u201ccultural\u201d in that it involves engaging and interacting with people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3. After the event, write up a \u201cthick description\u201d of your experience. A thick description is an exquisitely detailed description of the setting, participants, activities, interactions, and social dramas playing out that allow the reader to feel ad if they are really there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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