Square Pegs and Round Holes

Elementary, Middle, Secondary

Description

This lesson is a simple cross-cultural contact simulation. The simulation allows students to experience the conflict and misunderstanding that can occur with cross-cultural contact. In debriefing the simulation, students recognize the need for tolerance, acceptance, communication and compromise when interacting with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The resource is inspired by and loosely based on (although quite simplified in comparison to) the “Bafa Bafa” cross-cultural interaction simulation activity described in Pike and Selby's The Global Classroom 1 (Toronto: Pippin Publishing, 1999, pp. 189–195).

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