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American vs. Italian Culture

 

January 28th 2014

 

I want to thank the following students from 3DL Alkassis Amera, Bordos Inesa, Regalia Paula, Spirito Elisa, Poretti Marina, Tucci Marta, Barjami Iris, Molla Sofia, Caccia Alice, Ascrizzi Francesca, Miano Valentina, Libretti Alessia, Mancuso Letizia, Rimoldi Federica, Frontini Camilla, Altavilla Maria Giulia, Ciancia Valeria, Campobello Giulia, Croci Rachele, Cormani Rebecca for their interest in the joint project between Italian students at the Daniele Crespi Institute of Secondary Education (www.liceocrespi.it) and the MDC, Social Environment class, Florida, USA   (www.mdc.edu).

 

From October 16th  2013 to the end of the term in December the Italian students have communicated with the following selected  American students via school email only: Delgadillo Lorely, Estrade-In Baptiste Anne, Fonseca Jason, Pereira Deivis, Alarcon Melissa, Carrera Ivo, Medina Monica, Mendes Eder.

 

As there were more Italian students participating in this assignment, together with the American teacher and instructor Ms Patricia Schwartz, whom I want to thank for the opportunity she has given to me,  I decided to divide them into groups and to allow only the team leader to be the email contact between the project.

After making contact with the first “meet and greet”  email, the students have been engaged in email “conversations” to learn about each other’s cultures. Our students  are generally very good at English, but I  remember that one of  Ms Schwartz’s suggestions was that her students should not speak in idioms or slang that may be germane to Americans. In fact one of the universal traits of all cultures is language and to compare different cultures using the same language to communicate was one of our main aims.

Apart from the information gathered via email, the students had been provided with a list of web sites and encouraged to surf the Internet for useful materials to be guided on what topics  they might wish to discuss with their American counterparts.

 

The visible  results of this project are the following Power Point Presentations, five of them are ‘traditional’ whereas three are more dynamic. In fact thanks to their Maths teacher, Mrs Valeria Mariani, some Italian students decided to work with Prezi, a programme which bids farewell to one-dimensional thinking and welcomes instead the power of inter-connection and flexibility.

 

But I think there are other results, which are less apparent but come clear if I read my students’ comments on the project. Of course everything can be done better, but thank you for writing:

 

“(…)I’ve personally learnt a lot from it (the project): we often think that people living in other countries are very different from us, and don’t even try to understand their point of view. We definitely AREN’T so different (…)” (F.)

 

 “I think one of the most interesting things we’ve found out was about stereotypes: about Americans, but most of all about Italians! I’d never realized foreigners could really believe such things about the Italians! Plus, I also understood some of the things I, like many others, had been thinking about Americans were just prejudices.! (M.G.)

 

Vittoria Macellaro

 Italian Instructor

 

 

 

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