1) This class has enabled me to open up my mind and thoroughly understand different cultures. Culture is an accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, behaviors that are shared by identifiable group of people with a common history and verbal/nonverbal symbol system. By understanding different cultures I feel that I am able to communicate better with people, especially ones that I am not familiar with. This also helps me to break the uncertainty avoidance when talking …showed first 75 words of 783 total…

…showed last 75 words of 783 total…discuss more history like the holocaust. I find the holocaust very interesting and the movie that one group showed from the museum of tolerance really made me interested. I think I will have to go to the museum and check it out myself one day. By understanding more of the cultural backgrounds people had, I think that would help me understand people better. I really enjoyed this class and I learned a lot from it.