Presentation "Foreigners and Japanese Adapting to Each Other" at Kansai University in Osaka on adapting to life in Japan, described more fully at permalink https://hcommons.social/@SteveMcCarty/115304621940742746

The presentation recommended being a professional foreigner as a middle way between alienation and assimilation, or between remaining an outsider and going native.

Check out the slideshow, with actual untouched photos as backgrounds, at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396013192

A bilingual slide has a message to Japanese people about adapting to the foreigners in their midst. Show it to any Japanese people you know who are hesitant about intercultural communication:

「外国人と日本人の相互適応」：異文化間コミュニケーションやバイリンガリズムの研究結果による日本人へのアドバイス：外国人に適応すること：外国語と文化を学びましょう。限られた第二言語を使うことをためらわないでください。もっとオープンで、好奇心旺盛で、寛容で、広い心を持ちましょう。異文化交流は日本文化にとって脅威ではありません。日本は世界有数の強力なブランドです。バイリンガリズムの研究によると、バイリンガル、またはバイカルチュラルになることでも、母国文化を失うことはありません。バイリンガルになることで選択肢が増え、ひいては自由が増えます。

#Japan #Japanese #foreigners #culture #InterculturalCompetence #adaptation #bilingualism

Our friend Tim Hall of https://religionmatters.org/ just shared an exciting new preprint on religious literacy as part of global education:

"Amplifying Religious Literacy Education through the Frameworks of Global Competence".

This is a great read and a great resource for anyone who cares about global education and global cultural competence.

Download it for free here: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202408.0563/v1

#ReligiousLiteracy #ReligiousStudies #GlobalEducation #GlobalCompetency #CulturalStudies #CrossCulturalEducation #CrossCulturalUnderstanding #Education #Edutooters #InterculturalCompetence @education @edutooters @academicchatter

I would like to thank the University of Erfurt and the Open Access Fund of the State of Thuringia for supporting the #OpenAccess publication of my monograph.

Schauer, G.A. (2024). #Intercultural competence and #pragmatics. Palgrave.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-44472-2

#InterculturalCompetence , #ModernForeignLanguages , #MFL , #HigherEducation , #languagelearning , #LanguageTeaching