The examples given in this exercise were bold and simple, using generalising stereotypes. For the purpose of practicality in this course, they also ignored the idea of culture does not equal race, using only people’s origin as an indicator of their culture.

Real-Life-Task: The next time you find yourself criticising someone’s behaviour due to their cultural background (e.g. origin, religion, age, ideals…), try to put that easy answer aside and think about other reasons for their behaviour instead. If you are well-acquainted with that person, you may even ask them for reasons and perhaps find out what was really behind it.