"ALBATROS Method” -Erasmus Open educational resource (RED)

ALBATROS Method

Costești Technological High School - ROMANIA

EUROPEAN STUDENTS RESPONSIBLE, MOTIVATED, INTELLIGENT EMOTIONALLY AND USEFULLY

Made by Teacher: Ghițulescu Daniela,

Project funded by the European COMMISSION Project No. 2020-1-RO01-KA229-080403

ALBATROS Method Getting to know and understand each other regardless nationality, language or culture!

ALBATROS Method It sometimes happens that you feel like you're talking to someone, but you don't get along. Or to see something and not understand the meaning of the gesture, or, on the contrary, to intrigue or offend you.

ALBATROS Method In order to avoid all types of misunderstandings, various activities can be carried out at school, during counseling classes, as well as during extracurricular activities.

The methods that can be used are:  brainstorming,  role play,  debating problem situations,  thinking of solutions and interpretations

Students are faced with hypothetical situations, pictures or movies and must discuss and debate what is happening in each of them. After establishing a common point of view, the real situation is presented to them and so they can see if they have deduced correctly or not.

The gesture of offering a flower that is considered a gesture of great sensitivity and common sense to us.

In the Emirates, the gesture of giving someone a flower pot symbolizes wishing them death.

ALBATROS Method The color red is considered in Afghanistan to be of the devil.

In China, the color red is associated with joy and festivity, in Japan, with struggle and anger, in Europe, with love, and in the culture of red skins, with masculinity.

The gesture of offering flowers can be very risky.

In Norway, for example, flowers are offered in even numbers, in pairs.

Exceptions are funerals, where the flowers are offered in odd numbers.

In Argentina, gifts consisting of knives or knife sets are not recommended for business partners, be they hunting. This symbolizes the desire to break a relationship.

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Giving priority in the corridor, at the elevator or at the door, carrying the bag or file of a woman business partner can be a nice gesture in Romania, but it involves the risk of an indignant refusal or at least of arousing suspicion in the West.

Opening the door to let a highranking woman pass before a round of negotiations or a board meeting can be considered an offensive gesture.

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In Thailand, it is considered disrespectful to cross one's legs or point the tip of one's foot at someone because this part of the body is seen as inferior and unworthy to draw attention to it.

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In France and Belgium, the sign for "OK" is interpreted differently by the US and the states in which American culture makes its presence felt. For them, this sign means nullity, worthlessness or it is the way I convey to you that a certain problem has not been solved. In Japan, this sign is interpreted as a request to receive a bribe.

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In the Philippines it is considered extremely offensive and, in some cases, even punished with arrest, the gesture of calling someone by using the pointer (as in Western culture a familiar person is called) because it is believed that this gesture is intended only for dogs and to approach a person in this way means that he is seen as equivalent to an animal.

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If you visit China, do not be surprised if some gestures are tolerated, while in our country they are considered rude. Burping, for example, is used as a compliment to food, while spitting in public, which is not allowed in many cultures, is considered a gesture of personal hygiene in China, as is blowing the nose on the floor.

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Sources: Google Images https://respiro.ro/time/diferentele-culturalegesturi-care-pot-genera-conflicte https://ro.warbletoncouncil.org/diferenciasculturales-6158 https://thestudent.ro/diferente-culturale/

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Teacher Daniela Ghițulescu Tehnological High School Costesti