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UNIVERSIDAD DE GUANAJUATO
Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Inglés
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ABOUT INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
When catholic religion is inherited but not professed
PROFESOR DOUGLAS GOODWIN
Autor: Eduardo Hernández Rangel
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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION EVENT...........................................................1ANALYZING THE EVENT......................................................................................2COMMENTS ABOUT THE CLASS..........................................................................4
Intercultural communication event
My wife and I share our lives but not at all. Both grew up in Catholic families and her
parents and my parents have always followed the traditions of their grandparents. I
guess all of them are very Catholic, almost extremist. In my case, when I was around 16
years old, I started having many doubts about how Catholicism is professed and taught
by the church, the priests, etc. When I was 18 years I refused to go to church because
from my point of view was an issue fulfilled of doubts on my mind, dishonesty and a lot
of incredible but not trustful facts. I believe in God but in my personal and particular point
of view. On the other hand, from the Catholic perception my wife seems to have a very
marked reverence for all the issues Catholic religion has. She believes in God and
professes and practices all the Catholic religion covenants, she has done this exactly as
her family has taught her. She believes in catholic religion, but she tries to ignore it when
I am close to her in order to avoid a confrontation or differences between us.
My son is ten years old, and he attends to Church’s events. He was baptized as a
member of the Catholic Church and now according to my wife he needs to have his First
Communion. He attends to church every Friday and he has been since last year
because is a mandatory requirement in order to have a Communion. It seems to me that
my son has been spending a lot of his valuable time studying the bible and attending to
all of those meetings. However, my wife argues that he needs to do it because it is a
catholic tradition and since both profess that religion; they have to commit themselves in
conquering the goal of my son having his Communion. This is not important for me.
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He is going to have his final exam next week and if he passes it, he will be ready to have
his First Communion; I really hope that. I talked with my wife and my son and I
expressed “if you fail the exam, there is no reason for you to attend more bible lessons
and waste one more year, we can enroll you in some kind of private lessons and then in
my opinion that will be more meaningful than praying every Friday afternoon”. After my
argument, I noticed that my son does not seem to be worried about that exam, also, he
expressed that if he does not pass the exam, we would like to be enrolled in a course
and then he will give up attending to Church. From my particular point of view, my son
is now constructing his own ideas about Catholic religion. How ever, we would like to
please his mother.
Analyzing the event
Most of the time, when people take on the family’s customs is because they grew up
with these habits and values. Even thought, a few of them do not follow the same
traditions and the acculturation process is interrupted. Acculturation, in this case, is
faced just in one stage of their lives while the person is exposed to the customs,
traditions and values. They tend to accept or assimilate the situation but sometimes with
certain doubts that are remarked when they separate from the family. In this case, my
family inculcated me the customs, traditions and values about Catholic religion, and I
lived with when living with them. When I realized that professing the Catholic religion did
not convince me at all, I started to believe in my own set of values and of course I
constructed my own point of view about faith. Assimilation was not part of this
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inheritance and finally I misplaced my traditional family values, including the interest to
profess it. In the case of my wife, she respects all the customs related to the catholic
religion. When she has a chance, she attends the events related to Catholic Church; she
tends to confess with the priest in order to get atonement and feel free about her sins.
She instilled the religion values to my son but he is having a lot of doubts at the same
time. Ethnicity and identity about that religion group are strong and for these reasons I
do not oppose to that but I feel they are wasting a lot of time trying to fulfill the
requirements to obtain the First Communion. My wife is influencing my son and an
assimilation process is being carried out and undoubtedly the grade of acculturation is
going to be higher. I am against professing Catholic religion especially in the case of my
son because he did not have the opportunity to choose his religion; of course if he wants
to profess it I would have to accept that fact. I am being prejudiced about how Catholic
priests profess their faith and that is the reason I do not like Church.
In conclusion, intercultural communication in that group of people is given in plenty of
situations. They convey messages in order to transmit their values, customs and
traditions and all the member of the group understand the utterances. They have learnt
to pass the culture to their descendants to generation from generation even thought
plenty of doubts are around that religion.
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Comments about the class
I am enrolling in this BA program in the modality of "Materias libres" and I have the
advantage to take any subject I want. This semester I chose Intercultural
Communication because sounded very interesting because I wanted to learn about the
considerations I have to take into account about people from different parts of the world.
Unfortunately, my expectations were not fulfilled, maybe because my expectations were
incorrect. However, in general terms, I liked the topic because it permitted me to know
about what the main implications that define the behaviors of a culture are. Now, I know
if I want to learn a specific culture or the behavior of a specific country, I should study
the concept related with that people about Intercultural Communication. Some
recommendations about your class are that please take into account that we learn in
different ways. That is important because we can learn with activities oriented to the
class or maybe investigating about the topic, doing a presentation or something like that.
Most of us the students have spatial intelligence and videos are good but shorter. I sure
you are going to take into account my recommendations and I will hope to see you next
semester.
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