Cultural Diversity

“... affects the issues that members bring to a group and the ways in which they might be either ready or reluctant to explore these issues”.

-Corey, 2010

Confronting a Problem

East meets West by Yang Liu

 Yang Liu, a 35-year-old Chinese-German artist.  One of her projects, “East Meets West,” was first exhibited in Germany a few years ago and features pictographs representing the differences between Eastern and Western (specifically Chinese and German) cultures.

Sense of Self

Weekend Activities

How to Express Anger

Queue when Waiting

Status of a Leader

Punctuality

Cultural Diversity

Many Asian cultures and even African cultures promote interdependence rather than independence stressing reliance on the family and the individual’s community (Sapp cited in Sharf, 2008).

Cultural Diversity

Asians tend to show more respect to guiding authorities or mentors.

Asians tend to be more conforming, compliant and into social learning than their counterparts in Western Cultures (Chang, 2011).

References

Chang, L. et. al. (2011). Cultural Adaptations to environmental variability: an evolutionary account of east-west differences. Educational Psychology Review, volume 23, 1.

 Corey, M. (2010). Groups: process and practice, eighth

edition, USA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning. Corey, M. (2006). Groups: process and practice, seventh

edition, USA: Thomson Brooks/Cole. Gladding, S. (2008). Groups: a counseling specialty, fifth

edition, USA: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall. Sharf, R. (2008). Theories of psychotherapy and counseling,

concepts and cases, fourth edition, USA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.

Yang Liu slideshare

 

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