Clash! How to Thrive in the Multicultural World

Date: Monday 25 April 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Hazel Markus
Discussants: Professor Chandran Kukathas, Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
Chair: Dr Caroline Howarth

As the world gets smaller, people with different cultural backgrounds are colliding more than ever before. Drawing on studies from across the social sciences, this approach explains not only how the independence-interdependence divide can ignite conflict and also how we can harness these culture clashes for good.

Hazel Markus is Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.

Chandran Kukathas holds the Chair in Political Theory and is Head of the Department of Government at the London School of Economics.

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington is an Assistant Professor in the Social Psychology Department at the LSE. Her research focuses on the psychology of power, socioeconomic status, and intergroup relations.

Caroline Howarth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Psychology, LSE. Dr Howarth's research focusses on the social psychology of intercultural relations, exclusion and belonging. She has examined the ways in which social institutions (such as schools) help or hinder the development of constructive approaches to diversity. She has written extensively on these issues and is co-editor for Political Psychology.

[nadiashireensiddiqi]

This reminds me of that TED talk on MBA students how men are more likely to speak up and women not so much. Play on fake it until you make it; 'Fake it 'til you are it.' or something.
Interdependent self (we) vs. independent self (me)
Herbert Mead

8 cultural clashes: indep interdependent
Region East and west coast South and midwest
Religion
Workplace
Global Region Global north Global South

85% of the world is not weird.

Well I went with spouse, but the reason was that I would have a greater dependency(emotional &financial) on the spouse than on the mother, who is older and should probabilistically naturally die sooner. But I think Women (esp. those younger than their spouse) are more likely to save the spouse and men are more likely to save the mother.
2/3rds of the students here did too.

Green pen because 'yellow yellow dirty fellow'

I think with the rise of entrepreneurship in India and China, I would say Asians from countries thriving in Capitalism are more likely to be in her 'west' category.
Whereas The PIIGS or Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain are all European countries that are more likely to be interdependent/socialist as opposed to France, Germany and The UK which have thrived via Capitalism .

Very Marxist : Dialectical Materialism = Proletariat vs. Bourgeosie = Dependency Theory (World Systems).
Human Agency vs. Ideology
Freud I.D, Ego
Talcott Parsons' four divisions.


Dynamic system, but Culture merged; the globalization argument?

I think China changed with the economic boom.

[RubenLoisir]

Nice the video repeat itself at 35:00 …

[thureinlwin]

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