The Intercultural Experience Assignment: ICE 2

For ICE 2 , you may select either one of the following options:

• Spend at least an hour in conversation with someone who is culturally very different from you and belongs to a culture with which you are unfamiliar. This may, for example, be someone who practices a religion which is different from yours, or someone whose sexual orientation is different from yours, or someone who comes from a part of the world you have never visited. It any case, it should be someone new to you, someone with whom you haven’t previously engaged in conversation.

• Have lunch or dinner — either alone or with one friend or family member or classmate — at a restaurant which serves a cuisine you haven’t tried before. Make sure that your server actually comes from the country or region whose food the restaurant offers. (If there isn’t such a server working when you arrive, then you won’t be able to use this option.) Tell the server that you’re doing a homework assignment which asks you to have an intercultural experience, and ask her or him to bring you a meal which will give you an authentic sense of the country’s cuisine and to talk with you about the food and the culture from which it originates. (Since you’ll be asking your server .

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