Polish Culture
Polish culture places its value on family ties. The strongest bond emanates from the close ties that grown right from inception into adulthood. The polish people value family as the tightest bond. The view makes them somehow rigid when it comes to accepting other cultures into part of their system. Cultural heritage is a big deal for polish people. They pride in affiliating themselves with their origin of descent. Accepting other cultures is a strong hurdle, but with the world becoming a global community, the polish people are fast adapting to the intercultural interaction with others with people from other communities.
The Intercultural event has played a significant role in showing how various backgrounds restrict individuals from accepting to interact with other cultures without casting a judging eye in the interaction. As a member of polish descent, I have discovered that our culture is fast to judge different cultures due to the strong ties we uphold based on our origin. Then training has, however, helped to highlight the fundamental flaws that prevent us from allowing the interaction with other communities. After all, we are all human beings cut from the same cloth.
The event has exposed the cats we doubt on others simply because we cannot trace a relationship]p root that links us both with regards to the origin. The event has helped me have a broader understanding of how we, as a human race, are all related. We are all alike despite our cultural differences because we belong to the same race. We are all joined in the hip because we arose from one ancestral root that grew into the diverse cultures that we strongly cherish today.
Highlighting how we can have different backgrounds and still interact without looking down on each culture’s value can help us coexist together as acquaintances have reinvigorated my spirit of accepting others for who they are and what they believe in. The analysis has helped resolve the problem of seeing other cultures as a problem for our polish culture. Keeping an open mindset that supports a broader view of knowing we are from the same race (a human likeness) is a crucial aspect that enables one to appreciate other cultures for their unique traits. It creates an open mindset as opposed to having a subjective mind that is hell-bent on judging others without taking time to understand them.
Having cultural events that display the unique characteristics that other cultures hold dear will create a platform for other cultures to witness and appreciate the cultures. The events serve as an ideal platform for others to evaluate other cultures. The evaluation will allow other cultures to accept others the way they are just like they would want to be respected for the traits and values they hold as a result of their cultures. The event has fostered a spirit of accommodation when it comes to the interaction of different cultures.
The strategies ton I recommend for future events to integrate is the creation of a platform that will allow cultures to display their cultures. Creating a platform will help educate others on the values, beliefs, and traits that other cultures allow, thereby making it easy for them to interact without raising eyebrows when they see certain traits getting displayed by different cultures in social interactions. The second strategy to recommend is to have the organizers create an interactive session where different cultures can get an opportunity to ask questions about their cultures that the vent did not permit in its official program.
The change that could get introduced in the event is the coupling of different cultures together for group work activities. For example, in the blind obstacle course, getting different representatives from different cultures to form one group will help foster a formidable communication strategy that will ease the interaction of different cultures. Getting them to work together from the onset of the event will enable them to appreciate each other more. It will help them see that they are more alike and that the differences make them even stronger as opposed to having them working from different teams. Fostering unity, despite the cultural difference, is key. We all came from one origin; our difference should make us stronger instead of tearing us apart.