Showing posts with label cross-cultural psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cross-cultural psychology. Show all posts

Malaysia news: When the ultraman tries to outrun a tsunami


This is a news that had once become an argumentative international topic in 2011. I have known this news when my cross-cultural psychology lecturer discussed about it during the class just now.

Although it is just a simple drawing, it brings a very important message and deserves our ponder.

In the class, the lecturer asked us to take a few minutes to write out our sentiments and comments as well as applying what we have learned during the class of the day.
So, at this moment, when you have first seen this sketch, what is the sentence in your brain?

After that, few students volunteered to share their thoughts.
One student talked about stereotype.
The concept of his thought is roughly like "we always label that an ultraman must be very powerful. However, he cannot ever bear the tsunami."

Indeed, how long do we bring our stereotypes to live our life and it hints the negative impacts?
To form a bigger image, how can negligence of cross-cultural issues form conflict?

When we talk about cross-cultural, there should be keywords like "stereotype" and "diversity" following behind.