Sunday, November 22, 2009

Orange vs. Apple


A couple of days ago, my classmates and I were separated into two groups and had to be formed into two countries, Orange and Apple. Each country had to have a game, a language, and a have to have a word that you would say when you did not have anything else to say, and way more. And after that we would have to observe the similarities, and differences,and to learn how to play they're game,how to speak they're language which is the Apple culture.

The things that the countries Orange and Apple have in common is that they both have games that include cards, they both use only one word in each sentence, and they both had a words when they did not have anything to say which is ''WHOOP."

The Differences between the countries Orange and Apple are that Orange is more of a serious country and Apple is not, Apple is more of a physical country and Orange doesn't really liked to be touched. Another difference is that Orange is more serious than Apple,they also like to win, and that is the only time they are allowed to be happy. When Orange plays the game only men could confront women to play they're game, and women cannot play the game with other women, but men could play with other men.

What I have learned from that day,during that experience was that it was very hard to communicate back then because now we have translators, and that it is hard for other people from other cultures to adjust to new cultures for example homestay students they come here from their native lands and learn and observe our language, art, basically our culture, like what we did in the culture game.

When I first knew that we were gonna do a culture game I thought we were going to compete against each other, but really it was all about coming together, and learning how to learn each others culture.