Cultural Activity is my latest intervention to test if people can understand cultures better by finding similarities. I chose the participants on the street and invited them to join my intervention. Some people are willing to join my intervention but I also been refused by many people. When I reflected about it, I thought the way I asked questions should be improved. And this intervention may takes people a few minutes so I should chose people who looked not in rush.
My plan of this intervention was asking two participants who are from different countries and answer the cultural questions together. I asked people who are not from China to do this intervention with me. The first participant is from Bangladesh. Based on the five questions we answered, she found our cultures have similarities. The second group are participants from France and Spain. Before doing this intervention, one of them was not confident enough with his English and his cohort said this activity can also help them practice their English.
In addition, I did this intervention with two experts and they gave me some feedback about this. Both of them found this activity is fun but they had different thoughts about the differences and similarities of cultures. The first expert had an opinion that basic requirements of human being are the same and we should look beyond the culture. However, the second expert likes the difference of cultures because it’s interesting.
Based on the feedback from my stakeholders and experts, I found they are happy to do this activity with people from different backgrounds and it helped them to know more about others. I think this activity can remind people about the similarities of cultures but it is not deep enough to make people think beyond the culture.