Date/Time: October 5th, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
Location: CIES Student Lounge
Topic/Skill: Critical incidents
Today we talked about critical incidents which she has experienced since coming to America. If I understood the reading correctly, a critical incident is one in which a student's culture and her host culture conflict with each other. I haven't personally experienced this sort of incident with any of the languages I'm learning, but she has! Unfortunately, it had negative outcomes. She told me about the different way dogs are treated in American culture versus Korean culture. Dogs in America are often treated like family, whereas they are mostly just pets in Korea. She told me about a critical incident involving this contradiction in which her neighbor treated their dog like family and let it do whatever it wanted (including pooping on her lawn and barking at them at night). She asked the landlord to build a fence to keep the dog in, but the landlord asked her neighbor to keep their dog under control instead. From then on, her neighbor was not friendly toward her at all.
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