INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE - GROUP A

FOOD

ROUTINES

CELEBRATIONS

LANGUAGE

PRACTICES

Where would she put a new kitchen in her cramped apartment anyway? No hookups for a washer, no space for a two-door refrigerator.

The big mouth game show host was kissing and hugging a woman playing on the left-hand team. Her husband and children were right there with her, and still he encircled her with his arms.

Now the team on the right were hugging each other, squealing, jumping up and down. They had just won a whole new kitchen - refrigerator, dishwasher, clothes washer, microwave, everything!

CULTURE

POLITICAL FIGURES

HOME

CONSTRUCTION

EMPLOYMENT

She didn’t know if it was a good omen or a bad one, the two Indian women on the subway. They could have been sitting on the dusty ground at the market in San ___, selling corn or clay pots, with the bright-coloured striped shawls and full skirts, (...). They were exactly as they must have been back home, but she was seeing them here…

She panicked when they got to the big school by the river. “Like the United Nations,” she said, seeing so much glass and brick, an endless esplanade of concrete.

“Maria Perez grew up in the countryside of Guatemala, the oldest daughter in a family of 19 children,” read the Mayor as Maria stood quaking by his side. She noticed he made a slight wheezing noise when he breathed between words. 

ROOTED IN ONE PLACE

TRAVEL

HOME

PERMANENCE

BORDER

“It says here 19 children. What was it like growing up in a house with 19 children? How many bathrooms did you have?

Carmen’s eyes met Maria’s; Carmen waved. Maria beamed out at her. For a moment she felt like she belonged there, in this crowd.

“But big house, money, rich like that, bad in China,” said Fu Wu. “Those year, Government bad to you. how they let him?” “In my country,” said Carlos, “government bad to you if you got small house, no money.”