One of the most important topic to be looking out for even in the future, 10 years down the road.
As accessibility is getting better each day and traveling around the world for business and leisure purposes increases, there is a need for us to understand what are the dos and don'ts for the varies nationality.
For my project group, we were given the country: Africa. When we were given that, we are totally shock as we believe that is not much learning point from it but we were wrong. Like not having females to dine in the same table as the male and them having the Muslim religion. It was a great learning experience for me.
I remember while doing the project individually at my own timing, i met this South African student who was here for a scholarship at SMU. I then greeted them in their language and they are certainly happy that i know their language and was trying to find out more about it. He gave me some words of encouragement and wish me all the best for my project. =)
The learning of this topic was taking effectively as each group was given different country to work on and from the presentation, the class was able to compare and contrast the other country's etiquette.
The following video is just a little teaser of me using a china assent to 'irritate' Sharlene's group on china etiquette before the presentation.
The lecture for this topic could be made more interesting by having guest speakers from oversea or interns who have been working with clients from all over the world before. In that way, we would be able to learn and understand from their prospective.
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