Lenore's Business ~ Los asuntos de Lenore

A lot of times, I will go to the sink while someone is washing dishes, and collect water for a pot and not say, "excuse me," But for some members of the household they find it offensive to jump in front of someone. I, personally, don't mind it at all. This is because our personal space concepts are very different. My 13 year old daughter doesn't like hugs, kisses or anything. I do not know how to correct this to help ehr feel more comfortable. She is leaning towards being an introvert and doesn't like it when we ask her to speak up, or if we tell her she is shy, even though it is true! So now you see that in each family there can be many different styles and names of types of personalities and spaces. “...personal territory can expand or contract depending on the local circumstances.”    The idea of personal space can vary in each individual based on their own surroundings. When I came to Bolivia to some parties, I noticed if you came too early to an event, there

Do you know what attributional tendencies are? Photo curtosy of www.clubstreetpost.com  Fritz Heider was the first person to describe how people make attributions. Explanations of behavior and events can be categorized as internal or external attributions.  There could be two types we can analyze. Internal Attributions ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings. Internal attributions could be when we give the credit to ourselves for something. This reminds me of the phrase, “pat yourself on the back.” kind of thinking. External Attributions ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands, and environmental constraint. This is when we give other people credit for something that occurs. Any variation in stability in these two types would likely be based on the idea of “luck”, competition, and/or ability. For example, instead of giving myself credit for still being married after 17 years, I could say, “Wow, we really got lucky that I fou

  Individualismo versus colectivismo ¿Disfruta siendo usted mismo y haciendo lo suyo? Puede ser de una sociedad individualista. La consulta siempre se busca en una sociedad colectiva. La camaradería provoca la necesidad de enfatizar el cuidado porque serás más responsable del grupo que estás representando. Es posible que se necesiten servicios y apoyos si descubrimos que alguien necesita ayuda al cambiar de un tipo de vida social a otro dentro del salón de clases de inglés. El sitio web de NCSET compartió una cita de otro fuente: Trumbull et al. (2001) dice "Observe que es importante que el personal comprenda las diferencias básicas entre individualismo y colectivismo porque estas dos orientaciones guían guiones de desarrollo bastante diferentes para los niños y para la escolarización; y los conflictos entre ellos se reflejan a diario en las aulas de EE. UU. Una mayor conciencia de cómo moldean las metas y los comportamientos puede permitir que los maestros y los padres interprete

Individualism vs. Collectivism Do you enjoy being yourself and doing your own thing?  You may be from an individualist society. Consultation is always sought in a collective society. Comradery causes the need to emphasize care because you will be more responsible for the group you are representing. services and supports may be needed if we find someone needs assistance when changing from one type of social life to another inside of the English language classroom. The NCSET website shared, “As Trumbull et al. (2001) note, it is important for personnel to understand the basic differences between individualism and collectivism because these two orientations guide rather different developmental scripts for children and for schooling; and conflicts between them are reflected daily in U.S. classrooms. Keener awareness of how they shape goals and behaviors can enable teachers and parents to interpret each other’s expectations better and work together more harmoniously on behalf of students (p

25 de mayo de 2021 (de mi árbol genealógico de Familysearch.org).      ¿De dónde eres? Esa es una pregunta que también me resulta difícil de responder. Vivo en Tarija Boliva. Nacido en Charleston, Carolina del Sur, EE. UU. La habilidad de comprender otras culturas puede ser más fácil para personas como yo, que descienden de muchos países. También me he mudado mucho dentro de los EE. UU. Algunas personas no podrán darse cuenta de muchas cosas que yo puedo realizar debido a muchos antecedentes y experiencia. Podemos tener una mejor comprensión del mundo por tener toda esta rica herencia y exposición durante nuestra experiencia de vida también. Entonces pregunto de nuevo, ¿de dónde eres?     Cuando llegué a Bolivia en mi primer viaje cuando tenía 17 años, recuerdo ir a mercados muy grandes con mi hermano y sonreír mucho a todos los que veía. Mi hermano vio cómo sonreía y observó cómo algunos hombres me miraban. Después me dijo: “¡Lenore! ¡Dejar de sonreír!" Creo que este es un buen e

    (from my Familysearch.org family tree.) Where are you from?  That is a question that is also difficult for me to answer. I live in Tarija Boliva. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The skill of understanding other cultures may be easier for people like me who descend from many countries. I have also moved so much inside of the USA. Some people will not be able to realize a lot of things I can realize because of many backgrounds and experience. We can have a better understanding of the world for having all of this rich heritage and exposure during out life experience as well.  So I ask again, where are YOU from?       When I came to Bolivia on my first trip as a 17-year-old, I remember going to very large markets with my brother and smiling so big at everyone I saw. My brother saw how I was smiling and he observed how some men were looking at me. Afterwards he told me, “Lenore! Stop smiling!” I think that this is a good example of how differences work for emotional expressivit

 5/22/2021 K. Lenore Rivera W05 Blog: Falta de comunicación cultural      Todos debemos tener cuidado con los juicios y las suposiciones. Esto ayudará a reducir o evitar por completo la falta de comunicación cultural. Cuando vivía en una escuela de posgrado internacional en Knoxville, TN, EE. UU., Teníamos un buen amigo de China que era miembro de nuestra iglesia. Fuimos a su residencia para darle un "pastel" de cumpleaños una vez porque sabía que su cumpleaños era el día anterior al mío. Este pastel era solo una delicia crujiente de arroz gigante en forma de corazón. Le pusimos una vela, le cantamos feliz cumpleaños y lo hicimos soplar. Estaba TAN sorprendido. Nos dijo que nunca antes había celebrado su cumpleaños de esa manera. Le dije. "Probablemente ya hayas comido algo como esto antes". Supuse que había comido arroz crujiente antes, ya que está hecho de arroz y es de China, donde sé que comen arroz. Me dijo que nunca antes había visto un postre como ese. Doble

K. Lenore Rivera W05 Blog: Culture Miscommunication We should all be careful with judgements and assumptions. This will aid in reducing or avoiding cultural miscommunication completely. When I was living in international grad school housing in Knoxville, TN, USA we had a good friend from China who was a member of the church. We went to his residence to give him a birthday "cake" once because I knew his birthday was the day before mine. This cake was just a giant rice crispy treat in a heart shape. We put a candle in it, sang him happy birthday, and made him blow it out. He was SO surprised. He told us that he had never really celebrated his birthday before like that. I told him. "You probably already have eaten something like this before."  I assumed he had eaten rice crispy treat before since it is made of rice and he is from China where I know they eat rice. He told me he had never seen a dessert like that ever before.  Double shocker for me. I made the false assu

                ¿Has oído hablar de policrónicos y monocrónicos? La cultura monocrónica programa un evento a la vez de manera ordenada. En la cultura policrónica, los empleados pueden trabajar en varias tareas simultáneamente. Los individuos policrónicos prosperan al realizar más de una tarea al mismo tiempo, siempre que puedan ejecutarse junto con un ritmo natural. (Según https://vplegacies.com/) Esto significa que si estás en un área donde hay una sociedad policrónica, ¡necesitarás hacer conexiones, hacer amigos y establecer contactos aún más! Hall dice que "los forasteros que residen en [áreas policrónicas] encuentran las burocracias inusualmente engorrosas e insensibles". En las sociedades policrónicas debes encontrar un amigo que te ayude a conseguir conexiones. El procedimiento es realmente importante en los Estados Unidos. ¿Cómo se aplica esto a la educación y los sistemas escolares? Si vienes de la sociedad contraria, sufrirás si no entiendes estas diferencias y las t

                Have you heard of polychronic and monochronic concepts of time? The monochronic culture schedules one event at a time in an orderly fashion. In the polychronic culture, employees can work on several tasks simultaneously. Polychronic individuals thrive on carrying out more than one task at the same time as long as they can be executed together with a natural rhythm. (According to https://vplegacies.com/)   This means that if you are in an area where it is a polychronic society, you will need to make connections, make friends, and network even more! Hall says that “Outsiders residing in [polychronic areas] find the bureaucracies unusually cumbersome and unresponsive.” In polychronic societies you must find a friend to help you get connections. Procedure is really important in the United States. How does this apply to education and school systems?  If you come from the opposite society, you will suffer if you do not understand these differences and the techniques to follow

 "Nos conoceremos o nos exterminaremos" es la cita que dijo Carlos Fuentes, intelectual latinoamericano. Hay un video genial en línea llamado Diferencias culturales National Geographic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0kzF4A-WQ Aquí está el enlace. Si lo piensa bien, es posible que muchas personas en muchos países no sepan qué es una dona. Algunas de las cosas más simples que ves todos los días pueden ser totalmente nuevas y fascinantes para personas de otros países. Debemos enfrentar a los turistas o nuevos inmigrantes con el mayor respeto y retener el juicio. La educación puede ser un mar de problemas que hace que los profesores se obliguen a hacer que todo sea interesante. Según el profesor Ivers, después de cada período de clase, "estarás una hora más cerca de la muerte". Es nuestra responsabilidad como maestros hacer que ese tiempo de clase sea agradable. Nuestra interpretación de cierto término. Por ejemplo, si te dijera que comer delante de un hombre va a s

We shall know eachother or we shall exterminate eachother.” by Carlos Fuentes, a Latin American intelectual. There is a cool video online called Cultural Differences National Geographic   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0kzF4A-WQ Here is the link. If you think about it, many people in many countries may not know what a donut is.  Some of the most simple things you see everyday could be totally new and fascinating to people from other countries. We must confront tourists or new immigrants with the utmost respect and withhold judgement. Education may be a sea of boardome that makes teachers force themselves to make everything interesting. According to Professor Ivers, after every class period, “You will be one more hour closer to death.” It is our responsibility as teachers to make that class time enjoyable.  Our interpretation of a certain term. For example, if I told you that eating in front of a man is going to be illegal and deserve the death penalty you would think I am crazy, ri

This blog is going to go a little different in direction since prior posts were more focused on business. Now we are headed toward the area of pedagogy, more specifically, TESOL.  Here is a clip of my cool vocabulary expansion gradient scale lesson on fast and slow movement words from my (now I think boring) ONLY ZOOM virtual classes. Before seeing the list below, I thought Zoom was enough, and great. Now I re-consider. You too can turn your shabby Zoom chic! I teach English everyday. I have about 5 different groups or individuals total. That is all I really need. I have my own business since 2019 but I have been teaching English since 2004. You can see the business here at www.tramitesytraducciones.com It doesn’t make much but I can help pay bills and food! It is so important to be able to do this, but it is so hard to juggle with this semester. It is the hardest semester of my life.  I think I have too many classes for my life situation so I ask for prayers. My kids, for example, tu