Ex. 1. Answer the questions.

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TEXT 2. Read and discuss the texts.

Ex. 4. Discuss the questions in class.

If What does being a multiculturalist mean to you?

2. Which other qualities do you think a multiculturalist should have?

3. Would you describe yourself as a multicultural person? Why?

A British manager is talking about social customs. He is giving advice about three different countries to a group of his colleagues who are going abroad on business.

It's very important to know about the differences in culture between your country and the country you are goring to visit or you are working in. You can make mistakes and offend people if you don't know the customs.

Handshaking is the first example. In this country they shake hands much more than we do. So you mustn't forget to do that.

Another difference is that at work they use first names much less than we do here in Britain. So it's preferable to call people by their family names.

Food and wine take a very important place in this country, so at a business lunch never start discussing business immediately. That might seem like bad manners.

If you get an invitation to a person's home, take good chocolates, flowers, or a good 3ottle of cognac. Don't take wine: they drink it every day 1 if s too ordinary...

Second, you must be adaptable. To live successfully in another culture. particularly in one that is very different from your own, you have to adapt to differences: not only visible differences of food, climate, customs, but also to the invisible differences — the ways in which people of other cultures understand and interpret the world, and their different values.

Third, you need to be sensitive. That means being able to see things from the other person's point of view and being careful to avoid doing things that people of oilier culture might find strange or offensive, even if in your culture such things are quite OK.

Fourth, you need to be interested in other cultures, which is closely related to the three qualities mentioned above. A multiculturalist is a person who has a genuine interest in people of other cultures, who wants to learn their language, find out about their culture and its history, and develop a real understanding of their culture. Perhaps, it's this quality more than any other, which best describes a multicultural person.

1. What kind of person can be called a multiculturalist?

2. What does 'to be open-minded' mean?

3. What visible and invisible differences do people have to adapt living in another culture?

4. How does a sensitive person see the word?

5. Should a multicultural person be interested in other cultures?

6. How does a real multiculturalist demonstrate his interest in other cultures?