The 37th Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program in 2010

Discussion Program: Group Theme Information

Group Theme: 2. Cross-cultural Understanding Promotion
Facilitator: Mr. Nattavee Neil Mavichak (Thailand, SSEAYP2001)
Goal
Discuss on youth roles to develop and promote cross-cultural understanding, especially for the
unique multicultural community of ASEAN and Japan.
General Objectives
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PYs are able to exchange views and give a definition on cross-cultural understanding and its
effects to their societies

PYs understand the roles of micro-cultural and macro-cultural and able to identify key success
factors of cross-cultural understanding promotion

PYs to be able to create cross-cultural understanding promotion activities for SSEAYP 2010 as
well as their own community as post-programme activity

Activities
Objectives
Group

To Understand the

Discussion

importance of cross-

I
(November 7;

cultural understanding

Activities
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Presentation on pre-programme assignment 1 and 2

Cross-cultural

(CCU)

Understanding

Promotion

(C-CUP)

Activity; we are all minority of one another at all times

10:00 - 12:45)

Discuss on the importance of CCU and C-CUP

Discuss on how young people of ASEAN and Japan

can use their participations of social activities to
strengthen CCU in their societies.

Group

To understand the

Discussion

concept of micro-

corporate, and the government. Each group to discuss

II
(November 8;

cultural and macro-

and share their ideas on:-

cultural and their

Its roles and responsibilities to C-CUP

10:00 - 12:45)

linkage to CCU

Key success factors of C-CUP

Challenges and difficulties

Divide into 4 groups; the family, the community, the

The whole group to discuss and find the key success of

C-CUP

Group

To learn from the

Discussion

programmes or projects

III
(November 9;

from each country on C-

10:00 - 12:45)

CUP

Presentation of each contingent of pre-programme

assignment 3; programmes or projects on C-CUP

Divide into 3 groups (the government, the corporate or

business, and the community)

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Discuss about the execution-ideas and the effects of

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these implementations to the society.

Identify on the linkage between the execution ideas

and key-success factors (clarified from session II)

Group
Discussion
IV
(November 10;

To understand the roles

Divided into 3 groups that represent the 3 roles of

of micro-cultural and

communities.

macro-cultural that help

support C-CUP.

C-CUP

Family roles

Youth roles

Community roles

10:00 - 12:45)

Discuss on how these roles can help

Pre-programme reading, The Elephant in the Room

Discuss on what are the elephant effects?

Discuss on the differences of cultures and how to

make a better and greater understanding

Group
Discussion
V
(November 11;

To develop C-CUP

Pre-programme assignment 4

programme for SSEAYP

Discuss on the challenges of conducting a cross-cultural

2010

understanding promotion programme on-board, Fuji

Maru

10:00 - 12:45)

Searching for the challenges on-board

Propose a project that helps promote CCU

Group

To strengthened the

Discussion

understanding of C-

reviewing their experiences from institutional visits and

VI
(November 16;

CUP achieved from

homestay programmes

country programme in

Discuss from PYs own observations on CCU

14:15 17:00)

Malaysia

Discuss

Divided into 3 groups (family, society, and youth) and

Country programme

on

the

challenges

of

common

misunderstanding they found from the programme

and homestay

Discuss on what are the roles of youth, family and

society to solve these misunderstandings.

experiences
Roles of youth,
family and society

Project management

Development of a CCUP programme for

their day-to-day life

Pre-Programme Assignments
Individual Assignment
Pre-programme assignment 1
Each PY is requested to submit a total of 5 pictures (in both soft-file and imprinted version) under
the following directions;1. My dinner and my tableware
2. The way I greet my parents or elderly
3. The way I dress at my office or school/university
4. A hand sign to say okay or everything is alright
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5. Escalator queue at my favourite shopping mall (PY should be ensure to prevent any
invasion of privacy)
Please provide imprinted version of these 5 pictures in 4 inch x 6 inch size.
Pre-programme assignment 2
Each PY is requested to bring with them one local-fashion or lifestyle magazine of their countries.
Remark:- As this magazine will be used as part of material for discussion activities, please be
ensuring that the magazine is not a valuable one and be able to be cut or utilised in tear-sheet.

Contingent Assignments
Pre-programme assignment 3
Each contingent is requested to prepare a brief presentation (3-5 minutes) about 1 successful CCUP project from any of the following agencies;

the government

the corporate or business, and

the community

Pre-programme assignment 4
Each contingent is requested to write down a 10-list of the Dos and Donts for foreigners, in order
to interact with people in your country. Please explain with example (500 words maximum)
Pre-programme reading material
Contingent members are recommended to read and make good understanding on the attached
article, The Elephant in the Room prior of the commencement of group discussion 4.

Assignment Submission
Soft-copy/electronics submission
Individual

and

contingent

assignments

(1,

and

4)

will

be

submitted

through

neil.mavichak@gmail.com by October 24, 2010

Hard-copy/paper submission
Individual and contingent assignments and materials will be submitted to facilitator on November
3, 2010

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Pre-programme reading material:The Elephant in the Room, by Terry Kettering. Bereavement Magazine, Bereavement Publishing,
1989
Theres an elephant in the room.
It is large and squatting, so its hard to get around it.
Yet we squeeze by the How are you and Im fine,
And a thousand other forms of trivial chatter.
We talk about the weather.
We talk about work.
We talk about everything-except the elephant in the room.
Theres an elephant in the room.
We all know it is there.
We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
It is constantly on our minds.
For you see, it is a very big elephant.
It has hurt us all.
But we do not talk about the elephant in the room.
Oh please, say her name again.
Oh please, say Barbara again.
Oh please, lets talk about the elephant in the room.
For if we talk about her death.
Perhaps we can talk about her life?
Can I say Barbara to you and not have you look away?
For if I cannot, then you are leaving
Me
Alone
In a room
With an elephant

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