cards!

When we played cards in class I was thinking what does this have to do with sociology?? I would have never thought that playing a card game could teach us about different cultures. Once we were in our groups and Sal gave us the directions I was like ok this should be pretty easy once Beth and Megan re-explained the rules to me. Once we got to playing our game it was pretty fun. Although once we had to play completely silently it was a little tough because when I finally won a game I said something out loud when I wasn't supposed to. Once we got used to playing in silence as a group the game went smoothly again which was good! We all had gotten really in to the game and then we were told that the winner at our table had to move to the table to the behind us and loser (s) had to move to the table in front of us. Then we ended up getting three new players at our table. None of them had said anything once we had started playing so I just assumed alright everyone's playing the same game as us, no big deal. But the other issue was they couldn't say anything to us because we had to play silently, so if they were confused on how to play our game they couldn't say it out loud. We didn't know this, we were just playing the way that our directions told us to. Once we stopped playing, someone in another group said "you gave every group different directions!" Everyone who came in to our group didn't fight us and our rules they just played along so we never assumed anything out of the ordinary. But I now see how that relates us to culture shock. The people who were moving around to different tables had no idea that we were given different directions until they came to our table. They all just played along and tried to catch on. They couldn't say to us that they played the game differently because we weren't allowed to talk.

This can relate to to culture because each time we go on vacation or get a job in another country we're going to have to adapt to their way of life. All around the world people do different things that we might find weird, but they might think that that what we do in our culture is weird too. This is how cards related to learning about culture in class.