In the beginning of the fourth class, we went through and revised our presentation materials for “The Dilemma of Northwest Land Company “in our own groups.
After that we had a discussion about simulation of dilemma concerning sexism in Africa. This dilemma was about a woman who was in Kenya for work. When she was there she felt that her clients treated her differently because of her gender. Her boss would say things like, “My lady” and “My cute assistant” in front of other local African clients.
The agenda of the discussion was to imagine that you are a woman in Africa and come up with ways to tackle the problem and discuss the downsides and upsides of your solutions. We were to find the best possible solution and present it in front of the class.
All the other groups did very well but our group didn't get to narrow down our ideas to just one so I don't think we succeeded. There were three people in our group and we didn't decide who was to be the minute taker and the chairperson so everyone just started firing away and no one summed up our ideas.
I would like to talk here more about the gender issues and sexism in my country, Nepal. Are there any problem like that in your country?
In our case, it was very intense. Most of the parents used to only send their sons to school and not their daughters. People thought that women would only be doing house work after getting married so they don't need any education. It'd just be waste of money and time.
As you can see, Nepal was a male predominance country. It was rare for any woman to be given high-ranking positions. Things have changed now and women are educated more but they are still treated differently from men.
As far as I know, this kind of discrimination is still around in many countries, even in highly developed countries.
After the simulation, we went through cultural topics. I already wrote about my culture and culture in general in my past blog articles but we got a chance to learn about terms like Mono Chronic Culture, Poly Chronic Culture, High Context Culture and Low Context Culture.
After that, we learned how to read graphs and data trends. We gave presentations using graphs one by one. Some of my classmates presented the number of hours they studied English per week and number of years they studied English in their lives.
In my turn, I presented the number of hours I spent playing games last week. I calculated the hours of playing chess, Frogger and Stunt Dirt Bike last week and made a line graph. I was a little bit nervous giving the presentation because I don't give presentations even at work. I think a lot of you also feel the same when giving presentation in front of people.
Giving presentations using graphs is a good way to convey information. We can use graphs in many fields like IT, Science , Medical, Agriculture, etc. I realized it is beneficial to learn to use and read graphs and data trends in Business.
Thanks!
