Everything you always wanted to know about culture | Saba Safdar | TEDxGuelphU
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Published 2012-12-30
Professor Safdar is the Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the University of Guelph where she and her students conduct research that lies broadly within the area of cross-cultural psychology. Her research primarily examines the wide range of factors that could help to understand adaptation processes of immigrants. She studies the influence of the psychological resilience of immigrants, of their beliefs and strategies, and of their ethnic and national identities on their adaptation in a new society. In addition to her research on immigration, she is interested in examining the academic, psychological, and social adaptation processes among international students. She currently studies the relation between the expression of identity and attitudes toward clothing (both ethnic and conventional fashion) among second generation immigrants in Canada.
All Comments (21)
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Pov: your prof made you watch this.
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OMG THIS IS MY PROF! She is a great prof
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Very interesting perspective ,and also helped me with my studies of intercultural approaches, Thanks to her .
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By far the best prof I have had at Guelph!
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Loved it! Thank you! Was brilliant!
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Great to hear this topic discussed.
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You give us good reason to explore diversity ... and to find the humour in it. Bravo.
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She was my prof many years ago and was amazing!!
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interesting video despite the title that suggests a broad representation of culture as opposed to cultural language.
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A worth seeing video. I liked it.
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hi..all..how can i see the subtitle..for this lectures.or the transelated one..i went to the ted talk web site and found nothing..thx
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The great TEDx about Culture...
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AMAZINGGGG
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Awesomeness
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Another interpretation of the cartoon is that he is saying to the others "who wants to celebrate MY breakthrough" when in fact everyone has been a part of that team. So the joke is that he is being so damn individualistic he has overlooked the contribution of the people who he's speaking to.
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I've noticed that there is a cultural difference regarding humor. Between the east coast and west coast of America. I recently moved to the west coast and my humor is considered offensive or they can't interpret it. While on the east or Midwest I get a laugh out of an individual even close to tears of joy.
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AMAZING
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This video serves as a great resource for the advanced language learning classroom for multiple reasons.
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Great presentation! And I have indeed received the joke on this presentation as being "everything..."! No wonder the spiritual healer who has transcended much of what is material would be reluctant carrying such a huge pizza! :) Anyway, your presentation sheds lights to my ongoing question about how a Canadian or American psychologist would avoid creating war in a migrant family when the psychologist's perception or interpretation of the migrant's cultural symbols yield incorrect responses in the consulting room....
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Interesting. How much of a part does governmental spending, specifically matching funds, and do such incentives work to change or support culture? Do the incentives stop at some point? I am reminded of farming and ranching subsidies, some of which are dependent on matching funding. As the main complaint with farmers or ranchers typically come from climatic setting and not weather (as the ag complaints closely resemble those of centuries or millennia past --- climate doesn't change and weather does), I suspect that governmental funding in this regard are in fact charities; many would or do claim otherwise. But those claims are old hat, too.
