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Iii. Other-Reflection

The girl might have thought I was proud of being white or had a high degree of identification with my skin colour. I know that f.e. in India people are very careful not to expose their skin to the sun, because the ideal of beauty requires a very fair skin. I have heard similar things about East Asian countries. So maybe skin colour was very important to her.

III. Re-evaluate by critically reflecting with a Buddy

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I. Buddy Reflection

· Stars are fair generally

· Traditional fair is considered beautiful

· No representative example

· She was giving a very sincere compliment

Ii. Personal Learning

Wen´s statement that: `no matter what the other background was, she was giving me a very great and sincere compliment´ made me aware that I might be a little bit to focused on the frame than on the actual picture. I have to admit that I was so taken aback, that I retreated mostly from the conversation after the incident. When I met her again a couple of days ago I tried to make up for that, because she had tried not to be anything but nice to me, but I somehow had still ended up labelling her as “weird” or at least as “unfamiliar with Western Culture” in my head.

Appendix 2. Intercultural Learning Journal (ILJ) – case 2

I. Report

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I. The Setting

Classroom, discussion of a group project for one of the modules

ii. Who was involved?

3 Chinese teammembers, one Carribian college and me, the researcher

iii. What happened?

I used more than one exclamation and question mark while commenting on a draft project. As a result, Chinese teammates blamed me for shouting on them in paper and pointing out their low writing skills.

Iv. Reaction

I was frustrated because I did not want to offend anybody and tried to be friendly demonstrating my unofficial communication style.

II. Reflect

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I. Self-Explanation

According to my BA monocultural team work experience, it was normal for my Russian university culture to write messages in any form (including smiles, many question or exclamation marks etc.).

Ii. Self-Reflection

I did not take into consideration the importance of writing in an official style among classmates, so that overestimated the level of trust and understanding in our MSc team and behaved according to my BA experience.

Iii. Other-Reflection

More than one question or exclamation mark is unacceptable in Chinese tradition of writing and means disrespect.

III. Re-evaluate by critically reflecting with a Buddy

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