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Module 1
Seeing Culture (Including Your Own)
What culture is, why most of it is invisible, and how to catch your own snap judgments.
Before we can understand anyone else’s culture, we need to notice that we have one. That’s harder than it sounds. Most of what our culture taught us, we learned before we could talk, so it doesn’t feel like “culture” at all. It feels like common sense.
In this module, you’ll:
- discover why most of culture is invisible, like the hidden part of an iceberg
- explore the many cultures that live inside each one of us
- learn to tell a useful generalization from a harmful stereotype
- catch the quick stories our minds tell about other people
- practice a simple three-step habit that you’ll use for the rest of the course
Everything else in the course builds on this module, so if you’re short on time, Lessons 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5 are the ones not to skip.