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A Selection of Recommended Videos Families in Global Transitions is pleased to recommend a selection of videos pertaining to families in global transition. They are categorized for your reference into the following five general areas: 1) Intercultural Communication, 2) Transitions and Re-entry, 3) Third Culture Kids/Global Nomads, 4) Spouses/Partners, and 5) Education and Counseling. Web and/or email links are provided to the producer or publisher so that you may get more information, including rental options (not always available) and purchasing details. Intercultural Communication Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication
Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org
Date: early 1990's Length: 33 minutes Dr. Milton Bennett presents his classic lecture on nonverbal communication, speaking specifically about tone of voice, body language, eye language, space language, and touch language. Examples demonstrate what can happen when people on different points on each continuum interact with one another. Focus is on increasing perceptual acuity so as to be able to more effectively learn through observation when in a new cultural context. Empathy and Sympathy: Overcome the Golden Rule
Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org Date: 1991 Length: 40 minutes
Dr. Milton Bennett presents the goal of communication as being to both understand and be understood. Leads the viewer through the assumption of cultural similarity, which underlies the "golden rule", and why the consequent communication strategy of sympathy fails. Uses the Iranian hostage crisis of the late 80's and other global political examples to illustrate. Suggests the more effective "platinum rule", based on the assumption of cultural difference and calling for the communication strategy of empathy. International Business Practices: Hidden Dimensions
Intercultural Resource Corporation http://irc-international.com
Date: 1997 Length: 28 minutes Edward T. Hall, considered the founder of the modern intercultural communication field, introduces the basic principles of culture. Using international business negotiation case studies, he talks about cultural differences in such areas as information flow, high and low context, space, time, and more. The Multicultural Workplace
Intercultural Resource Corporation http://irc-international.com
Date: 1990 Length: approx 30 minutes Scenarios portraying the role of cultural difference in the workplace are enacted, emphasizing styles of communication and presentation and styles of workforce relationships. Each scenario is followed by cultural analysis. (The tape has a degree of static on both the sound and image.) While focuses on the U.S. workplace, ideas and insights are applicable in international contexts as well Pernicious Dualism
Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org
Date: 1996 Length: 70 minutes Dr. L. Lee Knefelkamp presents the keynote for the Psychology of Bigotry conference in which she discusses the characteristics and consequences of dualistic (right/wrong, either/or, yes/no) thinking. Contrasts na�ve dualism and pernicious dualism, and then both of these with diversity and the dialogic process required by a democratic and multicultural society. Makes parallels between the multicultural self and the multicultural society. Includes a ten-minute introduction to the conference and to Knefelkamp by Dr. Milton Bennett. Transitions and Re-entry Cold Water
Intercultural Press http://interculturalpress.com/shop/index.html
Date: 1986 Length: 50 minutes An exploration by Noriko Ogami of culture shock (the 'cold water' of the title) based on the insights and anecdotes of thirteen international students at Boston University and select professionals in the intercultural field. Focuses on differing value systems and the behavioral mis-connects that result. Excellent both for expatriates to the US, and for Americans repatriating after a long sojourn abroad. Coming Home
Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org
Date: 1985 Length: 45 minutes Excerpts of a one-day conference during which Drs. Milton and Janet Bennett discuss the dynamics and 'good news/bad news' of re-entry. Included are small group reports from American high school study-abroad students assessing how best to apply the insights and strategies to their own repatriation. A Conversation About Re-entry
Transition Dynamics www.transition-dynamics.com
Date: 1994 Length: 20 minutes Four young-adult US American and Canadian global nomads discuss their repatriation to the U.S. for university. They respond to four questions: (1) What did you expect you re-entry to be like? (2) What was it actually like? 3) What was your biggest avoidable mistake? (4) What helped you make your re-entry a success? In doing so, they cover the range of the re-entry literature and offer practical, powerful suggestions for a successful repatriation. A Good Return
Global Film Network http://globalfilmnetwork.net/films.html
Date: 2000 Length: 28 minutes A highlight of the key repatriation issues facing the American business person and family, as told through interviews with returnees and with repatriation experts. Addresses what employers can do to better handle this transition, and what repatriates feel they gained from the overseas experience. Saying Goodbye Forever
Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org
Date: 1992 Length: approx 20 minutes An ABC (American Broadcasting Corporation) 20/20 report on the Dougy Center, a grief-counseling center in which children help children grieve the death of a parent. Advice and strategies are easily transferable to other significant losses, such as those incurred through international relocations. Third Culture Kids/Global Nomads Global Nomads: Cultural Bridges for the Future
Cornell University
Date: 2001 Length: 40 minutes
Global nomad students from six American colleges and universities, of diverse nationalities and worldwide host countries, share experiences and insights about their internationally mobile lifestyles. Video topics include cultural identity, benefits and challenges of being a global nomad, courses of action for various audiences, and global nomads as cultural bridges.
Time To Grow: Introduction to Pre-School in Three Cultures
Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org
Date: 1989 Length: 30 minutes Presents theories of developmental psychology in infants, beginning with and building from Piaget�s work in cognitive and perceptual development. Suggests impacts of time, place, and context on how infants begin to understand the way the world works. Provides context for considerations of how international mobility may impact infant development. Pre-School in Three Cultures
Length: 45 minutes
A comparative look at preschool in Japan, China, and the US (Hawaii). Offers preliminary discussion of intercultural implications. Sets context for discussion of "third culture" implications: what may happen to/for a student who attends school in two or more of such culturally distinct systems? Spouses/Partners A Portable Life
McGill University
Date: early 1980's Length: 30 minutes Dr. Nancy Adler interviews four Canadian-based women of diverse nationalities as they discuss their lives as internationally mobile expatriate spouses. They speak to the challenges they experienced, their ways of adapting, and the ways in which they created a meaningful portable life. This is one of the earliest explorations of the expatriate spouse experience. Chapter 9 of Dr. Adler�s book, International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (4th edition, Cincinnati, Ohio: South Western Publishing, 2003) accompanies the video and includes additional lifestyles (such as dual career) and cases. The book is available most easily through Amazon.com www.amazon.com Education and Counseling Barriers to Effective Multicultural Counseling Intercultural Communication Institute sandrag@intercultural.org
Date: 1989 Length: approx 60 minutes Clinical psychologist Derald Wing Su discusses the barriers to effective cross-cultural counseling and what counselors and others in the helping professions can do to overcome these barriers. Focusing on the U.S. context, presents 'generic' characteristics of counseling whose values often conflict with client values in cross-cultural therapeutic relationships. A Different Place: The Intercultural Classroom (Part I)
Intercultural Resource Corporation http://irc-international.com
Date: early 1990's Length: 20 minutes Presents a scenario in which a professor in a U.S. university context attempts to facilitate discussion among members of a multinational and multicultural class. Disaster ensues. The professor and students each then summarize their experiences and perspectives. A Different Place: The Intercultural Classroom (Part II � Creating Community)
Intercultural Resource Corporation http://irc-international.com
Date: 1993 Length: 15 minutes Returning to the scenario in Part I of this two-part video series, intercultural analysts explore ways to create community through understanding the cultural basis of the conflicts. They specifically address cultural variables, cultural communication styles, and cultural learning styles.
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