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Choose three of the clips listed below for viewing. Using the Discussion Board Rubric listed below as a guide, develop a well-thought-out original response by defending the value of cultural competence in the workforce and in the community. Next, identify practices that maximize the abilities of all employees/groups to meet organizational goals. Please identify the scene(s) you are referencing and support your views with an outside reference or source.
North Country: Take It Like a Man
North Country: Learn the Rules
Outsourced: Todd’s First Day
Outsourced: Todd’s Second Day
Outsourced: Phone Sales
Philadelphia: Essence of Discrimination
Philadelphia: Case About Homosexuality
Part 2 of 2:
From NPR:
“So you’re at work one day and you’re talking to your colleagues in that professional, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that people use when they’re doing professional work stuff. Your mom or your friend or your partner calls on the phone and you answer. And without thinking, you start talking to them in an entirely different voice — still distinctly your voice, but a certain kind of your voice less suited for the office. You drop the g’s at the end of your verbs. Your previously undetectable accent — your easy Southern drawl or your sing-songy Caribbean lilt or your Spanish-inflected vowels or your New Yawker — is suddenly turned way, way up. You rush your mom or whomever off the phone in some less formal syntax (“Yo, I’mma holler at you later”), hang up and get back to work.Then you look up and you see your co-workers looking at you and wondering who the hell you’d morphed into for the last few minutes. That right there? That’s what it means to code-switch”.
Review the two video clips listed below. Write a summary of what you read and how it applies to the video clips, also addressing the following questions:
Do you code switch?
What do you gain from it?
Think about how you react to people who speak the way Idris speaks on the basketball court.
Contrast that with the way you react to people who speak the way Idris speaks off the court.
What assumptions do you make about people based on the way they speak?
Do a search on the Internet for videos that illustrate “code switching” and share the ones you found most interesting.
Video Clip #1: American Promise – Trailer
Video Clip #2: American Promise, Idris Code Switches
Answers should be thoughtful and should include terminology and concepts referenced in the text. Your answer should be approximately 250 – 500 words in length. Use the text, resources provided, and outside sources to support your reasoning. Cite any sources used in APA format. Respond to at least 2 classmates by the end of the week. These responses should be 100-150 words minimum in length and should add to the conversation. Posts that say nothing other than “Good post” or “I agree” will not earn points.