Multicultural parishes and PFG

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Multicultural parishes and PFGs
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• What is your family culture?
• where are your from?
• what do you do differently from others?
• what and how do you eat?
• is anyone in the family from another culture?
• (racial, religious etc)
• What do you appreciate about a culture other than
  your own?
• What puzzles you about aspects of another?

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Multicultural parishes PFGs
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Eating out Eastern Western culture
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Contacts
Context in communication
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Showing anger
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Waiting to line up
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Sunday on the streets
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Importance of authority figures
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Travelling
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Punctuality
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Way of life
Individualistic
Collective
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Three meals a day
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The place of the child
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Noise levels in a restaurant
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Moods and weather
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Expressing an opinion
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Dealing with problems
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The elderly in day-to-day life
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A party
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Transportation
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3 contrasting dimensions of cultural difference
Low distance of authority High distance of authority
Individualistic cultures Collectivie cultures
Low-context communication High-context communication
Icons used were designed by Liu Young
Western Eastern
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Culture
Culture is like a skin or a language it
transmits meaning (values, customs,
etc) Sub-cultures exist (e.g. Collingwood/AFL is
different from Storm/NRL) but both football
Like skin, if it is stripped away, a community
is injured or killed
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Culture
We need to know and understand the inner
history of our own culture the cultures we are
involved with Some cultures regard themselves as
superior to others (rock and an egg experience)
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Culture
Catholic and Protestant cultures Superior
attitudes can ignore the sacredness of
culture We are rediscovering the sense of
connectedness that most ancient cultures had
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Boundaries Inside Outside
Every culture creates boundaries that divide,
classify and rank Supporters maintain the
boundaries Some individuals cross the boundaries
or outsiders challenge them
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• OUTSIDERS
• Strangers, Vulnerable,
• Learners
• Accept unimportant roles
• (Servants)
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• Not committed
• Tourists, visitors, opportunists,
• short termers, invaders
• (Nuisances)

• INSIDERS
• Those in authority,
• with appointed roles or with influence
• (Big shots)
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• Have limited power
• Nobodies, children,
• Deviants (criminals etc)
• Maginalised (sex, language, etc)
• (Insignificant)

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Religious culture
Our religious culture has very clear
outsiders Jesus showed true inclusion by
bringing in the outsiders Mark 1 40-45
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Religious culture
Jesus challenged insider participants to
encounter and welcome the marginalised
outsiders Who are insiders and outsiders in a)
the wider church b) your parish c) your PFG?
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Make-up of a parish or a PFG
1990 The parish is 80 British/Celtic
10 European 10 Asian 2000 The parish is 60
British/Celtic 10 European 15
Asian 15 Middle Eastern 2012. The
parish is 40 British/Celt 5 European
35 Asian 20 Middle Eastern/African
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Make-up of a parish or a PFG
40 Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh 5 Dutch,
German, Italian, Polish 20 Sudanese, Kenyan,
Iraqui, Palestinian, Sth African 35 Korean,
Vietnamese, Indian, Burmese, Lebanese
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Make-up of a parish or a PFG
What are some things that need to be taken into
account for - worship - making or feeling
welcome - one to one conversation -
belonging/being involved - including in groups
(e.g. PFGs)
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PFGs in your parish
What different cultures do you have in your
parish? Do some of them keep separate? Why do
they do that?
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PFGs in your parish
Can they be included in a PFG? How? What
practical things can we do to help us belong to a
multicultural PFG?
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Cultural Difference
Culture helps to give order and meaning to human
behaviour. Values, practices, and beliefs of a
culture are the products of the conditioning and
learning that take place within the family,
social groups and countries of origin E.g.
Maori, Samoan, Tongan and other polynesian people
have many common values, but some different
beliefs and customs
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Cultural Terminology
Intercultural communication between cultures and
the engagement of cultural difference Multicultur
al different cultures co-existing in the same
place at the same time Acculturation the
process of cultural change where contact between
two or more cultures leads to one group taking
over elements of the other groups culture
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Cultural Terminology
Subculture a sub-group of a larger culture that
is different and unified in that
difference (Bikie gang, goths)
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• Intercultural Sensitivity
• Dominance We are the centre of the Universe
• Denial
• lack of awareness of cultural differences
• 2. Defence
• - cultural differences are disturbing
• - different cultural groups are put down

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• Intercultural Sensitivity
• Minimise
• Cultural differences are acknowledged but not
  taken seriously

Cultural differences are at the very core of a
persons identity so they do matter Being the
home culture is no excuse, especially for a
follower of Jesus
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• Intercultural Sensitivity
• Acceptance
• respect for behavior and value differences
• Adaptation
• learning to communicate across multiple
  cultures worldviews
• Integration
• able to be accepting, even marginal
  within various cultures