3. How do our interactions with the world shape our knowledge?

Task One

Pespectives are shaped by membership of communities. Take a moment to consider

the communities to which you belong and the contribution that each has made to

your overall perspective. Is there knowledge that you have acquired in complete

isolation from any community? If so, what kind of knowledge might that be?

Think about how your portfolio of memberships has changed over the years and

how these dynamics might have in shifts in perspective. Who is responsible

for these shifts, given that membership is voluntary for some communities but not

for others? Might there also have been stand-out events that had a major impact?.

One attempt to describe the ways in which national cultures can differ from one another is Geert Hofstede's Six Dimensions of Culture.

Below, see if you can guess how two countries might compare on the dimensions before typing them into the box.