gratitude and generosity in cross-cultural exchanges-revision2
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B E A R I N G W I T N E S S
A C T I N G I N S O L I D A R I T Y
B U I L D I N G C O M M U N I T Y
Gratitude & Generosity in
Cross-Cultural Exchanges
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My context
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My power
We (first world, privileged) and I (white male, firstworld, privileged) carry inherent power.
It cannot be set aside going native is a
comforting myth. The question is how do we employ this power?
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I can look on a tree
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encounter
Travel, whether crosstown or international, isencounter.
Each encounter is a callevoking a response.
Each response is basedin, and reveals, thetravelers intent.
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Exploring
intent
We are intentional,rarely accidental, in ourcross culturalencounters.
We go somewhere for areason which may beclear or obscure to us.
Understanding ourintentions can bechallenging
And may span a rangeof intention
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Mistaken intentions & false generosities
To hell with good intentions
I am here to entreat you to use your money, your status andyour education to travel in Latin America. Come to look, cometo climb our mountains, to enjoy our flowers. Come to study.
But do not come to help. Ivan Illich, 1968
Service?
Service has a tendency to emphasize a focalized view ofproblems and issues .
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Student trips
2011 and 2012 learningexchanges toNicaragua.
Small student groupsengage in experientiallearning decidedlynot service learning.
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Receiving
generosity
In my experience, we the privileged fromNorth America aremost often the
recipients of truegenerosity.
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Returning
gratitude
Encountering thisgenerosity, we canreturn only honestgratitude to our hosts.
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Now what?
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Dialogue
'Dialogue is theencounter between men,mediated by the world, inorder to name the
world'.
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Hope
dialogue cannot existwithout hope. Hope isrooted in men'sincompletion, from
which they move out inconstant search-a search
which can be carried outonly in communion with
others"
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W E A L W A Y S ( E V E N T U A L L Y ) C O M E H O M E
Returning home
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Solidarity
Solidarity deepens andtransform service,creating a lens throughwhich what has been
seen and experiencedcreates a bridge. Thereis no other world, noplace to go to there isonly the struggle ofhumans workingtogether to build a
world
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Community
Building a communityof truth which can bearwitness and act insolidarity to sustain
hope, support dialogueand transform theworld.
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In gratitude
Don Teofilo unknowing mentor formuch of my work onthis subject
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Thank you.
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