Response Journal entry #5: Cultural Products

Teaching culture: Analyzing Artifacts

Describing an object adding my artifact done in class.
Phone booths turn into teleport transportation stations

In Costa Rica we are aware of all the transportation chaos we have at the moment. To end with this problem, a telephone booth teleport was created; it might soon be used for more than making a phone call.
Our country´s phone booths will be converted into teleport transportation stations, usually based on encoding information about an object (in this case a human being) , transmitting the information elsewhere, such as through a radio signal, and create an original copy of the destination.
Instead of using our cars to go to different places, we actually can teleport from a phone booth to another in 5-10 minutes depending on where we might want to go, maximum 2 people per phone booth. By the end of the year, the government plans to convert 29 more booths around the country. For now, the phone booths can only be use around our capital San Jose, and the cost will be approximately 3000-4000 colones one ride. However, next year, there are going to be cards, instead of paying with cash.
This transportation will definitely help to avoid traffic jumps, so people will be able to move around quicker and will decrease the pollution in the environment.



Learning Culture: MAPS. I drew a floor map of my room describing each objects that are inside of it, identifying my cultural perspective.





Institutions involve many cultural practices. A strategy for understanding institutions is to list the procedures requires a flowchart.
Using my native culture, I listed the steps one needs to follow from the beggining to end for each of the procedures using a flowchart.
Learning Culture: Flowcharts.

A)Getting a driver's license
For the first time driver's license, the applicant must meet the following requirements
1. Approve the basic driver education course.
2. Present practice driving test.
3. Satisfactory medical report physical and psychological aptitudes.
4. Current ID card.

B)Getting medical treatment
Going to the doctor for a check up to see if everything is fine, if not, the doctor recommends the patient to get a medical treatment in order to analyze and terminate any kind, of hygienic, pharmacological, surgical or physical health problem aimed at cure or relief any kind of disease or symptoms, when it has reached a diagnosis. to have a quick therapy, or healing method.


C)Reporting a crime
If you've been the victim of a crime or think you have witnessed one, you should report it to the police straight away or inmediately call to 911 and explain what happened.
After that, you will have to give a statement to the police as accurate and as detailed as possible, when you've finished giving a statement, the police will usually read it back to you to make sure that their written account matches yours.
If you agree, you'll sign the statement and get a crime reference number. If you want to contact the police about the same incident in the future, you'll need to keep that reference number in a safe place.


D)Establishing a law
To establish a law is a long and complicated road because it must pass through a series of reviews and scrutiny in committees, consultations and constitutional debates in the plenary.
After the law is presented to the board, the specialized committee begins to have a first disccusion in order to correct any flaw may have . Later on, is send to the Constitutional Tribunal for its analysis and if they do not find any mistake or legal issue, the draft is sent tback to the plenary and discussed in the first debate, Members present their arguments for and against it by through motions.

E)Getting married
There are certain steps in order to get married:
Provide birth certificates.
Provide recent certification of their marital status .
Having two witnesses.
Bring their identity cards .
After they got marriage ,the Consular Attorney tells the applicants that they must complete a civil marriage certificate which is sent to the registry office for registration of marriage.


F)Getting a bank loan
The lender must fully understand their business operation. All the information he recieves must be carefully documented to provide a complete picture of the company, including numbers, facts and figures necessary to approve the proposal. Without sufficient data to answer all questions that may arise, the lender will have to either request more information or take the easy route and simply say no to the application


G)Religious rituals
The Catholic heritage remains important in everyday language and culture.
Our culture demonstrate our Catholic faith mainly at baptisms, weddings, and funerals or during holy week and on saints' days.
On the eve of the 2 August celebration for the national patron saint— Our Lady of the Angels—pilgrims throughout the country fulfilling "promises" to her hike to Cartago's Basílica of Our Lady of Los Angeles. Most churches sponsor local saints' celebrations, which are smaller and more secular in comparison with the national holiday for Our Lady of Los Angeles.


H)Paying taxes
In Costa Rica there are two types of taxes: direct taxes and indirect taxes.

Direct taxes: they are tohse that directly affect the wealth of people, both natural and legal.
Indirect taxes: they are those who are paid on the purchase of goods or services


Teaching Culture: Personal relationship to cultural content
Is personal relationship to cultural content a factor in your teaching of culture?

As human beings we need to have a constant communication between high context and low context. Depending on the kind of relationship, the situation, and the purpose of communication, we may be more or less explicit and direct this time regarding to another culture. We as teachers need to differentiate and pay attention to the many variations of cultural content and be careful to pay specific attention to nonverbal cues and the behavior of others who may know more of the unspoken rules leading the communication.