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Cultural Awareness We are living in the fast-changing world in which people have to work in a multicultural environment. With the rapid development of globalization, cultural awareness plays an key role in our living and working life. For me, as a overseas student, I used to have many problems with adapting to a new environment. This can be considered as Cross Culture. According to Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, this path has six stages with different behaviors and perceptions. Below are explanation and more detail of each phases: Denial: In the first stage, people may feel aggressive and refuse all interaction with other cultures. Defense: In this stage, people consider their own culture as the best and tend to criticize other cultures. Minimization: This stage, people start realizing that other cultures might have something in common with theirs. Acceptance: At this stage, people may become interested about other cultures and want to explore
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My Great Experience After nearly two years staying in Finland, I still haven't explored all the culture of this country. I would say Finland is one of the great places I've been visitted. More than that, I learnt a lot of things from the day I came here, met many friendly people, realized the cultural differences. The another significant thing I learnt is how to speak up my ideas even if it sounds strange as Finns respect the differences which contrast to my home country. I really love that point of view since I can do whatever I want without worrying about others' thinking. I have to say that privacy is one of the fundamental rights in Finland. It's can be easily seen when Finns waiting for the bus, they always keep a space between each other. Finns birds
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Cherry blossom in Kupitta Park The most popular place for picnic or family trip in summer is Kupitta park. The is not far way from the city center. This is a complex structure with a park for picnic, sport area for football, basketball and so on. One specially feature in this part is the cherry blossom. Meanwhile in other western countries with better weather condition ( I mean warmer), cherry blossom is very popular. In Finland, it is not widely planted in large number, and Kupitta park is one of places possesses numbers of cherry blossom trees. Not so gorgeous like in other place like Japan or Korea which are famous with beautiful road of flower. The cherry blossoms in Kupitta have their own attraction.
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Holy Cross – Koroinen Koroinen is old village in Koroinen district. This was the location of Turku Cathedral before 1300. Today it is a small village with just dozens of villagers. Visiting this area, you may find a small hill with a White Cross with some stones which belong the old Turku Cathedral before destroyed in 1396. I love to visit here in summer, which I can enjoy the fresh air and a peaceful scenery.
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Turku Cathedral This is the most famous tourist attraction that you must know about Turku. It is not based at the center of the city like in other Western cities but you will definitely see it when you come Turku. This is one of remaining structure of the old Turku after the great fire in 1827 that almost destroyed city. The Cathedral witness many important record of Turku and Finland history. Started by Catholic Church, but after the reform in 16 th century, the Cathedral now belongs to Lutheran State Church. The Cathedral play an important role in religious life of Finnish people as well as a center of celebration in Christmas.
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Finnish nature One fact about Finland is that most of the country covered by forest. Even in the city, you may find some small part of the forest surround living areas. This condition gives us chances to live harmonizingly with the nature. Though living in the city, you can easy to catch up with some small animals. Rabbits are the most popular. Or sometimes there are some squirrels playing on trees. If lucky, you can even see a fox or porcupine. Living in Finland make me feel the closer connection between human and nature.
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Steak & Lobster Land Having an awesome lunch in Woolshed restaurant with the wonderful combination of steak and lobster at a reasonable price. Anything can be greater than that? The answer is nooooo - from a big fan of food.😍😍😍 Hungry???
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