Read Chapter 2: Barriers to Intercultural Communication

Listen to or Read this piece:
  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-eastern-and-western-cultures-tackle-learning 
 
Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Leaning (NPR) 

Use some key concepts (Assuming Similarity Instead of Difference, Ethnocentrism, Stereotyping) to consider this question: What can we gain by understanding cultural differences in education?
In at least 5 sentences answer the prompt above by making a connection between the piece and our text.