{"id":205,"date":"2012-09-11T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jack-crabtree\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:50:34","slug":"dobu-village-a-tribal-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jack-crabtree\/2012\/09\/11\/dobu-village-a-tribal-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobu Village: A Tribal Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">By: Lael Crabtree\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">Imagine walking into class, but instead of the usual podium and white board, the room is dotted with thatch huts, cooking fires, and an old tribal man carving some sort of wooden object. A radio somewhere is blaring island music and the smell of cigarette smoke is in the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">We have entered a tribal village, in the islands region of Papua New Guinea and are here to apply all the knowledge we\u2019ve gained in our training thus far. What an experience!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">Our class has been broken down into teams of about 5 people each. Our goal is to spend time in the village, getting to know the Dobu culture and spend time learning the language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">The Dobu culture is like one big puzzle we are trying to piece together as we get to know the people. We are learning how easy it is to make mistakes and how some things we take for granted as Americans are completely inappropriate with the Dobu people. As our teacher put it, \u201cWe want you to learn how to make mistakes here, so you\u2019ll be better prepared for the field.\u201d It\u2019s amazing how something so simple as how you phrase a question or refer to a person or perform a greeting is completely significant and can possibly cause incredible offense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">Kinosi has been designated as our \u201clanguage helper\u201d so we\u2019ve spent most of our time in the village with him. We had our first language learning session with him last week, and it was the perfect way to apply all of the language learning principles we\u2019ve been studying. It was incredible! By the end of 20 minutes, I had confidently learned 10 new vocabulary words and still remember them now, several days later. We were able to record Kinosi saying the words and take a picture of all the objects. Then we entered the audio and photo into our computer program, and now we can review what we learned! Kinosi\u2019s voice plays, we click the object, and the computer tells us if we\u2019re right or not! Tomorrow we are returning to the village to visit with some of the other villagers and have another language session with Kinosi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">This is such a practical time! While it is only a simulation, it is about as close as it gets to practice for the real thing. It\u2019s also a very humbling time, as we are learning to enter each scenario as total learners. Understanding the tribal culture is so pivotal to building relationships. It\u2019s exciting to see things unfold as we begin to understand the Dobu culture more and more! Just a taste of what it will feel like as we begin to break down similar barriers of understanding in our future tribal home!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Lael Crabtree\u00a0 Imagine walking into class, but instead of the usual podium and white board, the room is dotted with thatch huts, cooking fires, and an old tribal man carving some sort of wooden object. A radio somewhere is blaring island music and the smell of cigarette smoke is in the air. 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