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Part 3
by Susan Dunn

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The Grace

Approaching the table, someone suggested a prayer of Thanksgiving. The host (the highest status male present) looked surprise so we all turned toward the most known-religious man in the room. However, the host evidently decided it was his job, and began a grace. I looked around. Some had their heads bowed in prayer; others were looking around the room, ill-at-ease.

Ambiance

When they first walked into the house, the US participants looked around as if something was missing. What was missing? There were no Thanksgiving decorations. Nor was there a host; the hosts' child opened the door and we went hunting for the couple.

"I miss my dad," the Missouri woman told me, an oblique reference to the greeting-situation. "He always greeted guests so warmly, with a hug and a big smile at the front door."

The Dominican-Spain couple missed music and dancing. "In my country we dance after dinner," he said. "Here, you sit and fall asleep."

He and the gentleman from Australia also stayed in the room where the women were after dinner; the rest of the guys went off to the rec room.

Afterglow

Conversations continued after the event. The upshot was we'd had a good time, good company, and didn't wish to appear ungrateful, but we all were left feeling "homesick." Next year we'd do our own Thanksgivings, we agreed.

However, the next year my husband and I found ourselves in the car Thanksgiving Day, on the way over to the house of a Pakistani couple.

"Why on earth would they invite us over for Thanksgiving?" my husband asked. "It's an American holiday."

"I think it's nice," I said. "They're going to live in the US and they want to join in and learn new ways. I just hope we have turkey."

"I just better get to watch the game this year," he added, ominously.

Over the chicken makhani and ras malai, unfortunately served during the last quarter of the football game, the Japanese woman on my right said, "So this is how you celebrate Thanksgiving here?"

Cultural Chaos

Interacting with other cultures is challenging, and requires a lot of Emotional Intelligence. It requires flexibility, creativity, empathy and interpersonal skills, plus a lot of understanding and a sense of humor. It forces us to focus on what's really important -- the people or the details? It also brings us to a greater awareness of what our own culture is.

Emotional Intelligence relies on self-awareness and then other-awareness and finding the common ground, with optimism and good spirit. Global Emotional Intelligence relies on own-culture-awareness, then other-culture-awareness, and then finding the common ground with optimism and good spirit.

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