10 Types of Cultural Immersion
Cultural Immersion comes in 10 types. We tend to think of cultural immersion as one big leap into another cultural. But in reality there are possibly 10 different levels of cultural immersion. Each one is regulated by our own desires to step outside of our comfort zones and try new things. 1) Superficial Going out to a Chinese restaurant 2) Partially Simulated Foreign language class or local cultural festival, Foreign language radio and television, via Internet download / streaming, shortwave radio, or FTA satellite. 3) Simulated Example: Concordia Language Villages 4) Limited Taking a trip abroad 5) Semi-Limited Backpacking abroad 6) Semi-Intensive University Study Abroad 7) Limited Intensive Living abroad in an urban location 8) Intensive High School Exchange Program 9) Semi-Extreme Living abroad in a rural location and have limited outside contact 10) Extreme Living or studying abroad in a rural location completely off the technology grid The lines b...