Hi, after your help.
I was going to put this in the TV and music section but it's kind of an interesting topic on its own so thought GD might be interested. There used to be a TV show on C4 (possibly late Friday night) where groups of holiday makers from different countries were staying in a hotel / resort. They were asked to do tasks or sometimes they were put in situations to see how they would react culturally.
Basically the different reactions / approaches of the different countries were analysed.
I remember one scenario clearly when the groups separately came down to breakfast. In the breakfast room were flags of the nations of the world and for this experiment each group would find that their own countries flag has been vandalised or burnt overnight.
Americans - Very upset I think some of the women close to tears
Japanese - Very shocked and concerned they had upset someone
Brits - A mixture of American and Japanese reaction.
There were Scandinavians and Germans too but I cant remember their reactions as much.
The whole thing wasn't very scientific but it was fascinating and the stereotypes really shone through in most tasks.
Does anyone know what it was called? Would be interesting to find some clips on YouTube.
I was going to put this in the TV and music section but it's kind of an interesting topic on its own so thought GD might be interested. There used to be a TV show on C4 (possibly late Friday night) where groups of holiday makers from different countries were staying in a hotel / resort. They were asked to do tasks or sometimes they were put in situations to see how they would react culturally.
Basically the different reactions / approaches of the different countries were analysed.
I remember one scenario clearly when the groups separately came down to breakfast. In the breakfast room were flags of the nations of the world and for this experiment each group would find that their own countries flag has been vandalised or burnt overnight.
Americans - Very upset I think some of the women close to tears
Japanese - Very shocked and concerned they had upset someone
Brits - A mixture of American and Japanese reaction.
There were Scandinavians and Germans too but I cant remember their reactions as much.
The whole thing wasn't very scientific but it was fascinating and the stereotypes really shone through in most tasks.
Does anyone know what it was called? Would be interesting to find some clips on YouTube.
