Q Wow, it is so great to get to know you on a cultural level!!! You guys have so many interesting experiences and I learned so much and am honestly inspired by you and honored to have you in this course. Thank you for your honest dialogue...I look forward to reading your autobiography papers. Over the next few days I will be busy reading, listening to, watching, and reviewing the different components to your Cultural Autobiography Projects. Please use Week 4 discussion as an opportunity to work as a group on discussing ANY topics that we have covered thus far that you has impacted you. I encourage you to look at the materials, chapters, or slides and pick one topic (e.g. privilege, multicultural competence, microagression, intraculture, cultural communication/emotion reaction, tripartite model etc) and discuss at least one real life experience that you have encountered within your cultural experience that relates to the topic. When responding to your groupmate, ensure that your dialogue is from cultural appreciation vs cultural deficit model when speaking about learning about your group members' cultural experiences. Also, be respectful of all of your group members' experiences...just because we all have different experiences doesn't mean that we have to agree or disagree with a person's reactions or thoughts. However, they are simply experiences and reality for the person that experienced it. Keep an open mind and avoid invalidating another person's experiences. I am hoping that this week's discussion gives you an opportunity to make the concepts more practical. Many of the questions on your examination are application-based and practicing applying the concepts to your or your groupmates' real life experiences will help you to better prepare for the examination.