[David Stephen, PhD]

I lived in Brazil for a number of years and found no washcoths there, either. I believe some people of other cultures may consider a washcloth to be a kind of dirty rag, and who would want one on one’s body? Why not use a brush instead? Or a sponge? I did see bath sponges and loofas in Brazil.

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[David Stephen, PhD]

Perhaps early American theater stereotyped the English as the bad guys (after all, we did fight our first war against the Brits) and it stuck. It certainly seems to have done so in melodramas. In deeper drama, you may find no stereotype, or a more sophisticated one. But an upper-class, rich, disdainful bad guy seems to be a likely antithesis to the humble, hardworking, poor-but-honest American hero.

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[David Stephen, PhD]

I teach int’l business and cross-cultural mgmt. I’ve travelled quite a bit and was surprised to find that even the smallest cross-cultural experience can have a profound and beneficial effect. I suggest you 1) go to a country where you already have a rudimentary grasp of the language (did you take high school French, Spanish, German?), 2) try to stick among the natives as much as possible to get the most of your time, and 3) keep a daily detailed journal because many of your thoughts, feelings, observations, etc. will benefit from examination later. Congrats on an urge to go abroad. I wish it were a requirement for every degree!

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[David Stephen, PhD]

I believe those with a limited working vocabulary may find ‘denigrate’ difficult in the same way some find the word ‘niggardly’ difficult to accept or use. There are other examples, such as ‘queer’ and ‘gay.’ I suppose these words are emotoionally charged words for some people, that is, they are given mis-meaning, because they have multiple connotations. I say, go ahead and use your vocabulary and let others catch up to you. That said, it is unfortunate that ‘black’ has a connotation of ‘evil’ but our language would be the poorer if we sanitized it of all imagery.

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