Team 1

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Symbols of a Lifetime

When the students from Indonesia and Germany first met they talked a lot. Besides the normal getting to know each other, we also recognized that there are differences and similarities in our lifestyles. The Message can be best described with the last words in the animation itself: We might start the same, with similar symbols. Then we might differ when our symbols
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Team 2

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What is normal?

While exploring the city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia together as a team, we noticed that there is clearly a difference in perception of various urban signs and symbols between the Indonesian and German students. The Germans were often surprised or in some situations even shocked, whereas the Indonesian students
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Team 3

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Culture Shock

While communicating with our Indonesian fellow students, our team found key differences in the interpretation of symbols between the two cultures. One of our Indonesian team members – Bayu – told us a story about a European who became very confused during a meal at a Padang restaurant. Upon sitting down, the waiter began to bring varying selections of food and placing them on the table
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Team 4

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Using Hands as a Sign

Our first thought about the topic was that there have to be many differences and also many similarities in our two cultures. Based on our trips to Geneng village, Java pop shops, and some other places in Indonesia, we developed our first idea about emojis and facial expressions. But in the end, we realized that
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Team 5

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Dialog of Cultures

The idea was to show the different perceptions of the different cultures by concentrating on these topics: Food, Bathroom, Traffic, Work, Free Time and Religion. We started with one topic after the other and just drew what came to our mind. By going through topic after topic we were able to see the differences and
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