Guiding+Questions

**Bringing people together** • Music • Friends search (put things you like on a card) • Race o How you’ve grown up o How come it’s hard become Hawaiian o What if there are bad stereo types? o Words the classify people • Word moke? -What it really means - How you phrase it - The type of person - Where it came from • Hoale? - Term for a white person o Depends on where you are

• What is cross culture? • What are you proving? • How would forcing someone to like certain music bring them together? • Is there a transition with home culture and then school culture? • How do people transition personalities? • How does different people affect your personality? • Why do we use these words that offend people? • Why are some words considered worse then others?

What do we need to know to solve this challenge? I think we need to know how the cultural identities work and what makes people think the way they do about separating others  I think we need to help others to see past the differences of us and what makes us similar. Then, can we begin to make bridges rather than remain in isolation.  I think that we need to know what "cultural identity" is in the first place.   How do other countries view Hawaii's cultural identity? Maybe when you try to judge a person's race, it's like the movie "Blind Sight" where whenever you try to put a race to a face you can never really be positive. It's like you're groping about in the dark.

__//What are all the separate 'cultural identities' of Punahou school? What defines the cultures at Punahou? Why are they different?//__

 Can you change your cultural identity?

__//After looking at the survey results from Punahou, as well as the high schools in Nebraska and North Carolina, talk in your group about what surprised you abotu the results. Also, what questions arise from these results? How might these surveys help you focus your response to the challenge?//__