Toward Community-Wide Interest in Other Peoples  

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Nostrand, Howard Lee

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 14 no. 4 (1981), page 299-305.
Fulltext: 14_04_Nostrand.pdf (638.15KB)

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AFISTRACAT nine-month experiment, “Bonjour Seattle, ’’ suggests the possibility of building community support for the motivation to learn about other peoples. The Community Advisory Board of a multidisciplinary university group started small, and after two years organized a city-wide program of some 50 cultural and commercial events. Financial contributions and volunteer time totaled more than $135,000. Suggestive for others 13 the program’s experience of different types of events, management with 130 volunteer workers, fund-raking, and trade promotion. The program led to a second-year phase, concentrating on trade development, French conversation and discussion groups, and as centerpiece, the twinning with a French sister city. This relationship interests the community and the media, and it solves the problem of arousing a reciprocal interest among the French. It gives a role to city and state government, and affords the opportunity for a membership organization. Understaffed and undercapitalized as it was, the program built bridges between education, business, and government as well (IS between an ethnic group and a community, and between the Pacific Northwest and France

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