Activity By Skills: Cross-Cultural Communications
Demographics Lesson 2 Case Studies on Culture Systems
How do culture systems play a role in constructing demographic processes such as family size, age of marriage and childbearing, the care of the elderly, etc. Students examine one of the following case-studies and write an essay or have a group discussion with others in the class who chose (or were assigned) the same reading.
Demographics Lesson 2 One-China Role-Play
Start the activity by showing the BBC video on China’s One Child policy. Then divide the class into multiple roles to debate the policy: 1) government official, 2) businessmen, 3) women’s activist, and 4) farmer. Students should sit in groups of four and, as their character, discuss the continuation of the One-China Policy.