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Barnga - A Simulation Game on Cultural Clashes - 25th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Barnga - A Simulation Game on Cultural Clashes - 25th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Wholly revised to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Barnga is the
classic simulation game for exploring communication challenges
across cultures. While playing Barnga, participants experience the
shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many
similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things
differently from in profoundly important ways, especially people
from differing cultures. Players learn that they must understand
and reconcile these differences if they want to function
effectively in a cross-cultural group. The "game" is deceptively
simple: participants, broken up into several small groups, play a
simple card, never knowing that each group has been given a subtly
different set of rules to play by, nor that those rules will change
yet again as the game develops and groups of players are
reconfigured. Conflicts quickly begin to occur as players move from
group to group, simulating real cross-cultural encounters, where
people initially believe they share the same understanding of the
basic rules and learn to their dismay and confusion that they do
not. In discovering that the rules are different, players undergo a
mini culture shock similar to actual experience when entering a
different culture. They then must struggle to understand and
reconcile these differences to play the game effectively in their
"cross-cultural" groups. Difficulties are magnified by the fact
that players may not speak to each other but can communicate only
through gestures or pictures. In struggling to understand why other
players don't seem to be playing correctly, and with the aid of the
facilitator, participants gain insight into the dynamics of
cross-cultural encounters.
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