cross culture exercise

[BOBANDSANDRA]

During youth leadership training some years ago I was introduced to a cross culture exercise involving splitting a fairly large group of people into two  and giving each group a set of "norms" for their society. Two people from each group  were then sent to experience the other groups society with the aim of trying to determine their "norms" and then came to report back to their own group before the next pair were sent off to do the same until all had been.Although this had a serious side to it relating to what we were studying, what made it incredibly enjoyable and memorable was the roles each society had as their "norms" which the visitors all found very confusing! This is the part that I can't remember. Is anyone familiar with this exercise and can tell me exactly what each society adopts as their norms?? I can remember playing cards, lots of blinking, flapping arms like chickens,mooing like cows, baaing like sheep, smarties, laying hands flat on the floor palms up, but I can't remember how all this fits together. Someone please help before everyone else dismisses me as a raving luny!!!

[woofgang]

I do know the exercise. sometimes when  I have done it, each group has made up its own norms, other times it has been to illustrate a point, like men can't look at women, women can interrupt men when they are speaking and the men have to shut up immediately, the usual stuff. If your facilitator made yours up, it sounds like you had a creative facilitator!!