Student profiles

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Student Anon	Cultural feature(s)	Is it an asset?
Family culture	We are upper middle class economically speaking – roofers	Work with tools, lots of experience driving different types of vehicles
Peer culture	I am a gamer and a sports practitioner	Being involved in sports has generally kept my physical health better than when I was lazier on that front, so I would say definently.
Class culture	Individualist / Collectivist, there is some selfishness there is some in group helping of employees of the company my family owns	I think its depends on your values, but I do think exercizing your own values generally is the best thing for your own mental health, so sure, its an asset.
University culture	Distant relationship with teachers, but informal – always going to be more distant compared to lower levels of education when teachers have bigger classes and don’t interact with you during your whole education	Generally, I prefer either more strict or more loose lecturers, a dictator or a non authorative figure, not something in between. Either you get to completely goof off in class or you lock in due to the social rules
National educational culture	Few tests	No not really, smaller amounts of tests spread throughout the year would generally give you a better idea of where you were, and allow for a lesser chance of it all hinging on one test.
Discipline culture (of school disciplines like pedagogy, mathematics, science, language...)	Highly funded (relatively), teacher sentric	Norway has more funded education than most areas around the world, we often get public good that other nations see less of. Like the makerspace of Oslomet, the PC division for the IT education, digital solutions for people learning disabilities like TIBI. As for the way classes are taught, I would generally say that is very much up to the teacher.
Ethnic culture	Norwegian	Norwegian ethnically, I expect most people to be able to speak to me in norwegian or at least in english. This is generally the culture if the workforce in your workplace is from another place, e.g polish people in construction may talk a lot of polish at the constructionsite.
Local culture of your area Language culture	Oslo’s culture is more open and more liberal than the rest of the country.	Its good if you feel as though the social sanctions of other areas are too damning on you. Not good for you if you despise people who are too liberal, and feel as though their expression or what they deem their expression of themselves is disturbing you.
Children’s/adult’s play culture	Children play loads of various games, there are less rules. Adults play is generally more competetive and rule based. Both engage in humour but their humor are different.	I believe it doesn’t matter what type of playculture you like, but as an adult its hard to find people who would want to engage in play with you if you truthfully like “childish play”.
Body culture	Hard to define.	Hard to define and varies too much between groups.
Culture of mindfulness	Believe mindfullness and yoga/meditation practitces might be bigger in Norway than other areas, but hard to say.	Don’t know the direct studies on this. Maybe it is good for people who stress too much, and maybe bad for people who struggle taking action in general.
Other	Not sure what to put here.	Not sure what to put here.