There is a clear pecking order and a DIE code to follow. The teacher is the boss, there is a clear division of intellectual structure, and the rules of system are well understood - grades are spread along a curve, no sharing of answers on tests, gain recognition, put yourself forward, and respond in a loud, clear and confident tone your answer or ideas, gaining points or merits for correct responses. Ring the bell again and students immediately switch to an OLA culture. Sharing and caring become major means of transaction, as food, stories, problems, and joys are circulated among the group. Differences are celebrated.
Help is always available.
As students return home, sharing continues to be a code. One should not be too proud, know-it all, and act better than others. Generally, we like to limit such mixtures to the will of the host people who are receiving the incoming peoples and cultures. The problem with colonization, however, by its very definition, is that the host people are merely overrun by a foreign, uninvited government. If we are truly to control our own future, if we are to have real self-determination, if we are fully to appreciate our public policies and private behavior patterns, we must be aware of these streams of deep cultures within our society and where they come from.