The objective is to learn about how you feel when you are in a situation which is not your cultural norm . This is a fun activity when the students really get into their 'culture'. Each student designs six business cards for themselves. Students only exchange cards if they are comfortable with their interaction with the person from the other culture . If not, no card.
Students are to react to their cultural taboos.
They can decide in their pre-meeting strategy how they will react when others cross their taboos etc. At the end, they add up their cards and see how successful cross-cultural interactions have been. In each group only share explain your taboos and customs with someone from another culture if you feel like it. These cultures are all fictitious. The students can name their culture if they like and add some other guidelines.