Theme 1:

LANGUAGE

Old age can be a time of enjoyment.

PROVERB

Italian Japanese Korean

To retire is like getting a second youth. The second life. Life begins when you are sixty.

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Theme 2:
LANGUAGE

Along with old age comes a greater level of wisdom and life experience.
PROVERB

Spanish

The devil knows more because hes old than because hes the devil. I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. He who has not any old man (in his household) let him buy one. An old horse will never get lost. Literally, Keeper of the land. The old pan is the one that makes good food.

Chinese (Mandarin) Arabic (Lebanese) Chinese (Mandarin) Tongan Portuguese

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Talking About Aging
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Theme 3:
LANGUAGE

Old age as a time of challenge potential for loneliness, vulnerability, and lack of ability.
PROVERB

Swedish Hawaiian Chinese (Cantonese) Irish

Youth goes in a flock, manhood in pairs, and old age alone. An oldster who has never reared children sleeps by the roadside. Teaching an old person to learn is like asking a cow to climb a tree. The old man hasnt the place of the cat in the ashes.

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Talking About Aging
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Theme 4:
LANGUAGE

We have control over how we age.

PROVERB

German French

The person who rests will rust. A man is as old as his arteries.

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Talking About Aging
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Theme 1:
LANGUAGE

Youth as a time of naivete and inexperience.

PROVERB

Hungarian Korean Chinese

The eggshell is still on your butt. There is blood on your head and it is not dried off yet. He who has no hair on his lip cant be trusted to do anything well. Youth is an illness that time cures. You are a bud, he is spurred. Uttering of fools.

Spanish Hawaiian Tongan

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Remember When?
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Theme 2:
LANGUAGE

Childhood and youth as times of hopefulness and celebration.

PROVERB

Spanish Japanese Kannada (India) Chinese (Mandarin)

Youth lives on hope and old age on memories. The flower of youth. The upbringing of todays youth is the determinant of tomorrows world. Young people are like the rising sun.

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Remember When?
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Theme 1:
LANGUAGE

Difficulties of intergenerational communication.

PROVERB

Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) Indonesia

Intergenerational communication is like playing music to a cow. A young person talking to an older adult is like a chicken talking to a duck. Intergenerational communication is like an areca nut divided into two. It is like a river. It flows downstream.

Swedish

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Coming TogetherPatterns of Intergenerational Communication
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Theme 2:
LANGUAGE

Positive aspects of intergenerational communication (notions of interdependence).

PROVERB

Chinese

As in the Yangtse River, the waves behind drive on those ahead, so each young generation should excel the last one. One generation plants the trees under whose shade future generations rest.

Chinese

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Coming TogetherPatterns of Intergenerational Communication
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Theme 3:
LANGUAGE

Intergenerational relations within the family.

PROVERB

Chuuk

When one has many relatives, he is like a chief. He can accomplish anything. He has money, work goes well, and food is provided. The more branches a tree has, the more winds it attracts. Take care of the young and they will take care of you in your old age. From such a stick, such a splinter. Like father, like son. Children of frogs are frogs. Father hands down, son hands down.

Korean Ilocano (Phillipines) Spanish Japanese Korean

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Coming TogetherPatterns of Intergenerational Communication
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Theme 4:
LANGUAGE

Youth rebellion.
PROVERB

Swedish

If the Stone Age children had obeyed their parents, we would still be living in the Stone Age. In a family, the mother is the government, the father is the people, and the kid is the opposition. When you become old, you should obey your child.

Swedish

Japanese

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Coming TogetherPatterns of Intergenerational Communication
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Theme 1:
LANGUAGE

It is best not to act too hastily.

PROVERB

Chinese Sesotho (African) Russian Danish English Portuguese English English

Think three times before you act. The hurry-hurry person eats goat; the one who takes his or her time eats beef. Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser. The best advice is found on the pillow. Patience is a virtue. Hurry is the number one enemy of perfection. Good and quickly seldom meet. Haste makes waste.

SESSION OUTLINE PART TWO

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 2:
LANGUAGE

The use of time is associated with one s work ethic.

PROVERB

English Zaire

The early bird gets the worm. A person who arrives early to the spring never gets dirty drinking water.

Assiniboine Indian Be an early riser; the game do not snuggle their heads on (Native American) feather pillows. English English German English Early sow, early mow. Strike while the iron is hot. A little too late is much too late. He who hesitates is lost.

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 3:
LANGUAGE

Take responsibility to help yourself.

PROVERB

Indian Arabic German Japanese English

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. God gives nuts, but he doesnt crack them. Pray to God, but hammer away. God helps those who help themselves.

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 4:
LANGUAGE

Silence is associated with wisdom and knowledge.

PROVERB

Thai Spanish Tanzanian Bible (Proverbs 17:28) French English

A wise man talks a little, an ignorant one talks much. Who knows most speaks the least. The wisest animal is the giraffe; it never speaks. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. The less one thinks, the more one speaks. A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Theme 4:
LANGUAGE

Silence is associated with wisdom and knowledge.

PROVERB

Chinese Indonesian Jamaican Italian

Two good talkers are not worth one good listener. Rippling water shows lack of depth. If speech wut a schillin, silence wut a pound. Many have suffered from talking; none ever suffered for keeping silent. From the tree of silence hangs the fruit of tranquility. Eating little and speaking little can hurt no man.

Peru Hopi Indian

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 5:
LANGUAGE

Excessive or unguarded talking can cause harm.

PROVERB

Japanese Chinese Nilotic (African) Arabic American Turkish

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword. The tongue is like a sharp knife. . . it kills without drawing blood. Words can kill before arms. Turn each word seven times in your tongue before you speak. A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. Empty vessels make the most noise.

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 6:
LANGUAGE

We are influenced by those with whom we associate.

PROVERB

Argentina Blackfoot Indian Spanish

Associate with good men and you will be one of them. Those that lay down with dogs get up with fleas. Live with wolves and you learn to howl.

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Theme 7:
LANGUAGE

Each person is an individual.

PROVERB

Japanese Yiddish

Ten people, ten colors. Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. Different strokes for different folks.

English

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Theme 8:
LANGUAGE

Greed does not pay.

PROVERB

Russian English Latin Blackfoot Indian

A sparrow in the hand is better than a cock on the roof. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. A sparrow in the bush is better than a vulture flying.

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 9:
LANGUAGE

Education is important.
PROVERB

Chinese

Give a man a fish and hell eat for a day. Teach him to fish and hell eat for a lifetime. If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. A teacher is better than two books.

Chinese

German

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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Theme 1 0: Different conceptions of family.

LANGUAGE PROVERB

Hawaiian Zulu

Look to the source. We are who we are today because of you who came before us.

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The Facts of LifeDifferent and the Same Across Countries and Cultures
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