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I have a colleague who teaches on a multi-cultural MBA. His classes are mostly made up of Chinese, Thai and Middle-Eastern students, although all classes are in English and the same program is offered to all domestic students here in New Zealand.

We were talking about all the problems that accrue from this mix of cultures, and how it affects his delivery of his part of the program. He tells me his biggest problem is discussion - most of the Asian students find it difficult to express their personal opinions in public, and are rather inclined to repeat his teaching back to him. The Middle Eastern students are quite good in discussion, but they find it difficult to do group work with the necessary organisation and personal disciple - they all want to have control of all parts of the project.

However, by the end of the MBA program he tells me that it is much harder to tell the students apart through their behavioral patterns. He says that co-operation has become simply the norm for most people, and discussion groups are lively, vigorous and opinionated.

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