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  AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY Introduction What is auto-ethnography? According to Wikipedia, “a uto-ethnography” is a form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.” In this essay, I will attempt to describe the culture I come from through personal observations and research, with the aim of helping others from similar backgrounds to feel more connected to the experience and to better understand themselves. My hope is that they will thereby be better able to teach outsiders about the culture with its nuances and differences so that they will have a more accurate and objective perspective when interacting with people from similar backgrounds. Cultural Background In this essay, I choose to introduce the wider cultural background of the place in which I grew up: the Hungarian part of Serbia that was k

It is inevitable to see that in recent years globalization has become more prevalent. The world is not a collection of separated tiny islands of cultures and people anymore but has become an open and very much accessible space for all its citizens. With modern technology, we can be in one part of the world within just a few hours. With the internet, we can communicate with anyone on the globe instantly. This fast-paced change urges us to become more open to other cultures, to look into the differences to be able to communicate with each other successfully. And by communication, I don’t only mean understanding each other’s words. We need communication that penetrates more deeply, and we call this cross-cultural communication. In a sense, globalization emphasizes the idea that we are all the same: after all, we are all humans with similar needs. From one angle, that is true, but the question is more complex than this. We are all individuals with different codes and “software”, that is, c