Your family represents one example of a co-cultural grouping. Form into groups of four to six, and ask each person to assume that he or she has invited the rest of your group members home for Thanksgiving dinner with the family. Each person should describe what the “rules” are for Thanksgiving dinner. For example, where does everyone sit? When do you know you may start to eat? Does the food get passed around, or does someone put food on each person’s plate and pass the plate down?
What are acceptable topics of conversation? Is conversation lively or muted? How did the “rules” become established in the family, and so forth?