Chapter 1. Reading B. Ethnicity and humour in the workplace. by Elena Novik https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal Made with a warm hug en-us 2022-02-17 05:19:08 UTC 2022-02-17 08:54:08 UTC hello@padlet.com humour may be used to good effect by Pākehā in appropriatecontexts https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052651746 2022-02-17 07:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052651746 self-directed quipsthat downplay their abilities and skills and enable them to conform to cultural expectations of good leadership https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052652677 2022-02-17 07:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052652677 Boundary-marking humour focuses on the differences betweengroups and emphasizes ways in which norms, attitudes andbehaviours can be distinguished. https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052671206 2022-02-17 08:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052671206 https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052672610 Humor is a broader concept defined as the ability of an individual to amuse others . Due to this amusement at the workplace, employees have the freedom in shaping their behavior. Some employees use this freedom in the wrong way , while some take it in a positive sense for building up their behavior .]]> 2022-02-17 08:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052672610 https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052675399 Self disparaging humor is often used in workplace as a tool to reinforce creative disparity amount the people which results in alternately, a unifier and divider, allows humor use to delineate social boundaries.]]> 2022-02-17 08:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052675399 humour can beregarded as contributing to the construction of a specific anddistinctive kind of Māori identity, and typically served to maintainand reinforce solidarity between Māori participants. https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052680076 2022-02-17 08:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052680076 https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052735780 Maori and pakhe are having a business meeting. As showing that maori people are very organized and calm in work places or situations like so that need mor concentration while the other group which are the pakeha, which makes the maori look at pakeha or see them as weird because they don’t act as them, as there was a conversation between two people from the maori people.
As it shows that steven and frank talking normally in the work place while the other groups laugh at them, which shows us that the laughter isn’t a bad or forsaken act in their life but it is for the other group which see it as a belittling or abasement]]> 2022-02-17 08:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052735780 https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052750209 Humor is not bad, but sometimes it gives a bad impression if it is used in the wrong way. Some people use humor as a way to provide a positive impression of themselves. But ofcurse moderating in everything always gives the best results. It's always nice to respect each other differences without judging  and to always put our self in their shoes.]]> 2022-02-17 08:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052750209 https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052753676 the strong ethnic dimension in the humour used in such workplaces is further reinforced by being encoded in linguistic features associated with Mãori participants and Mãori domains and that's happened because of some rural, less educated Mãori who are the specific target of the ridicule and portrayed as relatively illiterate - a view of rural Mãori that is prevalent in the wider society. ]]> 2022-02-17 08:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/elenanoviksmith/b46ljztv7y58eeal/wish/2052753676