Students develop intercultural understanding as they learn to value their own cultures, languages and beliefs, and those of others. They come to understand how personal, group and national identities are shaped, and the variable and changing nature of culture.or intercultural understanding to be fully developed, students need to explore a range of underlying concepts: 1  the complex, dynamic and variable nature of culture. 2  the relationship between culture and indvidual identity. 3  the influence of identity on individual beliefs, values, perspective and behaviours.
Amazing pictures show one of the world's best surfers take on the planet's biggest wave in daredevil Portuguese festival. 1  Massive waves crash into beaches of Praia do Norte in Nazare caused by powerful storms in the North Atlantic. 2  It's the site of the world record surf where US board rider Garrett McNamara rode along the top of a 100ft wave.
The highest wave ever recorded was 112 feet tall, spotted in the Pacific by a U.S. Navy tanker in the 1920s. Now, whenever large ships get lost at sea and never return, many are quick to speculate they were victims of rogue waves. Rogue waves occur in the open ocean in a number of ways. One common cause is when two smaller waves coalesce to produce a very large wave for a short time. âYou get waves that add up â smaller waves that constructively interfere and for a short time produce a very large wave,â Washburn said.