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.
According to the eyewitnesses, the wave crest was only between 25 and 50-foot wide, and the front slope was steeper than the back of the wave. The event that produced the largest wave ever recorded was later studied and modeled by Hermann M. Fritz (1999), Charles L. Mader and Michael L. Gittings (2002). Learn how waves are formed.