Cultural Diversity in Database Teaching

Despite a different understanding of the world, we are living in a global world in which we must cope not only with the communication in our own language and culture, but also with global communication in a common language, the so called lingua franca. Very often this is the English language, that simplifies the communication, but does not dismiss the cultural differences between different national cultures and inside other cultural groups. In our contribution, we will concentrate on the cultural influence on teaching databases. Open questions that we want to discuss are: Which cultural viewpoints have to be considered (national, different users' groups); how culture influences expert work; and finally, yet importantly, do we have general solutions for those open questions? Besides the presentation of basic cultural concepts like culture, cultural differences, cultural awareness and others, we will also present the experiences of a student test group and students from the Erasmus+ program, who answered the question about cultural viewpoint inclusion into conceptual modelling (local students), or take part in the interview (Erasmus students).