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 Indian Ocean tsunami ten years ago traveled at speeds reaching 500 miles per hour and barged up to a mile inland. It killed some 200,000 people, making it the deadliest wave known. 78 feet Garrett McNamara holds the record for the largest wave ever surfed, set in 2011 in Nazare, Portugal. Last year he claimed to have surfed a 100-footer also at Nazare, but the height hasnât been confirmed. 84 feet Until 1995, most scientists dismissed sudden, unexpected swells known as rogue waves as maritime myth. But on New Yearâs Day of that year, a monitoring platform off Norwayâs coast recorded a single 84-foot wave surrounded by 20-footers.