Intercultural Language Teaching

I'm totally agree that culture issues should be added into classroom. However, cultural issues often excluded from language teaching. I think that's because teacher don't want to teach wrong thing so avoid mentioning it is the easiest way to do so. From my own opinion, when I learn English at school, teacher just follow textbooks an didn't mention anything about western culture. Most of English teacher in Taiwan, they got they education in Taiwan as well so they didn't have experience regarding western culture. Thus, staying in only teach things in textbook in safer for them. For me, I have the advantage in teaching Chinese as I'm the native speaker and I live in NZ. Both side's culture I'm familiar with so it is easy for me to do cultural comparison. Ofter, students find it is really interesting and it becomes a motivation for them to keep learning. Besides, compare different culture will let students form a new idea for their own culture or even for themselves. They might recognize something is valuable but they haven't noticed before.