BECOMING INTERCULTURALLY COMPETENT

INTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE. USA: 6203 Rosebay Drive Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 +1 503-268-1025. Italy: Via Francesco Arese 16, 20159 Milano +39 02 66 800 486. BECOMING INTERCULTURALLY COMPETENT . Final Draft 1/8/04: Bennett, M. J. (2004). BECOMING INTERCULTURALLY COMPETENT . In Wurzel (Ed.) Toward multiculturalism: A reader in multicultural education. Newton, MA: Intercultural Resource Corporation. Milton J. Bennett, Executive Director, The Intercultural Development Research Institute Director, The Intercultural Communication Institute Portland, Oregon USA Discovering the Sequence of Development After years of observing all kinds of people dealing (or not) with cross-cultural situations, I decided to try to make sense of what was happening to them. I wanted to explain why some people seemed to get a lot better at communicating across cultural boundaries while other people didn't improve at all, and I thought that if I were able to explain why this happened, trainers and educators could do a better job of preparing people for cross-cultural encounters.

cultural difference, either by accepting its importance, by adapting perspective to take it into account, or by integrating the whole concept into a definition of identity.

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