This website article discusses the use of Bennett's model for religious activities and how it could help with religious differences. While searching through sites about the DMIS, it was fascinating to see how easy it is to be ethnocentric and not even see another culture. In the first site that I posted, Bennett describes how most people don't see the differences between European Americans and African Americans. Or how most people, didn't even see, literally see, the Latinos that were arriving in cities across the country. After the census was taken, people were in shock as to how many Latinos there were, because they refused to see them. Another thought (and it relates to my second site) is that Bennett's model is for cultural sensitivity, it could also be used for religious sensitivity, as in many places the religion and culture are fully integrated. If people could figure out how to understand religion, like culture, it would help with many interreligious problems.
One question I had though was what if you can't move past a certain stage because the culture practices acts that you believe are morally wrong? I can understand looking at it from within the culture's point of view, but if a person were raised to believe that something despicable in many other societies and even illegal, was acceptable, how does one go about accepting and integrating into that culture? Or is it possible? I realize that this could be the reason that religion is hard to integrate.
Reflect on how a meeting or your day might be if you were of a different culture. Blog on your reflection in the discussion board.. Refer to some specific information you have gained thus far in the course.
My day would be much different if I were in an Asian culture. Currently I work as a server, and it is my job to be outgoing and bubbly and smiling all the time. But if I were doing the same job in say, Japan, then my attitude at work, what is expected of me here, may be considered extremely rude and disrespectful. The way that people address one another, and treat people of different ages, is more reverently than in the U.S. I serve many businessmen, and even company presidents, and I treat them the same.
From a business standpoint, going over documents and writing everything down for the other party may be a mistake. This could be because the culture doesn't use documents so much for the business that you are in, or they may not even be able to read them.
http://www.newonline.org/resource/resmgr/mcw_ppt/becominginterculturallycompe.pdf
In this website, Bennett goes into much more detail regarding each of the stages.
http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/view.html/PrsDiscourseArticles/194
This website article discusses the use of Bennett's model for religious activities and how it could help with religious differences.
While searching through sites about the DMIS, it was fascinating to see how easy it is to be ethnocentric and not even see another culture. In the first site that I posted, Bennett describes how most people don't see the differences between European Americans and African Americans. Or how most people, didn't even see, literally see, the Latinos that were arriving in cities across the country. After the census was taken, people were in shock as to how many Latinos there were, because they refused to see them.
Another thought (and it relates to my second site) is that Bennett's model is for cultural sensitivity, it could also be used for religious sensitivity, as in many places the religion and culture are fully integrated. If people could figure out how to understand religion, like culture, it would help with many interreligious problems.
One question I had though was what if you can't move past a certain stage because the culture practices acts that you believe are morally wrong? I can understand looking at it from within the culture's point of view, but if a person were raised to believe that something despicable in many other societies and even illegal, was acceptable, how does one go about accepting and integrating into that culture? Or is it possible? I realize that this could be the reason that religion is hard to integrate.
Reflect on how a meeting or your day might be if you were of a different culture. Blog on your reflection in the discussion board.. Refer to some specific information you have gained thus far in the course.
My day would be much different if I were in an Asian culture. Currently I work as a server, and it is my job to be outgoing and bubbly and smiling all the time. But if I were doing the same job in say, Japan, then my attitude at work, what is expected of me here, may be considered extremely rude and disrespectful. The way that people address one another, and treat people of different ages, is more reverently than in the U.S. I serve many businessmen, and even company presidents, and I treat them the same.
From a business standpoint, going over documents and writing everything down for the other party may be a mistake. This could be because the culture doesn't use documents so much for the business that you are in, or they may not even be able to read them.