maloki 🍵Anyone familiar with DMIS?
The developmental model of Intercultural sensitivity?
Since I'm having issues focusing, I figured I could just as well talk with people in here about it, rather than studying directly? 🤔
So. DMIS is rather an adaptation to a culture, in opposition to assimilation.
Instead of replacing your values, and knowledge. You learn how to adapt to the (host) other culture, but still retain all your knowledge of your native culture.
#DMIS is a constructivist way of describing how people become more Interculturally adaptive.
It's on a scale, from ethnocentric to ethnorelative.
Denial, defense, minimization | acceptance, adaptation, integration.
I guess, also less. But the scale isn't supposed to slide back. Or maybe I just haven't read that part yet.
Okay, another name for #DMIS is apparently #BennettScale which makes sense, since Bennett is the author.
Now reading the Wikipedia article.