Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Culture Quote of the Day

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

I have seen this attributed to Anais Nin. I have heard it quoted in the film Anna and the King, which to me is a beautiful film illustrating the process of someone growing from being ethnocentric (seeing and evaluating the world from their own cultural perspective, and discounting other perspectives) to being what Bennett (in his “Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity”) calls ethnorelative (or what one might call ethnosensitive), realizing that one’s cultural perspective is one among many in the world.

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