"Most of our behaviors are habitual. We grow up acting and speaking in a certain way as a reflection of how we've been socialized to see the world. So there's little hope we can deal with our cross-cultural behavior in any kind of sustained way unless we actually become different people. As we think about relating to the Other with love and respect, we have to get beyond behavior modification approaches wherein we appear culturally intelligent and respectful and move toward actually becoming more multicultural people who genuinely love, respect, and appreciate the Other and his or her differences."
David Livermore, Cultural Intelligence
The key question is, how do we change? How do we become different people, in how we relate to the different Other?
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