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%INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE COMMON 800802
Inter-cultural dialogue is usually weak because of a
lack of common patterns of perception, analysis, feelings,
affection, and expression. Members of two cultures often
do not understand each other's efforts at communication---
and regard each other with mutual suspicion, rather than
with mutual understanding. Their best intentioned efforts
to make themselves understood may be perceived as
threatening, their efforts at analysis may be perceived as
violent, their feelings as perverted, and expressions of
affection as improper. With misunderstanding so deeply
rooted it is exceedingly difficult to begin to develop
mutual understanding and respect.
The technical community and the personal community
experience such difficulties of understanding. The
difficulties are compounded by the fact that the members
of the two communities are often split personalities who
in their differing personalities play roles in the
differing communities---without being able to serve as
bridges between the two communities. Their split
personalities prevent them from serving as bridges---and
at the same time confound sincere efforts to understand
the dynamics of misunderstanding. Observers see
individuals who seem to be members of just one culture and
so the presence of two cultures in which they participate
is obscured. Anytime that a person with a split
personality participates in correspondingly split
cultures, that person may obscure the existence of the
split cultures.
The difficulties pertain to question of personal
integrity. People with split personalities and cultures
composed of people with split personalities lack
integrity. Communication may be weak and dialogue
virtually non-existent---even though information is
broadcast on the part of all members. Even when members
try to listen actively---they only broadcast on the part
of all members. Even when members try to listen
actively---they perceive all too often from a perspective
which occasions misunderstanding of the person to whom
they listen. It is not enough that there be persons who
participate in each of the contrasting cultures---for such
persons may be split personalities within whom the
cultures are not in dialogue. Only people of full of
integrity can help bridge the two culture dichotomy. Token
participation in "the other" culture will contribute, but
only in a limited way, to mutual understanding.
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