Navigating the Human Terrain: Development of Cross-Cultural Perspective Taking Skills

摘要

U.S. military missions often require that our troops work effectively with people from different cultures. To do this requires, at all levels of our force structure, an appreciation of the intricacies of societal and tribal cultures and the complexity of human-to-human interactions. This report describes the concept for a culture-general training system that can enhance multicultural perspective taking using two complimentary and integrated components. The first component teaches intercultural knowledge and theory, and the second is a cultural assimilator, which uses a scenario-based approach. short stories describing realistic and challenging interactions between two or more persons from different cultural backgrounds.