Taking Cultural Training into the Global Millenium
by Dean Allen Foster

Article Abstract

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We have entered what the author refers to as the “transnational,” post global world. The author argues that intercultural training must change in order to address new changes and issues in the post global world. The post global world cannot be understood by organizing human behavior on a “dualist continuum” that distinguishes between “us” and “them.” The author contends that cultural behaviors in the post global world can only be described as “archetypes” which are “possibilities of human behavior” that are available to all regardless of cultural origins. In short, cultural training needs to reflect this change and needs to reflect the realities of the post global world. The author advocates that cultural training should be an ongoing process, not just a singular event, and should be cognitive rather than behavioral.