The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)

Question 1

It describes how people develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of cross-culture differences.

Answer 1

DMIS

Question 2

When and who developed the DMIS?

Answer 2

The DMIS was developed in 1986 by Dr. Milton Bennett.

Question 3

Based on the belief that a person’s culture is the only real culture.

Answer 3

Denial

Question 4

Feels as though their own culture is the only good culture and may feel threatened by other cultures and their differences.

Answer 4

Defense

Question 5

Begins to find commonalities between themselves and people of other cultures, banking on the universality of ideas.

Answer 5

Minimization

Question 6

Promotes belief that one’s culture is just one of the many cultures in the world.

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Acceptance

Question 7

Now open to worldviews when accepting new perspectives

Answer 7

Adaptation

Question 8

Starts to go beyond their own cultures and see themselves based on different cultural viewpoints

Answer 8

Integration

Question 9

Belief that one’s own cultural group’s behaviors, norms, ways of thinking and ways of being are more superior to all other cultural groups.

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Ethnocentricism

Question 10

Oversimplification or distortion of views of another race, another ethnic group, or even another culture.

Answer 10

Stereotyping

Question 11

Negative attititude toward a cultural group based on little or no experience.

Answer 11

Prejudice

Question 12

Overt actions one takes to exclude, avoid, distance oneself from other groups.

Answer 12

Discrimination