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Intercultural Development Continuum · Stage 3 of 6
Recognize when an emphasis on sameness hides real cultural difference in your team's practice and your own habits, and take practical steps to hold commonality and difference together.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
Describe Minimization as the transitional orientation between monocultural and intercultural mindsets on the Intercultural Development Continuum.
Identify signs of commonality emphasis built into team routines, forms and policies rather than in individual attitudes.
Identify personal phrases and habits that signal an emphasis on sameness in your own work.
Explain why more reminders of shared values do not by themselves help people move past Minimization.
Add one question to a review checklist you already use: "What would a person need to already know, have or be comfortable with to use this, and who have we checked that with?" Use it on your next draft.
Recognize when an emphasis on sameness hides real cultural difference in your team's practice and your own habits, and take practical steps to hold commonality and difference together.
Add one question to a review checklist you already use: "What would a person need to already know, have or be comfortable with to use this, and who have we checked that with?" Use it on your next draft.
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
Source for the continuum's orientations, Minimization as a transitional mindset, similarity and universalism, and the two forms of commonality emphasis in dominant and non-dominant groups. Used for shared vocabulary only; the program does not assess anyone.
Confirms that the inventory is based on the continuum and can only be administered and its results shared by a licensed Qualified Administrator.
Describes the Qualified Administrator, the individual debrief and the Intercultural Development Plan. Supports the course's point that development follows a debrief rather than self-labeling.
Bennett's description of Minimization, the organizational tendency to mask dominant culture privilege behind equal opportunity, and resolution by holding similarity and difference together. The DMIS is the earlier model from which the continuum was developed.
Research article on the development of the fifty-item inventory from Bennett's model. Cited for background on the instrument, not to support any use of it by this program.
States the department's commitment to operate as a multicultural and intercultural organization and requires equity analysis for decisions with lasting impact. Supports the course's workplace applications.