DMIS

• Ethnocentric - My culture is the best. Other cultures are just not as good as mine.

  • Denial Stage
  • Lacks interest in understanding other cultures
  • Defense Stage
  • Derogation, Superiority, Reversal
  • Minimization Stage
  • One's own culture is experienced as universal
• Physical Universalism - Everyone needs the same biological needs
• Transcendent Universalism - Everyone thinks and feels the same
• Ethnorelative - Understand and experience various cultures better

  • Acceptance Stage
  • Respects behavioral and value differences
  • Adaptation Stage
  • Changes own behavior to respect another culture
  • Integration Stage
  • Being a Multicultural Individual
• Microaggression - A comment or action that negatively targets a marginalized group of people.

  • Verbal
  • A comment or question that is hurtful or stigmatizing
  • Behavioral
  • Occurs when someone behaves in a way that is hurtful or discriminatory
  • Environmental
  • When subtle discrimination occurs within society