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Observing Cultural Differences: Dismantling Ethnocentrism in a Multicultural Environment

In: Transformative Learning

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  • Ashley K. Barrett

    (Baylor University)

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This chapter was designed to highlight some of the beautiful cultural idiosyncrasies, and the maze we must often crisscross in order to see and appreciate them in a multi-cultural environment. My experiences at Qualitative Camp trained and prepared me to be a conscientious interviewer throughout the rest of my time in Norway that summer and when I returned years later. My presence as an American, and the associated Americanized notions of work, predisposed my interviewees to offer “us versus them” distinctions, thus creating a form of response bias triggered by the interviewer. Yet after having accumulated lessons of tolerance and insight at Qualitative Camp, I not only welcomed these statements, I theorized how they could constructively inform both my research and my personal viewpoints of a healthy workplace and life.

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  • Ashley K. Barrett, 2023. "Observing Cultural Differences: Dismantling Ethnocentrism in a Multicultural Environment," Springer Books, in: Frode Soelberg & Larry D. Browning & Jan-Oddvar Sørnes & Frank Lindberg (ed.), Transformative Learning, chapter 8, pages 113-125, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-20439-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20439-5_8
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