A Study of Cross-Cultural Communication for U.S. Military Application: Identifying Mind/Minefields and Avenues of Approach

Abstract

When soldiers have a mission which requires them to interact within a different culture, there are certain PIRs that are essential to the success of the mission. Everyone knows the consequence of engaging a trip wire connected to a land mine. Every culture is surrounded by boundaries. These boundaries, like mind/minefields, have trip wires, that when triggered detonate the mine. Cultural boundaries are established on the basis of what is valued by individuals in a particular culture. Such boundaries are mind/minefields and when tripped, have as much potential for human casualty. Just as engineers breach minefields to create avenues of approach, there are ways of penetrating the mind minefields contained within cultural boundaries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392138

Entities

People

  • Charles E. Reynolds

Organizations

  • Princeton Theological Seminary

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anthropology
  • California
  • Cemeteries
  • Chaplains
  • Christianity
  • Churches
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • North America
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Religion
  • Societies
  • Terrorists
  • United States

Readers

  • Military Science
  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
  • Systems Analysis and Design