Dr. Milton J. Bennett has been active in the intercultural field since 1967. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia from 1968-1970, and returned to complete his doctorate in intercultural communication and sociology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He also holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's degree in psycholinguistics from San Francisco State University.

1. INTERCULTURAL
SENSITIVE
&
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
BY MILTON J. BENNET
Ignacio
San Martín

2. CULTURAL DIFERENCES
 Complex perceptual organizations
 Predictions about behavior
 Divided in two stages;
Ethnocentric & Etnhorelativism

3. ETHNOCENTRIC
&
ETHNORELATIVISM
Ethnocentric
It is about the own culture and judge other groups
relative to their own ethnic group.
Language
Behavior
Religion
Custom
Ethnocentric
Denial
Defense
Minimization

4. ETHNOCENTRIC
Ethnocentric divided in three stages:
1. Denial: Individual Experience. Their own Culture as the
only “real one”
2. Defense: Now there are able to recognize that the
difference between cultures, but in a way, they protect
their own interest.
3. Minimization: “We are all the human”,
everyone its same, like me.
The melting pot it’s a example
of devalued of culture mix.
Ethnocentric
Denial
Defense
Minimization

5. ETHNOCENTRIC
&
ETHNORELATIVISM
Ethnorelativism
No one culture it is superior to another.
Recognize differences between cultures
Believe in adapted or accommodate
Ethnorelativism
Acceptance
Adaptation
Integration

6. ETHNORELATIVISM
Ethnorelativism divided in three stages:
1. Acceptance: No always are agreement. Accept some
cultures but I don’t like that my self.
2. Adaptation: Intercultural empathy. Interpret and evaluate
from more than one cultural perspective.
3. Integration: More desirable stage than adaptation, define
as acculturation or assimilation of culture.
Ethnorelativism
Acceptance
Adaptation
Integration

7. ETHNOCENTRIC
&
ETHNORELATIVISM
Ethnocentric
Denial
Defense
Minimization
Ethnorelativism
Acceptance
Adaptation
Integration

8. CULTURAL SENSITIVE
&
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
BY
J. BENNET
Ignacio
San Martín