Analogy

Only One Legitimate Reading?

David Livermore, Cultural Intelligence

A narrow categorizer has difficulty believing there can be more than one legitimate interpretation of a story or event. Cultural intelligence requires the opposite posture: the humility to allow that people formed in different contexts may see what we miss, and that our first reading is not automatically the final one.

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Cultural humility includes the willingness to admit that our reading of a story or situation may not be the only possible one.

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