The Double-Swing Model
=Basic questions:=
How to deal with the globalised world in terms of the interpersonal, international and intercultural relations? How to respect cultural uniqueness in terms of differences and similarities?
=Modes of intercultural encounter=
There are different ways of encounter and communication. "==A) ethnocentric based upon Selectivness==" "==B) control based on Manipulation==" "==C) dialectical which can be described as a fusion-orientated encounter==" "==D) dialogical that leds eventually in interdependent communication=="
=Development of diaological mode=
=East & West perspectives=
Yoshikawa's theory of the Double-Swing model is based upon the Buddhist philosophy of "soku" and Martin Buber's "I-Thou Relationship".
"==Western Perspective: Martin Buber and his "I-Thou-Relationship"=="
"==The Buddhist philosophy "soku"=="
=The Double-Swing Model=
=Implications=
Difference & otherness as positive factors
-> essential for growth in communication process
Communicator is always active
-> never a passive reactor to communication, but an active creator of own stimuli
Dynamic interplay with whole persons
->focus polar posits - not polar experiences
Self & Other Awareness
->Process in which one's essential identity takes place
=Critics=
What to take care for if “cultures” meet? (concrete examples, best-practices)
What if own acceptance of „anew-creation“ is not given?
What about Buber‘s „narrow-ridge“ (face-to-face requirement)? Representative for western thinking?
What about the Eastern dominance in that model?
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