Cross-Cultural Encounter as an Opportunity for Personal Growth  

Oleh:

Montuori, Alfonso ; Fahim, Urusa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Humanistic Psychology vol. 44 no. 2 (2008), page 243-266.
Topik: cross-cultural encounter; creativity; personal growth; existentialism; culture shock; transformation
Fulltext: 243.pdf (153.43KB)

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Cross-cultural encounters can provide an excellent opportunity for personal growth by placing us in situations where our understanding of self and world, and of how we believe things “are” or “should be,” is severely challenged. In this article, the authors argue that in the United States, the cultural dimension is often overlooked in our understanding of personal growth because U.S. individualism obscures the role of culture in the constitution of the self and that understanding this dimension makes a vital contribution to selfunderstanding. They also view cross-cultural encounters as potentially creative and draw on the psychology of creativity to explore the implications of this view. The authors conclude by arguing that to have the greatest effect, humanistic psychology must both return to its roots in existential-phenomenological psychology and philosophy and tackle its own understanding of the self as a culturally situated phenomenon.

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