Transcultural Case Study
PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE
EAST-WEST-CONCEPT IN FAMILY THERAPY
ABOUT THE COURAGE TO RISK A TEST
A king put his court to a test for an important post. Powerful and wise men stood around him in great numbers.
''You wise men," said the king, "I have a problem, and I want to see who of you is in a position to solve it."
He led the men to a huge door, bigger than anyone had ever seen. The king explained, "Here you see the biggest and heaviest door in my kingdom. Who among you can open it?"
Some of the courtiers just shook their heads. Others, who were counted among the wise men, looked at the door more closely but admitted they could not do it. When the wise men had said this, the rest of the court agreed that this problem was too hard to …show more content…
In earlier times, people were separated by great distances and came into contact with each other only in unusual circumstances. Today, however, modern technology has dramatically increased the probability of transcultural contact. Just by opening up the morning paper we step beyond the limits of our daily lives and establish contact with the problems faced by other people from varying cultural circles and groups. As a rule, we understand these events only to the extent that we are used to them from our own way of thinking. We easily tend to criticize, laugh at other people, or damn them for their alleged backwardness, naiveté, brutality, or incomprehensible lack of …show more content…
In my experience, I have found that a particular situation has developed in which transcultural problems are partially expressed clearly and openly, but also partly sublimated and finely differentiated under the surface of daily interaction. I am speaking here of the marriage between people of two different cultures.
The transcultural world of work, alongside the private sphere and transcultural politics, is growing in importance, regardless of whether foreign workers find employment in a country or if the country "exports" such laborers. Based on the foreseen developments, one can anticipate that transcultural problems will pose one of the major challenges for the
EAST-WEST-CONCEPT IN FAMILY THERAPY
ABOUT THE COURAGE TO RISK A TEST
A king put his court to a test for an important post. Powerful and wise men stood around him in great numbers.
''You wise men," said the king, "I have a problem, and I want to see who of you is in a position to solve it."
He led the men to a huge door, bigger than anyone had ever seen. The king explained, "Here you see the biggest and heaviest door in my kingdom. Who among you can open it?"
Some of the courtiers just shook their heads. Others, who were counted among the wise men, looked at the door more closely but admitted they could not do it. When the wise men had said this, the rest of the court agreed that this problem was too hard to …show more content…
In earlier times, people were separated by great distances and came into contact with each other only in unusual circumstances. Today, however, modern technology has dramatically increased the probability of transcultural contact. Just by opening up the morning paper we step beyond the limits of our daily lives and establish contact with the problems faced by other people from varying cultural circles and groups. As a rule, we understand these events only to the extent that we are used to them from our own way of thinking. We easily tend to criticize, laugh at other people, or damn them for their alleged backwardness, naiveté, brutality, or incomprehensible lack of …show more content…
In my experience, I have found that a particular situation has developed in which transcultural problems are partially expressed clearly and openly, but also partly sublimated and finely differentiated under the surface of daily interaction. I am speaking here of the marriage between people of two different cultures.
The transcultural world of work, alongside the private sphere and transcultural politics, is growing in importance, regardless of whether foreign workers find employment in a country or if the country "exports" such laborers. Based on the foreseen developments, one can anticipate that transcultural problems will pose one of the major challenges for the