Dina Hassan (asker) Mar 26, 2008:

More context The Development Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS), created by
Bennett [3], is such a model. It is intended to explain how people construe cultural difference and how this ability becomes more flexible with time. By construe, Bennett is referring to Kelly’s [16] constructivist view that experience is a function of how one assigns meaning to events that occur in their lives. It is not simply a matter of being present during some event
or set of events, but rather how those events are interpreted, encoded into memory, and later remembered. An underlying assumption of the DMIS is that as one’s ability to construe cultural differences evolves, intercultural competence also increases. According to Bennett, “it is the construction of reality as increasingly capable of accommodating cultural difference that constitutes development”