ABSTRACT
The cross-cultural training materials described in this chapter (published in a second edition as Cushner and Brislin, 1996) were designed to be useful in a wide variety of orientation programs regardless of the countries in which people will live or the roles they will assume (e.g., businessperson, international student, diplomat). Further, the materials were designed to be applicable to training programs aimed at improving communication and facilitating interaction among members of different ethnic groups within any one country. Since the basic unit of these materials is the critical incident, and since the materials were designed following suggested guidelines for culture assimilator development (Fiedler, Mitchell, and Triandis, 1971; Albert, 1983), we are calling the result a “culture-general assimilator.”
