ABSTRACT
FRED Casmir’s essay emerges from a line of scholarly research on third-culture building and intercultural interaction (Adler, 1980; Doctoroff, 1977; Moran & Harris, 1982). Consistent with past research, Casmir argues that intercultural transactions can reach optimum effectiveness if the participants strive to develop third cultures: the commingling of both persons’ cultural backgrounds that produces a new and different, blended cultural experience. While Casmir argues that his models are nontraditional, they are actually quite similar to third-culture research articulated by other scholars, particularly synergy theorists.
