leaders see the world first as the people and then as they themselves see it, but these do not provide a bridge for communication between cultures, nor a framework to compare cultures. By learning to live deeply in two or more cultures, people learn to construct metacultural grids, or analytical frameworks that are outside any one specific culture. This “etic” view of an outside observer enables bicultural people such as missionaries to translate between cultures and languages, and to compare them.
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