The TCB model represents an idealized process. Enslavement, colonization, and
hegemony represent one-way processes that seek personal and unilateral benefit at
the expense of the other. Motives to engage in the TCB process may be the same or
they may be complementary, but both parties must continue to perceive a benefit in
following the rules and conventions of the hybridized identity.
To this extent, the TCB model encounters skepticism from those who believe that
nature always presents hierarchies and that self-interest always places the needs
and wishes of the self over those of another interactant. Given the belief in
hierarchies of power, those in power might fear any relinquishing of their authority.
Apart from its use as an ideal state toward which parties might aspire, TCB could be
made to work more effectively through the inputs offered by third parties to the
interaction. The prospect, of allowing third parties to influence the interpretation or
the course of TCB interactions, has not yet been explored in the literature.
Double-Emic Analysis
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