Before moving to a broader horizon, to a wider vision, the parties each assert their
own parochial ways of acting on the world. For this reason, a world event, or
anything that takes place outside the usual scope of one's own native heritage,
inherently gets pictured in a combination of two ways: by applying the native view of
the sending community, and by applying the native view of the receiving community.
Each community has its enculturated meanings for the event, as well as its sense of
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Emic = a ‘native’ of the culture. (As opposed to “Etic knowledge” which refers to generalizations
about human behavior that are considered universally true.)
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