PATCHED-UP

     Are you Choking Communities?    How do you view and speak about otherness, when in angst, burnout or culture shock? Unknown or hidden prejudice easily comes to the surface when pressure builds up in Intercultural settings.     Southern hemisphere residents reference colonialism when faced with any form of presumptuous and condescending superiority. Some expats , in asserting their presumed superior paradigms , refer derogatorily to ‘inner city’ or ‘third world’ paradigms.     I once heard a tired and frustrated Caucasian missionary talk of ‘ Negroids ’ in Africa.  Though venting in anger, her desire to put them in ‘their place’ was evident . I doubt she was aware of dominionism’s effect on her worldview and the cognitive dissonance lived out.     This ‘power over’ approach is exhibited when academics refer to lack of training to "Band-Aid" dilemmas while skilled but nonacademic experts ...