Intercultural Hermeneutics & the Limits of Corporate Cross-Cultural Training

Although an adaptation mindset of the individual enables significant cultural bridging across diverse viewpoints, roadblocks develop related to actionable intercultural growth and intolerance in group settings. The key to intercultural transitions starts with the self, and gravitates to the self-other relationship. Gadamer's context of interpretation and historical consciousness bridges human understanding and defines the achievement of integrity in collaborative environments. Through the comprehension of the self, we develop improved encounters with the other that allow for a commonality of horizons and holistic expressions. Gadamer's refinement of the hermeneutic circle and iterative focus of new understanding provide a model for intercultural transitions across group dynamics. Through Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, I will demonstrate a model for succession across intercultural awareness. Using the hermeneutic circle, we will define a method of intercultural interpretation that ceaselessly moves between individual cultures and clustered cultural groups.