Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

participant-observer, a person will quite naturally develop a 
repertoire of intercultural interaction skills. And, when a 
person begins to move further along the continuum of cross-
cultural understanding and interaction, they will more 

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quickly put down ego-identity roots in the new host culture 
and feel more at ease with themselves and their 
surroundings. They will become happier and productive at 
work, at home or while moving about within the society at 
large. They will no longer be negatively affected by 
disconfirmed expectancies. They will understand more and 
be understood more by others. In short, they will have 
become bicultural individuals.