Chapter 5 – CULTURAL PREDISPOSITIONS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS

This chapter addresses the cultural predispositions involved in culturally diverse multinational military operations. The core of cultural predispositions is composed of explicit and tacit assumptions and understandings, as well as other cognitive processes, including ways of thinking commonly held by a group of people, or a particular configuration of assumptions and understandings that is distinctive to a group. These assumptions and understandings serve as guides to acceptable and unacceptable perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They are learned and passed on to new members of the group through psychosocial processes and interactions.