To have an ethnorelative mindset, means that you are able to understand a communication behavior from another persons cultural frame of reference. You are flexible in your mindset, alert to emotional states. That being said, I think in some respects it might be too idealistic to expect oneself and other to be completely enthorelative in intercultural contexts, because many people grow up in one set culture, and that culture becomes ingrained in who we are. So even when we are able to approach a intercultural meeting with a flexible mindset and alertness to emotional states, we still may not be able to completely remove ourselves from the culture that we have grown up in. We can become more attentive to other cultures, but we may never be completely
