Communication between persons of differing cultural backgrounds can be hindered by culturally-conditioned assumptions that they make about each other's cognitions. An exercise was designed to reduce this effect through increased cultural self-awareness. It involves participants in analyzing video recordings of staged "excerpts" from intercultural dialogues that contain subtle manifestations of cultural influence, while noncultural influences are being varied from excerpt to excerpt. In each sequence the cultural influence is a common element gradually brought into focus. (Author)