Some parallels can be drawn between this media resource and the Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC). For example, according to the Integrated Model of Racial Identity Development on p. 4, people of color who are in the stage of Internalization move toward complex views of their own and others' racial identities. This stage may overlap with Acceptance on the IDC. In Acceptance, people are aware of their own cultural identity and also accept that there are other valuable ways of perceiving the world. Similarly, in the Integrated Model, white people in the stage of Resistance tend to view racialized groups in binary terms that they judge, much like the orientation of Polarization on the IDC.

The summary notes that "Most of the frameworks carry the same few cautions. Not every person will necessarily go through every stage in a framework. Many of the authors specifically acknowledge that the stages might also be cyclical, that people might revisit different stages at different points in their lives."