Photo credit:  Gerald Herbert (from NPR and PR reports)
Let us never doubt the critical importance of any and all efforts, big or small, to combat prejudice and racism.  As the shooting today at the Holocaust Museum in DC confirms, both are still rampant.

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 I found this “Hu’s on First” exchange between Condoleezza Rice and George W. Bush on cross cultural marketer and international sales strategist Cindy King’s website.  She was using it as an example of why it’s important to “ask follow up questions to confirm mutual understanding.”
The video is funny in and of itself, and some (most-giving [...]

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Phylicia Rashad is currently starring in the role of Violet Weston, the mother in August:  Osage County, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by Tracy Letts, now on stage at the Music Box Theater in New York City. 
Felicia Lee writes in the New York Times article, “Mr. Richards said it was his idea to [...]

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Is this an example of White Privilege?
When I was in 8th Grade attending public school in a suburb of St. Louis, I got my class schedule and it indicated I had been placed in a remedial reading class.  I (age 13) went to the office, told the first person at the desk it was a mistake, and they changed [...]

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Notice anything different between me and Tracie?
Geert Hofstede’s work serves as the basis for much of intercultural communications theory, particularly as relates to communication between individuals of different nationalities.  Hofstede originally identified four dimensions of cultural difference:  individualism (versus collectivism), masculinity (versus femininity); power distance, and uncertainty avoidance, studying 70 countries by these dimensions of [...]

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