Talk about reinvention. From 30 year old accusations that he preached devil worship (with subliminal messages in his ‘records’ if you played them backwards) to The Osbournes, to my 8 year old singing “I am Iron Man…running over children in my mini-van,” from the back seat of the car on the way to soccer practice,…
DetailsProject Implicit may show you that you have unconscious bias (duh?) and now a new study underway will “research the effects of unconscious racial bias on decision-making and develop strategies to support decision-making based on consciously held American values rather than on racial anxiety and stereotypes.” The projet’s founder is john powell (this is like the blog…
DetailsPhoto 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.
DetailsI 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…
DetailsPhylicia 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…
DetailsIs 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…
DetailsNotice 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…
DetailsHave you ever seen the dinosaur in the United Terminal at O’Hare in Chicago? Depending on your opinion, THEY might be crazy, as in “what the hell were THEY thinking” putting a dinosaur in an airport, or perhaps THEY are helpful, as in, “thank goodness THEY put a dinosaur here to entertain my child for…
DetailsThat is me and Jorge, a flight attendant with United Airlines, and the photo was taken by fellow flight attendant Gina, next to the Brachiosaurus in Terminal 1 at O’Hare, following a flight back from Puerto Rico last week. I was on my way back from a conference regarding the influence of culture on…
DetailsI have not much more to say about the new Jewish American Girl Historical Doll, Rebecca Rubin, that hasn’t already been said (although it is interesting to think-I didn’t realize all the other dolls weren’t Jewish) but it is notable that programming was created to connect the new doll to the Lower Eastside Tenement…
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