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Someone needs to keep the bourgeoisie preaching to a minimum.
When then-presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to make a young trans-gendered person an advisor in her administration, during one particularly rousing campaign stop, Warren had the right idea.
Having different perspectives weigh-in to improve the overall perspective of an organization is brilliant.
Companies, corporations, organizations, schools; entities in the U.S. and around the world are always grappling with the newly discovered- for some- world of multiculturalism and the global economy.
International companies have long struggled with these growing pains as they’ve entered emerging markets over the past decades. Cultural literacy is something they teach in business schools these days. Because it's important.
For instance, if a U.S. company is organizing a retreat for its American employees, everyone gets their own private room in the hotel.
Of course they do, right?
But if a U.S. company is organizing a retreat for its employees in a South Asian market, some of those employees might prefer to share a room with a co-worker or even two.