COMMON GROUND
Their differences notwithstanding, these two professions do have something in common. Significantly, both are concerned with values. We have been portraying diversity practitioners as promoting alignment of U.S. citizens' behaviors with a certain set of values, and interculturalists as value aware but neutral as they enable businesspeople to fine-tune their behaviors for success abroad. A closer look reveals more complexity.
Diversity practitioners employ two perspectives on values: values as imperative and values as relative. The imperative values are a trio of bedrock U.S. values that impel the activism of diversity practitioners and anchor the behaviors with which these practitioners hope to align all citizens. This value trio ...
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