Exploring Diversity

EXPLORING DIVERSITY.

I've never heard that there are different views of cultural diversity.
Diversity is not only different cultures or languages, race, sexual orientation, religions, ideologies or beliefs; diversity refers to what makes a group of people similar o different from each other (individual, groups).
There are also other views that are as interesting as the ones mentioned before.
-The parochial view, for example, is "blind" to the existence of cultural diversity. Parochial see their way of doing things as the only possible way.
-The ethnocentric view, in contrast to the parochial view, accepts that cultural diversity exists, but there is only one that is superior. The question will be ¿which one?
-Finally there is the synergistic view that says that although there are many cultures there is no a superior one.

Culture can affect in big way businesses, you must be aware of differences in order to lead to a success or in the worst scenario to a failure; people even in the same country are different.

In order to understand easily diversity you must take into account these competences: Flexibility, resourcefulness, tolerance for ambiguity, vision, cultural self-awareness, cultural consciousness, multicultural leadership.

We also need to develop a cultural intelligence, in order to be able to manage a different situation that involves different kind of people, it also gives you a cultural background of the people, it helps you to interact more easily with others and understand them, you must open your mind and be sure that everybody is different and you don’t have to agree but you must respect it.