Multi-Diversity Training American business reflects its soc

In the aftermath of the so-called "Rodney King Riots" in Los Angeles last year, no leader - political, social, business or interest group - downplays the importance of multi-ethnic cooperation as a means for "keeping the peace." This is in belated acknowledgement of the fact that the previous eleven years - years corresponding to the Reagan-Bush Administrations in Washington - had brought public policy advancements in this field virtually to a halt. The "New Frontier" and "Great Society" policies of the 1960s introduced into the mainstream American consciousness concepts of multi-ethnic equality; the decade of the 1970s saw "affirmative action" programs striking down legal and organizational barriers to equal participation in the societal environment. But the psychological conversion from a racially/ethnically/culturally-divided nation into one where t

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am. It is a disturbing omission, however, and one that has the potential to seriously hamper the future of societal and academic tolerance for a culture largely viewed with ignorance and animosity by the Euro-Centric tradition. As a consequence of this type of omission, however, this study has been forced to examine studies made abroad in order to draw certain linguistic conclusions relative to multi-ethnic diversity training (Oksaar, 1982). British and Canadian readings have been fruitful sources for exploration into the interplay of language diversity (Brooks & Roberts, 1985; Rees, 1984; Steele, 1986); Asian studies have been employed to gain insight into the potential of that source of ethnic contribution (Brewster, 1987; Ward & Hewstone, 1985), although at least one such reading, Christopher Bagley's valuable examination of British, Japanese, Jamaican and Indian interrelations (1984), actually is a U. S.- based study. Taking into account the weak "blind spots" of previous research cited above, this study has found it necessary to widen some of its readings to bring in the multicultural concept of "pluralism" (Erickson, 1991)- albeit this term steps into the quicksand of the PC Wars and often finds negative criticism the me
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