Attitudes towards cultural mindsets seem to vary when these are encountered in a professional setting. At times they even carry a negative undertone and are seen as things to be dealt with or worked around.
In a time when borders are fading and globalisation threatens to erase (to a certain degree) cultural identities, should we not be embracing cultural differences and thus the variety in mindsets? Is it not perhaps the lack of intercultural competences, which enable us to deal with such mindsets, that is the problem? Do we admire the global citizen in part because (s)he is sensitive to these mindsets and capable of working with them instead of be deterred by them?
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