cutureneutral framework - an intro

CultureNeutral® Framework: An Introduction

“…we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s…”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

Diversity of Thought and Opinion

Don Lemon, CNN Commentator

Mo Ivory, Attorney, Atlanta B-103 Radio

Crystal Wright,

ConservativeBlackChick.com

Media Focused on “Race.”

But…

Fox News

The Differences Dilemma

• Actual Quote: “… more race and difference-conscious …”

• Diversity Concept: Late 1960s

• Focus sharpened after Bakke 1978, SCJ Lewis Powell Remarks• Peter Wood, “The Invention of A Concept”

• Value & Embrace Differences Since Then

• Priming Dilemma: No matter what, don’t think of …

Time Flies Like an Arrow

Fruit Flies Like a Banana

Priming Paralysis

“My DNA breaks down as follows: I’m 23% from Ghana, 17% from the British Isles, 15% from Cameroon, 12% Finnish, 11% Southern European, 7% Togo, 6% Benin, 5% Senegal and 4% Portuguese.”Vanessa WilliamsLos Angeles Times, April 27, 2013A Bundle of Differences

Primary HR Diversities Identity Parsing by Differences

1. Civilization/Culture (Familial, Community, Regional, National)

10. Race

2. Gender11. Orientation (Hetero, LGBTQIA…)

3. Ethnicity 12. Age (Generation)

4. Disability/Exceptionality 13. Language

5. Class (Building, Office, Shirt) 14. Social Status (Privilege/Power)

6. Education 15. Religion

7. Political/Ideological16. Conscious Choice (Preferences, Priming/Prejudice)

8. Talents (Baseline Aptitudes & Acquired Skills)

17. Critical Life Experience (e.g., Veteran/Civilian)

9. Personality Type18. Unconscious Bias(Stereotyping, Implicit Association, Neurology)

“To get the finest beef, you must nourish the

whole cow.”

“Diversity Tension” = Conflict‘The more intense the conflict (differences), the more we seek to cognitively simplify, the greater the likelihood of reducing the situation to a “type” for the purposes of cognitive resolution.’

Laurie Coltri, “Conflict Diagnosis and ADR”

Catalyst 2013 Census of Fortune 500:

“Still No Progress After Years of No Progress”

“…progress in the F500 remains flat…”

Catalyst Press Release 2/25/2014 NEW

YORK (December 10, 2013)

Ceilings: Glass & Bamboo,

Private Sector Desegregation From White Men

“Segregation index captures the percent of employees that would need to switch jobs in order to have equal representation across major occupational skill distinctions.”

Source: “Documenting Desegregation” Stainback & Tomaskovic-Devey (2013)

Obama Calls For Neutrality Rather Than Diversity

“If you’ve got the IRS

operating in anything

less than a neutral and

non-partisan way, then

that is outrageous…”

Tippecanoe County Clerk displaying a Swiss flag on desk.

“It was a… visual reminder to myself and the candidates that this is a neutral zone.”

- Christ Coffey

Neutrality Isn’t New

“Enables the provision of humanitarian aid in the midst of intense conflict…even war.”

The First American

Neutrality was

declared by George

Washington in 1793.

CultureNeutral® Keys:

#1 Culture

#2 Conflict

#3 Sovereignty

#4 Citizenship

#5 Neutrality

There is a chance that

cultural conflict will not

go away anytime soon.

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