Conclusion

The work on the book is finished, and as I sit here contemplating what we have accomplished, many thoughts rush through my mind. Foremost, because I am first of all a teacher, is the question of whether or not we accomplished what we set out to do. Actually, as the editor I had several purposes. First of all, I did not want to deal with ethics as an abstract subject matter—something which required no personal response or feeling of responsibility on the part of teachers and students using our book in a classroom setting, or for that matter, on the part of anyone who would read it. Since I am really not sure how anyone can adequately study human interactions, or more specifically intercultural and international communication, from an uninvolved, supposedly objective, outsider's point of view, that orientation was one of the bases for bringing together the chapters you have read.