ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides some guidelines for practitioners who try to have conversations across racial and cultural divides. It is possible to see speech or action in a wider context that also includes all possible things that were not said or acted upon. The work of Derrida and Bakhtin have been influential in highlighting that the thing said acquires its meaning from its relation to "the things not said". The author wants to emphasize the distinction between a dialogue between people of different races and a dialogue between people who have had different experiences based on race. In order to create dialogue between people who have had different experiences based on race and cultural differences, practitioners need to explore some important aspects of dialogical process. Power is a vexed issue. When society allocates power, wealth, and status to certain positions, while they do indeed derive their meanings from the existence of the "other", they are difficult to relinquish.
