ABSTRACT
A common refrain in business circles is that the world of business has become more global and international. Yet it is not just that business has become more global—people have become more global. Exposure to other cultures occurs through extended travel, attending universities abroad, and having work assignments in other countries. Even those who have not traveled abroad are exposed to other cultures through TV, movies, and classwork. A few places in the world are intensely multicultural, due to either historic intersections of cultures (e.g., Hong Kong or Singapore) or high levels of migration (e.g., New York). In places like the U.S., more people each decade can no longer fit themselves into distinct ethnic categories, thinking of themselves as “mixed” white, black, and Asian (Goldstein & Morning, 2000). Some scholars discuss the development of a new “global” culture of people who are distinctly international (e.g. Anthias, 2001). In effect, cultural “diversity” has moved from being just a process of including different people on work teams or school classrooms to being a process that occurs within an individual (Bunderson & Sutcliffe, 2002; LaFromboise, Coleman, & Gerton, 1993).
