Creating a multicultural environment..

Creating a multicultural environment is definitely a step in the right direction. However, I think that it’s more important to stop thinking in divisions. On the one hand you want to stop racism and create an environment where everybody has the same rights but on the other hand you admit that there is still a difference between people with another skin color by putting the focus on the fact that companies need to employ people with all kinds of cultures.

One of the most important factors to create a multicultural environment is to inform your workers about their multifarious backgrounds and cultures. The basic rule is that you need to understand the foreign culture and to admit the existence of differences between these cultures.

Secondly, it’s very important to respect the foreign culture. Finally, the participating workers should use their knowledge of their own culture to gain knowledge about the other cultures. Sometimes it’s enough to sacrifice something that is not too important for us, but it means a lot for another culture.

The main condition of a successful multicultural environment is the understanding, the respect and getting closer to the culture of foreign workers.

Laurence de Klerk Wolters