Global Transcultural Training

To say anything meaningful about 8 billion people, you must generalize. But you must remember that you are not making a complete statement about anyone. Similarly, to say anything meaningful, you must address the members of groups and speak about what they are experiencing. At the same time, you must be fair to everyone in every group, in our generation and generations to come—a tall order.

This preamble is essential when discussing Globalization, which notably divides national populations into winners and losers. The consequent damage to traditional solidarities threatens our ability to conserve the civilized achievements, such as they are, that have brought us hopes intact into the first quarter of the 21st Century. 

I have asked you to consider this perspective on the subject for one reason. On occasion in this course, I will address US-Americans about what they are experiencing due to their "accidents of birth" in the USA and into different socio-economic statuses. I trust the non-US-American readers to formulate the argument they would make to other national audiences.  (Please share your thoughts in the "National versus Global" discussion.)

Yet ultimately, as you will read, Global Agility is not about Globalization, the Global System, Globalism, or our nationalities. It is about what we can do as individuals living in that Big Picture. 

Csaba Toth of Global DISC & ICQ holds us to a richer approach to “Others,” both “foreign” and domestic. An approach based on our membership in dozens of groups: