BUSI 1020U Chapter Notes -Visible Minority, Cultural Diversity, Contact Sign
Document Summary
Our ability to communicate flexibly and sensitively with others is a necessary for our personal and professional success. Multicultural awareness: makes sound economic, ethical, and legal sense. Our culture is a learned set of assumptions that shape our perceptions of the world and of appropriate values, norms, attitudes, and behaviours. Perceptions about gender, age, and social class are culturally based, as are our ideas about: race, ethnicity, religious practices, sexual orientation, physical appearance and ability, regional and national characteristics. Communication difficulties arise because we take our cultural behaviours for granted, and because we assume they are normal . If it continues, by 2017 canada will have over 22% of canada"s population foreign-born, 1/5 will be members of a visible minority: south asian and chinese immigrants are two largest of canada"s visible minority population. Immigrants to canada are essential for business productivity.
