Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World

Hazel Rose Markus

ISBN 10: 0142180939 / ISBN 13: 9780142180938

Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2014

About this Item

"If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book." --Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind   Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners? Can women rocket up the corporate ladder without knocking off the men? How can poor kids get ahead when schools favor the rich? As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting our multicultural worlds, Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner reveal how we can leverage our differences to mend the rifts in our workplaces, schools, and relationships, as well as on the global stage. Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142180939
• ISBN 13: 9780142180938
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"Clash! explains some of the most bedeviling cultural divides in our workplaces and communities. It's mandatory reading for teachers, managers, and parents who want to raise their kids to succeed in a multicultural world." - Chip Heath, coauthor of Decisive and Switch
 
As the world gets smaller, people from different backgrounds are colliding like never before. Leading cultural psychologists Hazel Markus and Alana Conner reveal how a single culture clash - the clash of independence and interdependence - ignites both global hostilities and daily tensions between regions, races, genders, classes, religions, and organizations. Markus and Conner then show how we can leverage both independence and interdependence to mend the rifts in our communities, workplaces, and schools.

Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

About the Author

Hazel Rose Markus, PhD is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Alana Conner, PhD, is an experimental cultural psychologist, science communicator, and former senior editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.