How is diversity training different from multicultural, cross-cultural, and race relations training?
Multicultural training focuses on educating people to understand and appreciate cultural differences. Diversity training, from the DTUI perspective, focuses on building community rather than pointing out how people are different. Appreciation of differences is important, but it is not considered the highest priority competency. The abilities to make others comfortable and included are most important, no matter how much you know about their culture. Cross-cultural training focuses on educating people to manage themselves in other countries or as a minority in another cultural group. DTUI provides knowledge and skills to manage cultural differences that exist in one’s own country and in others. Diversity also includes gender, sexual preference, religion, and other types of diversity that are not central in cross-cultural training. Race relations training focuses on educating people to understand and appreciate racial differences, and helping different races get along. Race refers to skin
