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	<title>Comments on: Are Whites Afraid to Communicate With Blacks at Work?</title>
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		<title>By: Luke Visconti</title>
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		<dc:creator>Luke Visconti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;strong&gt;I don&#039;t think you understand my point. In America, up until the 1990s, corporate culture was run by returning World War II officers (and people trained directly by them) who were led by senior officers (men, not women) whose backgrounds were in the small elite who attended college in America before the war. Yes, many officers were newly minted in the buildup, but the leadership&#039;s roots were in pre-war industrialization, whose culture was driven by the wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon &quot;aristocracy.&quot;

This group enacted Prohibition (teetotaler Protestants in Congress reacting to &quot;drinking&quot;-class European immigrants) and stopped immigration in the mid-1920s. They were exclusive. A good example of the group was Woodrow Wilson, the worst bigot to ever occupy the White House. It&#039;s important to note that prior to World War II, most Americans were employed on the farm and very few attended college (compared to today). The mass mechanization for the war resulted in most returning veterans being able to find industrial work, and the GI Bill funded college education for many people previously economically and socially excluded. But most companies still operate with a total disregard for the outcome of their corporate culture, which, by measurement, results in a leadership that is almost exclusively white, Christian, heterosexual, male and with no disabilities.

In my experience, most (yes, most) corporations are run in the style of this white leadership, which is driven to be exclusive and not hospitable to people not like them. I feel this is the reason why there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tobyelwin.com/the-cost-of-culture-a-50-turnover-of-the-fortune-500/&quot; title=&quot;The cost of culture, a 50% turnover of the Fortune 500&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;50 percent turnover in the Fortune 500 list&lt;/a&gt; over a 10-year period.&lt;/strong&gt; Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>I don&#8217;t think you understand my point. In America, up until the 1990s, corporate culture was run by returning World War II officers (and people trained directly by them) who were led by senior officers (men, not women) whose backgrounds were in the small elite who attended college in America before the war. Yes, many officers were newly minted in the buildup, but the leadership&#8217;s roots were in pre-war industrialization, whose culture was driven by the wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon &#8220;aristocracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>This group enacted Prohibition (teetotaler Protestants in Congress reacting to &#8220;drinking&#8221;-class European immigrants) and stopped immigration in the mid-1920s. They were exclusive. A good example of the group was Woodrow Wilson, the worst bigot to ever occupy the White House. It&#8217;s important to note that prior to World War II, most Americans were employed on the farm and very few attended college (compared to today). The mass mechanization for the war resulted in most returning veterans being able to find industrial work, and the GI Bill funded college education for many people previously economically and socially excluded. But most companies still operate with a total disregard for the outcome of their corporate culture, which, by measurement, results in a leadership that is almost exclusively white, Christian, heterosexual, male and with no disabilities.</p>
<p>In my experience, most (yes, most) corporations are run in the style of this white leadership, which is driven to be exclusive and not hospitable to people not like them. I feel this is the reason why there is <a href="http://www.tobyelwin.com/the-cost-of-culture-a-50-turnover-of-the-fortune-500/" title="The cost of culture, a 50% turnover of the Fortune 500" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">50 percent turnover in the Fortune 500 list</a> over a 10-year period.</strong> Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc</p>
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		<title>By: Glynis Ross-Munro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Glynis Ross-Munro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Part of white culture in some workplaces is to be cold to everyone.&quot;

I cannot agree. Does this wide, sweeping assumption suggests that &quot;white&quot; culture is some kind of American culture? 

&quot;Part&quot; and &quot;some&quot; allow a logical escape, but then one might say that part of any culture in some workplaces might be to be cold to everyone - why the racial factor?

The world is a diverse place, and people might be New Zealanders or Italians, men and women, gay and straight, artists and bankers, rural and urban, younger or older...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Part of white culture in some workplaces is to be cold to everyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>I cannot agree. Does this wide, sweeping assumption suggests that &#8220;white&#8221; culture is some kind of American culture? </p>
<p>&#8220;Part&#8221; and &#8220;some&#8221; allow a logical escape, but then one might say that part of any culture in some workplaces might be to be cold to everyone &#8211; why the racial factor?</p>
<p>The world is a diverse place, and people might be New Zealanders or Italians, men and women, gay and straight, artists and bankers, rural and urban, younger or older&#8230;</p>
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