Barry has little tolerance for people from the South because he thinks all Southerners are slow-witted. Ann is a new employee at his firm, who recently moved to New York City from the South. Barry assumes he and Ann won’t be friends because she’s likely not very smart since she’s from the South. Which term best reflects Barry’s view toward Ann?

With more than a third of American children and adolescents overweight, you would think that Mattel’s slender Barbie doll would be a good role model for little girls. Not so, according to some critics. If Barbie was a real woman, she would have less than 17 percent body fat, a neck too thin to hold her head up, a waist too small to house a full liver and intestines, and ankles and feet too tiny to walk. One group of researchers estimated the likelihood of a woman having Barbie’s body at one in 100,000. Yet some women strive for impossible bodies, with more than 20 million suffering from eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Other research has shown that 40 to 60 percent of pre-adolescent girls are concerned about their weight, and almost 70 percent of elementary-age girls who read magazines say the pictures of thin models influence their perceptions of an ideal weight. Statistics like these cause consumer advocacy groups such as the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood…

Which is a central part of successful diversity management. A. Culture B. Service C. Transformation D. Inclusion

How does your cultural profile compare with that of others (spouse, friends, classmates)? Could the seeds of conflict and misunderstanding grow from any cultural differences with them?