Cultural appreciation creates growth, innovation, and bliss for all

Cheng Wang was born in the year of the “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in China and raised during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. During those years, knowledge was considered useless, and schools were mostly closed. By heeding the highest call of the times, he became an “Educated Youth,” sent to a secluded village in Inner Mongolia to receive re-education.

Cheng went from no secondary education in Mao’s era to becoming a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cincinnati, a Principal Member of Tech Staff at AT&T, and an award-winning author. A young communist ideologue morphs into an astute cross-cultural observer.

Cheng Wang is available for interviews and speaking engagements on the following topic:

• • Why do people often fall for the black-or-white fallacy when gray is the most common reality?
  • Why do we side against each other with one idea or another, an idea that has been boiled down to one simple word that ends in “-ism”?
  • Why do people often fall for labels (social, political, or otherwise) as a substitute for critical thinking? Do all these short-hand names inform or distort the truth?
  • If more wealth in a society, even science breakthroughs, cannot help solve the social dilemma, which prove to be true, what hope do we have?
  • Why people (even societies) become increasingly obsessed with race and identity? Can’t we see each other simply as human beings, each with distinctive traits and personalities?
  • If a better understanding of different cultures can directly tackle racism, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness, how can we get there?

       The wall comes down around the globe now (despite the fact some people would try to do the opposite). To succeed in today’s global economy as a person or country, sharpening our cultural agility is a prerequisite. But what does it take to achieve this?

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