What Went Wrong With the Dialogue Between Cultures?

Cultural diversity in and of itself has value, and yet cultures continue to clash about which cultural practices work best for the world. Mutual respect for differences, along with language that can address those differences, is required in a civil world, argues author Traugott Schoefthaler. More than a billion Muslims throughout the world remain frustrated, questioning why Western values often trump Islamic values in international settings. International dialogue must recognize and analyze ongoing feelings of superiority or inferiority among cultures, while working to eliminate the problems that come with cognitive dissonance, or the tension of holding conflicting thoughts in mind at once. – YaleGlobal