In my old job, I had a graduate engineer under me, who is indian.
At first, I really didn't like him. He was rude, stubborn, nakedly ambitious, rushed his work, refused to admit error and avoided design responsibility and a sense of ownership like the plague. In short, he violated a lot of my values.
As we worked together, I came to understand that most of these violations (to use your terminology) were culturally based. It was about pride, a determination to make something of himself and leadership, and some of it was about being young, and in a foreign country. That didn't make me any more comfortable with the issues, but it did let me see though them to to the principled and soft-hearted man underneath.
Of course, I still think that his values are inferior to my own. They wouldn't be my values if I didn't hold them as valuable.
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In my old job, I had a graduate engineer under me, who is indian.
At first, I really didn't like him. He was rude, stubborn, nakedly ambitious, rushed his work, refused to admit error and avoided design responsibility and a sense of ownership like the plague. In short, he violated a lot of my values.
As we worked together, I came to understand that most of these violations (to use your terminology) were culturally based. It was about pride, a determination to make something of himself and leadership, and some of it was about being young, and in a foreign country. That didn't make me any more comfortable with the issues, but it did let me see though them to to the principled and soft-hearted man underneath.
Of course, I still think that his values are inferior to my own. They wouldn't be my values if I didn't hold them as valuable.