This bias may or may not be intended. Even when intended, it may not be explicitly stated by the seminar leader, hoping instead to bring change in a Trojan horse. So, awareness-based training may actually backfire. It may maintain the very power imbalance that it seeks to alter. In spite of these factors, let's grant that information about cultural differences is presented, and that it is learned.
Awareness is achieved.
Too often, trainees are left in the dilemma of the automobile mechanic who knows how to fix the problem, but lacks the tools to apply her knowledge. Tools that are equally powerful, no matter whose hands are at the controls. Tools that make no value judgment, explicitly or implicitly, about whose side of a difference is more right. Tools that work. It empowers individuals of any ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, and of either gender, to initiate dialogue in search of common ground with others.