There are basic and common needs that all human beings share. All students, interpreters and consumers are individuals.
All individuals proceed through racial and ethnic identity development processes.
All individuals need to understand, appreciate and accept their own identity before understanding others. Not all people from a racial or ethnic minority group have cultural information about their own group or others. All interpreters should be provided access to a common multi-cultural knowledge base but not be aware of their cultural and linguistic limitations. All interpreters need strategies for dealing with inter-cultural and intra cultural conflicts. All need to work together to develop and support a more diverse pluralistic sign language interpreting profession in the United States as a world model.