Getting a different view

It might only be two weeks into the semester but I'm seeing the potential for an unexpected benefit of taking Career Development and Multicultural Counseling during the same semester.  Sometimes when I am recalling information from the text of either course, the facts from both merge.  If I had taken Career development earlier in my coursework, I might have formed opinions of the topics from the perspective of my life experiences. I might have neglected the influence that the larger social system has on every aspect of our lives, including work. Those who associate with a minority group are too often handicapped by majority social values.  The types of jobs available to them, the atmosphere of the workplace, and average wage, for example, are influenced by the entire span of our culture's history. To only consider counseling techniques and potential client needs from my spot in the world, would be shortsighted and culturally insensitive. No client will find positive change with a therapist who has no sense of how their social orientation differs from people of infinite variety of backgrounds.