I fully agree. I refer here to Dr Fons Trompenaars' work on cultural factors in international business.
The first step is to "Know yourself", to become fully aware of your own cultural bias and beware of cultural stereotyping. Next you build a systematic understanding of cultural differences in order to avoid mistakes: what is the same and what is different from the other tell us who we are. Through this process, you increase the level of awareness of your own cultural perspective (or bias).
The second step follows naturally and is about Respect, through authentic appreciation of cultural differences.
The third step is Reconciliation, which is to build a "high-ground" path to reconciliation of cultural differences without crushing any of them.
This process takes a lot of "EQ" and resolve to achieve success.