Other Esteem: Meaningful Life in a Multicultural Society

First published in 2000. Several researchers have found that self-esteem is definitely not the cure all solution to our social ills. On the contrary, promoting self-esteem may produce negative consequences. Excessive promotion of the self may be the basis for various forms of discrimination in our modern, multicultural society. It takes others to know the self and the self needs others to succeed in life. Self-esteem is incomplete without other-esteem.

Other Esteem is a creative, unique, and...