When considering this text, the research team discerned directions, titles, and themes that would hold together chapters from various disciplines. The authors consist of educators, business leaders, a psychologist, cooks, and entrepreneurs. To write a textbook covering the differences, or similarities, between the Americas seemed daunting, but in so many ways became organically cohesive. To that end, we decided on the title of Common Ground, the differences that unite us. As each one of the authors has experience living and working in a country outside of their…