The interviewer is familiar with your hard skills from your resume, but soft skills are more difficult to gauge. Knowledge and experience are valuable, but the interviewer is responsible for ensuring you'll perform well under stress and get along with your fellow employees. This question gauges your level of comfort in working with others from backgrounds different than your own. Most leading companies in any industry understand that to foster innovation to compete in an ever-changing world, talent needs to be drawn across boundaries. This requires everyone within their organization to have a high degree of cultural competence. Your confidence while answering this question will demonstrate how well you'd fit into the culture of their brand.

Formulate your answer in a way that conveys you thrive in a team environment. Show that you are professional, flexible, and a friend to all. Speak sincerely about your open-mindedness and being a universally inclusive person. When discussing inclusion, demonstrate empathy and acceptance. On even the most inherently human level, we are all driven by the same basic needs and unifying experiences. Focus on the unifiers. Communicate clearly.