equivalent to acceptance. It only means that something won't necessarily be thrown out of the door upon initial contact. There are plenty of examples to show that foreign ideas/religion were NOT accepted upon initial contact.
I would say inclusiveness is akin to giving someone the benefit of the doubt. While i definitely do believe it is a useful philosophy, I do agree one can make it too inclusive without proper scrutiny. I speculate that in some cases, the introduction of foreign practices to Afrikans by other Afrikans (particularly those in the same group) caused the practiced to be less scrutinized because of natural group trust.
____________________________ "the real pyramids were built with such precision that you can't slide a piece of paper between two 4,000 lb stones, and have shafts perfectly aligned so that you can see a tiny aperture through dozens of these mammoth blocks