So In a real life setting lets say a black man and a white man work together. The white person might want to try and relate to or connect with his co-worker so he greets him with the N word ending in -A. This might cause huge problems while the white guy might think he is being cool and friendly, his co-worker sees it as him trying to be jokingly racist or something in that way and may take huge offense to what he just said. I feel like a line like that should never be crossed until there is verbal confirmation beforehand about what can and can’t be said or do and can’t be done. And I feel like that's the solution to a lot of problems. Too many assumptions and not enough communication and respect on both sides of the spectrum. With that, a lot of our problems can be stopped before hand.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Cultural Diversity
From this past Week 14 reading talking about cross cultural diversity, there was one quote about cultural misunderstanding that was really important to me. “Culturally determined differences in values, beliefs and assumptions cause... problems for conducting business across cultures. First, people can easily misunderstand each other. Using the same words or gestures, members of different cultures can mean very different things” (Pg. 140). This is very frequent and happens all the time. Now sometimes people do this to others with the intent to offend or hurt them. But more often than not it is often just a misunderstanding or a miscommunication. For example, a big topic of debate is about the use of the N word. Whether it ends in -ER to be racist towards them or ending in -A to be seen as more of a friend term, Some people of the black community feel as if only they can say it. While other don’t mind if other minorities use. But specifically when it comes to black and white people, there is a big line. When black people say it amongst themselves, it is a term like friend, nothing derogatory about it. Yet if a white person says it, there are major problems because of the history of that word being used to oppress black people.
So In a real life setting lets say a black man and a white man work together. The white person might want to try and relate to or connect with his co-worker so he greets him with the N word ending in -A. This might cause huge problems while the white guy might think he is being cool and friendly, his co-worker sees it as him trying to be jokingly racist or something in that way and may take huge offense to what he just said. I feel like a line like that should never be crossed until there is verbal confirmation beforehand about what can and can’t be said or do and can’t be done. And I feel like that's the solution to a lot of problems. Too many assumptions and not enough communication and respect on both sides of the spectrum. With that, a lot of our problems can be stopped before hand.
So In a real life setting lets say a black man and a white man work together. The white person might want to try and relate to or connect with his co-worker so he greets him with the N word ending in -A. This might cause huge problems while the white guy might think he is being cool and friendly, his co-worker sees it as him trying to be jokingly racist or something in that way and may take huge offense to what he just said. I feel like a line like that should never be crossed until there is verbal confirmation beforehand about what can and can’t be said or do and can’t be done. And I feel like that's the solution to a lot of problems. Too many assumptions and not enough communication and respect on both sides of the spectrum. With that, a lot of our problems can be stopped before hand.
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