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Indira Diaz
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Industry/Career Expo Team Leader
05/08/20 at 12:46AM UTC (Edited)
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Cultural Awareness in the workplace

I am a immigrant and I think we can be more tolerant in the workplace the more aware we are of others. As a foreigner I like to embrace new traditions but, as well, I love to show mines. How important is for you? Do you think that this opens an unnecessary door in the office/workplace? I understand it is a thin line here. Can we expand enough to show empathy for others religions, believes, traditions, cultures, etc?

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Sarah Mayberry
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05/18/20 at 9:37PM UTC
While you do have to be careful sharing/asking about some cultural things, many large companies have Business Resource Groups that can help you safely share and learn. I'm a member of three groups (that I don't identify with) so that I can educate myself and be a better ally on workplace diversity.
Indira Diaz
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Industry/Career Expo Team Leader
05/20/20 at 9:27PM UTC
This is very nice. I do believe we might have, the idea of having a "Traveling the world" club has been rounding my mind for a while. I agree that can create a safe environment to share cultures and experiences.
Kimberly Ellsworth
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05/14/20 at 8PM UTC
Cultural awareness is necessary for inclusion in the workplace. It's so important to make sure everyone feels included and accepted at work so they can feel inspired to be and bring their best every day. Having worked on both diverse and also homogenous teams, it's important to have multiple paths for learning. Workshops and big events highlighting important topics are great, however they also place individuals who are sharing their culture in the place of teacher for their colleagues over and over again. That can become exhausting - doing your job + the emotional labor of teaching about your culture repeatedly. To balance that, I have always encouraged my colleagues to take an active role in their own learning. Google is free! By kickstarting their own knowledge gathering, they can turn around and have more in depth, engaging conversations with their colleagues and take their cultural awareness beyond a surface level understanding of a holiday or food into the lived experience of the people of that culture.
LEANNE TOBIAS
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05/13/20 at 5:02AM UTC
Indira, I agree with you. I suggest that you demonstrate your commitment to diversity positively by helping to launch events/programs that your employer would welcome. Best to strengthen your company to the benefit of all!
Linda Grace Solis
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion
05/12/20 at 1:59PM UTC
Indira, I hope we can expand enough to show empathy for all religions, beliefs, traditions, cultures, etc. I work in DEI at a medical school and our students are, for the most part, more empathetic and interested in these things than the faculty and staff are. It gives me hope. I create programming for faculty and staff in cultural humility, unconscious bias, etc. and I think it's making a difference. I personally find it very fulfilling to learn about the cultures and traditions of the people around me. I love building relationships and friendships across cultures. I hope upcoming generations will keep up their good work on making inclusion a part of the everyday.
Indira Diaz
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Industry/Career Expo Team Leader
05/14/20 at 1:44AM UTC
Hello Linda, my workplace is really diverse. I work in Embry-Riddle, an aeronautical university with a wide range of international students. I have to agree with you, faculty & staff is not that empathetic. I dont feel any kind of hostility and I love the fact that I speak Spanish with other spanish speakers and I enjoy when my Korean students talk themselves in their language but, from that to connect or create a cultural bonding is still a path to walk that I believe younger generation (millenials and Zs) are dealing way better than us (x'ers or baby boomers) I am having this idea of create a programming about it, do you mind to share any thoughts or topics with me?
Linda Grace Solis
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion
05/16/20 at 3:14AM UTC
The culture of this medical school is unique because it’s part of a faith-based university. We talk about everyone being fashioned in the image of God/Creator/All Knowing/Greater Power. This enables me to talk more freely about topics like compassion and humility in the realm of diversity, equity, and inclusion. I have a series of presentations that I call the DEI Basics. The series includes sessions on unconscious bias, cultural humility, and micro-messages. I provide tools about increasing self-awareness, mitigating unconscious biases, emotional intelligence, etc. so that faculty and staff walk away with something concrete they can do to make progress in these areas. I’ve found that none of these topics are “one and done” - for a lot of people, it requires lots of exposure to the topics and opportunities for reflection and discussion. I could talk about this stuff for eons. :)
Mindy Green
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05/11/20 at 11:25PM UTC
I agree with you. Not enough workplaces have a diversity and inclusion program. Maybe you can start a group at your work celebrating different cultures. When the offices open again, maybe host a pot luck with food from a different culture each month. Or, maybe decorate the break room with items from different backgrounds of people in the office. At the holiday, do a theme celebration of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa to help everyone learn about other ways to celebrate.
Indira Diaz
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Industry/Career Expo Team Leader
05/14/20 at 1:45AM UTC
Thanks for your ideas! Very helpful
Clydene H
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Passionately helping customers & succeed.
05/08/20 at 2:35AM UTC
I work for an international company, and I love hearing about their traditions, holidays, and festivals.

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