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ccm911 wrote:
Sides are not really the issue, as you well know. There is no side, there are only issues and opinions.
My points are workplace observations. And I'll extend it to other more common topics, maybe to my own dis-benefit.
About 6 years or so ago companies started very aggressively pushing diversity training. I've taken these courses a dozen times because I change clients that often. Diversity training teaches tolerance -- and tolerance isn't the real issue that needs to be solved. The real issue is understanding.
Tolerance is Muslim people at work can go to a special room and pray East to Mecca a couple of times per day. That is acceptable in the American workplace, and acceptable to their religion.
That isn't understanding.
My point is better understood with male/female relationships in the workplace. Companies have had classes to tell us that men and women are the same, male and female are equal. Equal sure, the same, never.
I can say "Julie your hair is pretty today" but I can't say "Chris your hair is pretty today"
Men and women will never be the same, just like people growing up here will never be like people growing up in India.
Just like you'd never answer to your wife "yes you look fat in those pants" you'd also be careful to tell someone from India "you need to get this done by Monday" not it would "be a good idea to get it done by Monday". These ambiguous messages mean different things to people of different cultures.
On any given day I work from home, talking to people in Kalamazoo MI (real place actually), NYC, Sandwich UK, Brussels, Costa Rica and India. That's every day! Communication is an issue, and that isn't racism!
(edited for poor spelling
Quote:Darren, I think you are a relly cool person.
But in an earlier thread you cried about the treatment of black folks being treated so unfairly. You implied that racism is bad, and that while growing up, you felt the sting of said racism.
So why are you now practicing the same sort of prejudice towards those of Indian descent?
If you are going to join in our banter, please do not talk out of both sides of your mouth.
Are you saying it is OK to bash Indians, but not our Black bretheren?
Please take a side.
Sides are not really the issue, as you well know. There is no side, there are only issues and opinions.
My points are workplace observations. And I'll extend it to other more common topics, maybe to my own dis-benefit.
About 6 years or so ago companies started very aggressively pushing diversity training. I've taken these courses a dozen times because I change clients that often. Diversity training teaches tolerance -- and tolerance isn't the real issue that needs to be solved. The real issue is understanding.
Tolerance is Muslim people at work can go to a special room and pray East to Mecca a couple of times per day. That is acceptable in the American workplace, and acceptable to their religion.
That isn't understanding.
My point is better understood with male/female relationships in the workplace. Companies have had classes to tell us that men and women are the same, male and female are equal. Equal sure, the same, never.
I can say "Julie your hair is pretty today" but I can't say "Chris your hair is pretty today"
Men and women will never be the same, just like people growing up here will never be like people growing up in India.
Just like you'd never answer to your wife "yes you look fat in those pants" you'd also be careful to tell someone from India "you need to get this done by Monday" not it would "be a good idea to get it done by Monday". These ambiguous messages mean different things to people of different cultures.
On any given day I work from home, talking to people in Kalamazoo MI (real place actually), NYC, Sandwich UK, Brussels, Costa Rica and India. That's every day! Communication is an issue, and that isn't racism!
(edited for poor spelling