Culture Club
This is the totality of ideas, attitudes, opinions and beliefs of a particular group of people.
What is culture?
A general pattern or tendency to think a certain way.
What is bias?
These verbal slights or indiginities are often referred to as Death By A Thousand Cuts.
What is a microagression?
Using these 3 P’s help combat microaggressions at work.
What is Prepare Prompt Practice?
Developed by the Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, this set of tasks and activities that help you identify and eliminate harm that can be caused by bias.
What is a bias cleanse?
This is one of the 12 elements of culture.
Language, Manners of interacting, Thoughts, Values, Expected behaviors, Practices, Relationships, Customs, Roles, Rituals, Courtesies, Communication
An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group.
What is a stereotype?
This “health” can be negatively impacted by microaggressions.
What is mental health, physical health, emotional health, psychological health?
When you “See” a microaggression, ask the following to clarify intent.
What is “When you said _________, what did you mean by that?”
Listening to podcasts, reviewing journal articles or and conducting exit interviews are all examples of this type of bias cleanse intervention.
What is Education?
These are 3 of the cultural components decided for THIS group.
Negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority.
What is prejudice?
The following statement is NOT a microaggression:
“I am open and affirming to all people.”
“I don’t see color”
What is “I am open and affirming to all people.”
The first words we “Say” if we commit a microaggression.
What is “_________, I realize that I may have hurt you. How can I begin to repair that?”
To help cleanse our bias, methods, techniques and interventions that create opportunities — both big & small — to actually Experience diversity in our lives can include:
What is Talk with Strangers, Watch Documentaries, Stereotype Smashing Events?
This is how culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
What is learning?
A type of implicit bias where we subconsciously give some groups of people positive attributes & others negative attributes.
What is the ‘Halos and Horns Effect’?
The following statement is NOT a microaggression:
“So, where are you REALLY from?”
“So, what does a typical day look like for your family?
What is “So, what does a typical day look like for your family?”
When we “Hear” a microagression, this prompt separates intent from impact.
What is “I don’t think you realize it, but when you __________ (comment/behavior), I feel it may have been hurtful/offensive to_________ because___________.”
The characteristic that helps build the capacity to understand and feel what another person is experiencing.
What is Empathy?
Cultural behavior, once learned, appears so natural that it is perceived as this.
What is instinctual or biological?
Ideas about difference often originate from 1 of these 6 places.
What is Family, Education, Personal Experiences, Media Influences, Peer Influences, Institutional Influences
The following statement is NOT a microaggression:
“Why is your daughter so white?”
“🙊 (keep it to yourself)?”
What is “🙊 (keep it to yourself)?”
This person has responsibility for your education on microaggressions.
Who is me?
This type of intervention places us in new, unfamiliar situations which are critical for growth.
What is exposure?