Reflection on Diversity

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Reflection on Diversity Cultural Diversity in the Professions SOC 350 1.Explore a time when you felt like "other"—when you were made to feel invisible, excluded, or too visible. I chose to write about the time when I felt like “other,” the reason why I chose this one was because I feel like this all the time at work or at home. Now I know I should be feeling like this at home but with a big family like mine sometimes my family can exclude me on certain things. As for work since I first started my boss always excluded me from certain things because I didn’t join her clique. Since I never joined her clique she always excluded me from doing certain job duties and would give it to someone else who did join her clique. What I mean when I say join her clique is that I didn’t want to join a group that all they did was talk bad a people and how they did they job, I just decided to stay out of that and try to do my best at my job and because of not joining her clique she excluded me from other job duties which made me look that I wasn’t doing my best at my job which I was. Now although that neither of the two people that were in her clique or no longer there, my boss sometimes still tends to exclude me from doing certain job duties but when she really needs me to bail her out in certain situations she doesn’t look bad to everyone else. At first when all this was happening I just thought it was because of who I made friends with but now looking back at it 7 years later I think she had a problem with because I was Hispanic which I didn’t understand because her husband is Hispanic, and the other two that were in her clique who she never excluded from certain job duties were White. I wouldn’t call her racist because her husband is Hispanic and her kids are also half Hispanic, I would just say that she preferred the two white girls to do certain jobs. To this day
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