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'Despite the diversity policies in the workplace, there’s still a gap between theory and reality.... I'm still that bloody foreigner who stole someone’s job.'
outraged millions of people, not just in the US, but across the world. I watched the video on Twitter and grieved for him, and I still do today.
There’s always a slight air of animosity when I’m in a boardroom with the UK’s best community program builders. Perhaps someone like me, an Asian girl with whimsical trousers and radical openness, who did not graduate from Oxbridge and can’t put on a poker face or a stiff upper lip, would not be able to match the pitch of the alpha employee.
Does my experience with microaggressions resonate with you, in the Philippines or abroad? I bet it does. And unconsciously, you may even be the aggressor too. Let’s all be part of the global protest. To be silent is to be complicit. It might be difficult these times to march on the streets, but we must not stop calling out the aggressors that perpetuate bigotry, ignorance, and inequality in our communities.
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