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Hints and Tips for Culturally Intelligent
Interaction
Lissa Schwander & Elisha Marr
Department of Sociology & Social Work
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Breakout Groups•Why are you here?
•Have you found yourself in (or witnessed) situations with students or co-workers where you feel that you have said something culturally insensitive OR have been the recipient of a culturally insensitive comment?
Make a list
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Microaggressions
Subtle, stunning, and often automatic exchanges in which the receiver is overlooked, under-respected, or devalued because of one’s group membership (e.g. race, gender, sexuality).
Paraphrased from Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D.
Teachers College, Columbia University
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Microaggressions
•We have been socialized into dominant cultural beliefs.
•Consequently we ALL have biases.
•Often invisible and unintentional.
• Implicit is as harmful as explicit.
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Microaggression ExamplesStereotypes: over-simplified generalizations made without acknowledgement of individual differences
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Microaggression ExamplesAlien in Own Land: Assumption that Asian and Latino Americans are foreign born.
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Microaggression ExamplesColorblindness: Minimization or avoidance of acknowledging racial differences.
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Microaggression ExamplesPathologizing Cultural Values/Communication Styles: The notion that values and communication styles of the dominant culture are the ideal.
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Microaggression ExamplesAscription of Intelligence or Talent: Assumption that a person has a certain level of intelligence or talent based on their perceived race.
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Tips
Speaker•Be open to being wrong.
•Know yourself
•Know others
Receiver• Speak up
• Pick your battles
•Assume the best in people
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Return to Breakout Groups &Apply Tips
Speaker•Be open to being wrong.
•Know yourself
•Know others
Receiver•Speak up
•Pick your battles
•Assume the best in people
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Applications
Possible Microaggressions• Are you an
international student?
• Do your people live in teepees?
• I just love how your people do your hair.
Alternatives• What city do you
call home?
• Tell me about yourself.
• Your hair is beautiful.
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Applications/Advice
• Leave assumptions and broad generalizations out of questions/statements.
• If you are unsure if it is a microagression, question whether this is something you would say to a person in the dominant group. If not, it might be a microagression.
• If accused of a microagression, avoid being defensive but use it as a teachable moment. Even if we did not intend to offend someone, the interpretation is more important than the intention.
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Resources
• D. Livermore. Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World.
• L. Delpit. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.
• Multicultural Affairs Office & Multicultural Student Development Office
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Works Referenced
• SooJin Pate, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor Macalester College, “More than Words: Microagressions”. Macalester Department of Student Life. • Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D., Teachers
College, Columbia University. “Racial Aggessions and Pychological Dilemmas”. Presented March 8, 2010 at the AACDR Speaker Series.• We are Calvin [Too].
http://wearecalvintoo.tumblr.com/