{"id":605,"date":"2021-07-21T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/?p=605"},"modified":"2021-07-21T06:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:27:04","slug":"discussion-questions-week-of-7-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/2021\/07\/21\/discussion-questions-week-of-7-19-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions Week of 7\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Response to #1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cChanging Organizational Culture,\u201d Cori Wong discusses a number of ways organizations can promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. For the most part, she revisits familiar themes and strategies. She reminds us that diversity contributes to organizational performance. She tells us that organizational culture helps diverse employees develop loyalty and a sense of connection. She also reminds us to remember that marginalized groups experience bias at the \u201cmacro level of culture\u201d (Wong 26). All of these aspects of DEI are worth hearing again. But Wong breaks new ground, at least for me, when she discusses the energy marginalized individuals expend overcoming barriers and obstacles and the toll this takes on them. She uses a metaphor of running shoes and blisters to symbolize the pain some feel as they struggle in what seems like an equitable situation. Wong follows this by urging organizations to identify the actual barriers and pain points and to make a commitment to removing them. She raises these points rather late in her article, on pages 29 and 30, but they seem to be the overall message she is building up to. She is saying that lasting culture change requires more than a level playing field, it requires bold action. She is telling those in charge to tear the barriers down. To me, that sounds like a message more people need to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response to #2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong uses connecting words and phrases in almost every paragraph of her article. There is one paragraph on page 28 that really impressed me because it demonstrates how she takes a simple statement and deepens our understanding of it by stretching the ideas in it to subsequent sentences, which include several rephrasings. The paragraph begins with the sentence: \u201cOur differences are inherent to our experience as human beings.\u201d In the following sentence: \u201cIn ideal circumstances, they are nurtured\u2026,\u201d the word they refers to differences in the previous sentence, linking the two sentences together. The next sentence begins with the phrase \u201cEchoes of this can be found in\u2026,\u201d which is both a way to say \u201cfor example\u201d and also a nice way for her to tell us that she is reiterating her point. The fourth sentence begins with \u201cPut another way,\u201d which allows her to repeat herself with a difference. And the last sentence is: \u201cSuch is the beauty of inclusion and equitable practices.\u201d This short statement is like a bookend that matches the paragraph\u2019s opening statement and that connects all the ideas in the paragraph together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlight of my week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I reconnected with a high school friend I haven\u2019t seen in more than a year. He\u2019s been on a Mormon mission and is traveling on the East Coast. I can\u2019t believe a whole year has passed by. Reconnecting with him made me realize that the past year is a lost year for so many people my age. I really look forward to hanging out in person with friends again when things get back to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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