Step Outside Your World Analysis
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Review and synthesize feedback from your faculty member and apply it to this week’s assignment.
Select an activity that puts yourself outside of your normal environment. Notice others who may be different from the majority. This activity must be approved by your instructor. For example attending a public meeting, visiting a nursing home, helping a stranger in an everyday situation, or other settings where others can be observed that is outside your normal environment. Due to Covid 19 there are still limitations on group gatherings, however, many virtual gatherings are available and being advertised through social media and the internet. For this assignment, you may reflect on activity in the past that put you outside your normal environment or, you may explore social media and the internet and participate in a zoom or other online event.
Write a 600-word response to the following questions in complete sentences:
- Describe the activity you chose and why?
- What type of place did you choose to experience and why?
- What did you observe?
- What did you find surprising or unexpected?
- Did you feel comfortable or uncomfortable? Why?
- Did this experience change your views about the people whom you observed? If so, how?
- What did you learn from this experience?
- How could your workplace benefit because you had this type of an experience?
- Why do you feel that employers would seek and value employees with this diverse experience?
- Identify at least two reasons why organizations benefit from having a diversity-conscious culture.
- Prior to this experience, did you have a stereotype of the people you observed in this activity?
- Identify any social barriers you observed, such as limited perceptions, stereotyping, prejudices and discrimination.
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Step Outside Your World Analysis