Racism at Work
This is more prevalent in small companies than at bigger corporations because the hiring manager/owner has more control over who to hire and less guidelines to adhere to.
In small companies, people tend to create a staff of people of their own religion or color or community. Jews will hire Jews, Indians hire Indians, Floridians hire Floridians.
This happens, in my opinion, not due to any overt racist mentality to exclude people of different culture or nature but just due to the following psychology:
- People hire people who they understand and whose actions they can predict.
- You understand those who are like you and who you hang out with: people of your religion, color or community.
- 'Emergency' hiring is usually done through a network and that network will probably be of people you trust: people of your religion, color or community.
Update-to-clarify-for-V: I am not saying that people who hire people of their own religion, color or community are racist. On the contrary, I am explaining that they are not. A third person who walks into an office of only Jews or Chinese will consider these firms as racist- while they are not.
posted by EntrepreneurNI at 2:16 PM
4 Comments:
If you read carefully the 2 points that you have written. You will smell dormant racism hidden in between em.
1. You understand only few people. That too who are similar to you.
Shows that you never really made good friends with people from other side.
2. Your network being limited to people of same race, relegion etc.
Same thing as earlier.
This is not active racism, but this is dormant racism from our sub-conscious or whatever ;-)
And on the same vein as what I was conveying in the post, this is not racism.
Is he racist, if a white guy's circle only has 1 black? You will of course, say yes.
But forget the American/western overreaction to 'racism' and look at your self and your friends. Should a Sardar, who has a lot of Sardar friends be called 'religious-ist'? Should, YOU, who has a lot of Air Force friends be called 'Defence-ist'? Or a woman with mostly women friends be sexist?
This underlying psychology is present in everyone. In my opinion, unless someone makes a conscious choice of segregation(like me with hiring Brazilian men ;-)), they are not racist/sexist/religious-ist.
hey, i kinda liked your take on racism and would like to write a term papaer for my culture studies class... could you please elaborate on what u said, further, and give more examples with the same in mind?
o, btw, i'm priyanca vaishnav and i study at Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. i'm doing my MA with English here.hope thats adequate info for now.. and hope to hear from you soon!:)
LOL
ok Ms. Piyu. This still doesn't answer my question.
He has to let me know, as in 'who is piyu in relation to him'
:-)
he's quite stubborn, isn't he?
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