Hero

which is worse, danger or the fear of danger?

racial code-switching

This book is for White allies interested in ways to reduce racism and discrimination in the workplace and to better understand where racist attitudes in society originate from.

Some feel they have to tone down their ‘Blackness’ and ‘Brownness’ to fit in with the White normative values, for example, by toning down hairstyles and making a conscious effort not to appear ‘too loud

essentially we mean Black British, those from African, Caribbean and any other Black background, and British South Asian, those from an Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi background

Equality focuses on process – ensuring that everyone has been given the same fair opportunity, and equity is concerned with outcomes, recognizing that the same fair processes are not always successful and leave some people at a disadvantage due to a number of societal and organizational reasons.

The Importance of Context

“Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all.”

Gregory Bateson

Our brain, from the moment we are awake, spends its time making assumptions on reality, interpreting it, filling its voids.

This doesn’t mean, however, that we can see what we want to see all the time; in other words, that nothing really exists and that we are free to shape our own reality simply by imagining it in our head: in the context of the optical illusion we’ve previously examined, I’m free to see a figure facing forward or with their back to me, but I can’t see this figure as a tree or a banana, for example.

we learn from these two examples of bistable illusion is that human beings tend to blindly trust their perception, to the point of considering it to be shared by everyone.