Diversity Speaker - Is White Too Uptight?
As a diversity speaker and motivational speaker who has traveled to 68 countries, lived overseas and in Queens (the most diverse county in the USA), I've seen a unique pattern and trend. White families are often (not always) smaller than other families of other enthnicities.
Thus white children grow up (arguably) with more space and less intense and close interaction with siblings. As a result sometimes we who are white can be a little too uptight when interacting with people (and especially they who culturally are a bit louder and interact more closely then whites are accustomed to).
Living New York City, I sometimes found myself growing irritable with people invading "my space" - something I came to appreciate more as a Floridian living in a metropolis the size of New York.
Over time I realized the problem wasn't people around me (regardless of their ethnicity, cultural differences and emotional intensity), but the problem moreso was with me "Mr diversity speaker" being still cross-culturally challenged and learning more about diversity and social interaction.
SPACE is something that varies in comfort level with each person and ethnicity due to family and cultural conditioning. Ethnicities that have larger families, live usually more closely together, have more verbal interaction (including some more emotional intensity and drama along with all of the many members in the family interacting) and thereby become more at peace and accustomed to such styles of interaction.
Those growing up in smaller families (often whites, but not always) can tend to prefer a bit more space (which if intruded, infringed or moved in upon) and get a bit more irritable when that space becomes more crowded interpersonally.
This is a unique facet and component of cross-cultural interaction that I as a diversity speaker enjoy addressing and elaborate on in corporate trainings and effective communication seminars.
So if you are white, remember this component before you react hastily and the next time you get too uptight.
http://www.PaulFDavis.com - diversity speaker for cross-cultural understanding, ethnic awareness and peacemaking
(info@PaulFDavis.com)
Thus white children grow up (arguably) with more space and less intense and close interaction with siblings. As a result sometimes we who are white can be a little too uptight when interacting with people (and especially they who culturally are a bit louder and interact more closely then whites are accustomed to).
Living New York City, I sometimes found myself growing irritable with people invading "my space" - something I came to appreciate more as a Floridian living in a metropolis the size of New York.
Over time I realized the problem wasn't people around me (regardless of their ethnicity, cultural differences and emotional intensity), but the problem moreso was with me "Mr diversity speaker" being still cross-culturally challenged and learning more about diversity and social interaction.
SPACE is something that varies in comfort level with each person and ethnicity due to family and cultural conditioning. Ethnicities that have larger families, live usually more closely together, have more verbal interaction (including some more emotional intensity and drama along with all of the many members in the family interacting) and thereby become more at peace and accustomed to such styles of interaction.
Those growing up in smaller families (often whites, but not always) can tend to prefer a bit more space (which if intruded, infringed or moved in upon) and get a bit more irritable when that space becomes more crowded interpersonally.
This is a unique facet and component of cross-cultural interaction that I as a diversity speaker enjoy addressing and elaborate on in corporate trainings and effective communication seminars.
So if you are white, remember this component before you react hastily and the next time you get too uptight.
http://www.PaulFDavis.com - diversity speaker for cross-cultural understanding, ethnic awareness and peacemaking
(info@PaulFDavis.com)
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