A third thing we learned was why white people are so unaware of these realities. Elward said, “We [non-whites] have to know the white culture in order to survive. When we come into your workplaces and retail spaces and organizations, we have to learn how you regard time and use space, how you understand relationships between the individual and the group, how you think and solve problems, and express emotion and handle failures and judge status. But for you to function well in your society, you don’t need to understand us or our culture and differences.” In short, nearly every racial minority
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