No Different
I have not been as active writing as this was my first week back in the workforce. It has given me many ideeahs. Here is the first.
I am working for a global corporation that is active in 100+ countries. My manager has employees in three countries. I deal with people in at least seven on a near-daily basis. The office I work in has Spaniards, Arabs, Finns, English and French Canadians, Americans, Chinese, Africans and Vietnamese. We speak English and French - interchangeably. I have heard Chinese and Arabic as well. On phone calls we speak English, each with our unique accents and native-tongue sentence structure. Our emails are all in English. In the office I can see my colleagues. On the phone I don't - unless we use videoconference. Some dress in suits, some business casual, some in shorts and sandals. It all doesn't matter.
It is a dynamic, modern-thinking place - exciting and full of people that don't seem to have the slightest care for where you come from, what language you speak, how you speak or what you look like. Let's just get on with the job of building solutions that will only continue to shrink the distances between the worlds diverse cultures.
To all those people who continue to think that that language, politics, sex, religion, race, location or opinion are reasons to divide I urge you to get out of your comfort zone and talk to people that are different from you. If you are homophobic make an effort to speak to a gay man. If you are an ardent Catholic read the Quran. If you are on the left read a newspaper that leans right. Read a book, magazine, newspaper or website that challenges your thinking. Watch a movie on a topic which makes you cringe. Speak to people that are not of your generation and social background.
You'll wake up to a new reality. An exciting reality that does indeed bode well for the future.
...my actions make me beautiful
and dignify the flesh.
I am free
-R.E.M.
Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!
I am working for a global corporation that is active in 100+ countries. My manager has employees in three countries. I deal with people in at least seven on a near-daily basis. The office I work in has Spaniards, Arabs, Finns, English and French Canadians, Americans, Chinese, Africans and Vietnamese. We speak English and French - interchangeably. I have heard Chinese and Arabic as well. On phone calls we speak English, each with our unique accents and native-tongue sentence structure. Our emails are all in English. In the office I can see my colleagues. On the phone I don't - unless we use videoconference. Some dress in suits, some business casual, some in shorts and sandals. It all doesn't matter.
It is a dynamic, modern-thinking place - exciting and full of people that don't seem to have the slightest care for where you come from, what language you speak, how you speak or what you look like. Let's just get on with the job of building solutions that will only continue to shrink the distances between the worlds diverse cultures.
To all those people who continue to think that that language, politics, sex, religion, race, location or opinion are reasons to divide I urge you to get out of your comfort zone and talk to people that are different from you. If you are homophobic make an effort to speak to a gay man. If you are an ardent Catholic read the Quran. If you are on the left read a newspaper that leans right. Read a book, magazine, newspaper or website that challenges your thinking. Watch a movie on a topic which makes you cringe. Speak to people that are not of your generation and social background.
You'll wake up to a new reality. An exciting reality that does indeed bode well for the future.
...my actions make me beautiful
and dignify the flesh.
I am free
-R.E.M.
Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!
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