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How to Build an Inclusive Workplace

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

I Work Really Hard in My Job, Therefore I Can't Have Privilege

Psychologists have shown that when white people become aware of our privilege, we tend to get defensive. It's a way of saying, i'm not privileged. I've earned my success. And this is a major obstacle to progress, because we can't begin to dismantle the unfairness of privilege until we can see it. Inequality is a function of systems, not individuals within a system,. meaning i can only be disadvantaged relative to some one else.

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