Most larger employers preach diversity and many of them have programs in place designed to attract, hire and employ people of various ethnicities, nationalities, races, genders, ages, socioeconomic status, sexual orientations, and physical capabilities.
Their diversity statements commonly mention that they believe that there is tremendous value in the free exchange of new ideas and approaches that can come from employing qualified people whose lives and experiences differ from those of the workers they have "traditionally" employed.
My experience, however, has been that once hired, diverse workers are expected not to make waves and do things exactly the way they were done in the past. Different views are shunned and different approaches are punished. Rarely have I seen an eclectic and integrative approach taken by these employers. So although diverse workers have better access to "good" jobs than before, it seems their diversity, once beneficial is now detrimental. Your thoughts?
What you are describing is just another example of the hypocrisy that is eroding our country from the inside out! It’s not a corporate America issue, but an American culture issue.
People, organizations , and politicians all pay lip service to social issues, but the proof is always in the pudding (we are a country the pays movie stars millions of dollars a film, and teacher barely a living rage) We are living in truly scary times. The gap between the rich and poor is increasing at an alarming rate, and the middle class is disappearing. Our government has undermined the middle class making it easier for American corporations to export jobs overseas.
Banks have extended middle class credit to the point that most Americans are drowning in debt. Inflation is out of control (30 years ago you could by a house for 20,000, a new car for 2,000 and raise a family on 1 income, now the median new house is 150,000, car is 25,000 and you can barely make ends meet with two incomes and an annual household salary over 50,000 a year). The media has convinced the public that happiness is something external, outside of themselves, and that they can buy on E-bay, Pharmaceutical companies have convinced Americans that they are all sick and need a pill feel “normal”, and it is so ingrained that we are the only western civilization in the world that drugs it’s children for behavior problems (ADHD) and then talks out of the other side of our ass about how drugs are bad”.
We a country that believes we have so much choice & variety, but in reality the media, and most consumer products are all one company going under divert subsidiaries or divisions(Taco Bell, KFC, Pepsi, Frito Lay, it is all the same company, the same thing with your newspaper & Network and cable news).
I am a professional master’s level social worker with over 10 years working in the non profit mental health industry who totally believed in all the American propaganda until I got a real wake up call. For starters I found myself making less money then I did as a high school drop out in Hawaii 15 years ago working as a travel agent . I was also unable to afford health insurance at my job with a community mental health agency because the premium for my family was almost 600.00 a month.
I was over 150,000 dollars in debt on student loans I used to get my master’s degree, and we carried over 200,00 in additional personal debt and ended up having to file bankruptcy . My child was receiving a substandard education because we lived in Florida which is focused on testing kids constantly, but neglects to teach them any real critical thinking skills. Also I worked with troubled kids, and was just horrified by all of the social pressures, and cultural messages, and just the loss of innocence that the kids were be confronted with at earlier and earlier ages.
I made a radical decision, and left the USA to raise my child overseas where our family could be part of a global community. I have not regretted the decision, but it really breaks my heart that things have gotten so bad in the US. I am glad that you are cautiously optimistic, I am an optimist too, and I have not given up on the US, I just really feel that it was a toxic environment to raise my child in.
If you want to talk more about this kind of stuff you can contact me via my yahoo 360 page, by the way your baby is adorable!! I will put my yahoo link below if you want to talk more about stuff like this. I noticed that some of your questions seem to be going unanswered. These are big questions, with no easy answers, but I think communicating about them is definitely a step in the right direction!