Breakout 1:
Give yourself 1 point for each YES answer.
1.The leader of my country is also a person of my racial group.
2.When going shopping I can easily find clothes that fit my size and shape.
3.In public I can show affection to the person that I am dating without fear of name calling or violence.
4.When I go shopping I can be fairly certain that sales or security people will not follow me.
5.Most of the religious and cultural holidays celebrated by my family are recognized with days off from work or school.
6.When expressing my opinion I am not automatically assume to be a spokesperson of my race or gender.
7.In my family it is seen as normal to obtain a college degree.
8.If I am going out to dinner with my friends I do not worry if the building will be accessible to me.
9.I can be certain that when I attend an event there will be people of my race there.
10.When I strongly state my opinion people see it as assertive rather than aggressive.
11.I can feel comfortable speaking about my culture without feeling that I will be judged.
12.When filling out the forms for work/government I can easily identify with the box that I have to check.
13.My professionalism is never questioned because of my age.
14.I do not worry about walking alone at night.
15.People assume that I was admitted to school or hired based upon my credentials rather than anything else.
16.If questioned at immigration I can be sure that it has nothing to do with my race.
17. I am able to file joint tax returns with my partner (if you had one)
18 My university schooling was conducted in my first language.
19. I am happy with how the media portrays my identity(s).
20. I was never discouraged from an activity because of my identity(s).
Breakout 2
Please discuss with your partners:
What was your score? Feel free to pass on this question.
Any thoughts/reflections on this activity in terms of privilege/experience?
Breakout 3
What was it like to do this activity?
What questions did you all wrestle with when trying to make this decision as a group?
What struck you about the list?
Where there any items you didn’t totally understand or didn’t connect with at first?
What privileges stuck out to you, what kind of privileges were they?
Breakout 4
What’s in your iceberg? What is visible and what is not? My example of an aspect of my culture that I believe is “hidden”
My example of something most people from my cultural group practice that might be different from another group
My example of something I did in my childhood that teaches a cultural value or practice
Breakout 5
What challenges have you had?
What misassumptions have you made?
Where are you similar/different?
How can you collaborate and communicate together better?
Breakout 6
How do we include?
What works/what does not?
What are the biggest barriers to success and what role can we play in helping to remove them?
How can we help amplify underrepresented voices?
What more can we do? Think small actions/big impacts.
Breakout 7
Do I perceive others as individual contributors, high potentials, and leaders, rather than as a group I label them with?
Do I judge others performance, and success by the same standards as those similar to me?
Do we see the current design of the system favoring some lifestyles and situations?
What questions do we need to be asking? What else can we do to de-bias?
Breakout 8
What do we measure?
What more should/could we measure? Think leading as well as lagging indicators.
How transparent are we?
Who do we hold accountable?
