I have always been surrounded by diversity in school & where I live and while growing up, I think I must have been color blind as I never attached any significance to a person's skin color & was comfortable in my own skin & with everyone around me.
Now that I work in the corporate world, where it is predominantly white (I am not btw), I feel out of place & am extremely uncomfortable with myself & when dealing with white people. Whenever I interact with a white co-worker(outside my department), I get the sense that they automatically don't like me from initially meeting, which I immediately attribute to my not being white.
So - are white people uncomfortable dealing with people who don't look like them? Or are they uncomfortable around me b/c they sense that I am uncomfortable with them?
What is wrong with me? What should I do to "fix" myself?
Thank you.
2007-09-23
11:56:02
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sunset28
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Psychology