You are a member of a minority group and you look for a better paid job. Someone from the majoritary group sends you a job offer that targets specifically people from you minority group (they want to hire someone from that group to work with problems occuring in that particular group). Would you feel that the person that sends you the job offer reduces you to you minority group identity and feel offended by this?
2006-11-01 20:22:22 · 9 answers · asked by Inno 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
OK. So the person did got offended. Can someone explain me why (except for the reason I think it did and I mentioned above)?
2006-11-01 20:30:04 · update #1
No, not at all. They are looking for a specialist. This person is not being "reduced" they are being called of for a " specialized assignment "
If people keep looking for ways to be offended by things, then that's all that will happen.
2006-11-01 20:53:44 · answer #1 · answered by Odindmar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, I wouldn't. I would feel that I was the 'right man' for the job. Being specific about what kind of applicant you want, narrows down what can be a fruitless job search. However, it seems this person has issues with race, which is a sensitive area in this country. They , in the long run have probably saved you from hiring someone who will prove difficult.... I would say you've had a lucky escape. At the end of the day, I bet you get someone who IS willing to take that job, and they will prove to be the 'right-man'.
2006-11-02 04:37:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on the exact circumstances. But in principle I would not be offended because they are trying to get the right man for the job. If you have a plumbing problem you send for a plumber.
It is also important that the fact of your minority status actually makes you a better candidate. i.e. you speak a language others don't etc.
If it does not then the majority are being discriminated against and maybe you are being used.
2006-11-02 04:28:55 · answer #3 · answered by mince42 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Me personally I won't be offended coz any employer has the right to decide on any group to suit his requirement coz each group of people (even minority) has their own unique qualities which the employer is looking for.
But as for what other people think , they could feel offended by the offer if they think they should offended for being in the minority group in the first place.
2006-11-02 04:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by Jessiefer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah. i would probably not take the job over it. i'm the kinda person that insists on earning everything and taking no charity, so i'd go over the edge.
meaning that i want a job based on skills, not ethnicity. that said, i could see several situations where ethnicity is a reasonable thing to consider.
also, did they mention being part of this minority was a requirement? that was definitely a tad over the line in my view.
2006-11-02 04:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I wouldn't. I would think that it was good that they were smart enough to ask advice from the people who really know how it feels to be in this minority group.
And a job is a job!! People get paid for doing a lot WORSE things than that.
2006-11-02 04:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by govy000 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i was faced with the very same dilemma a couple of years ago. i m a social science researcher in india, and a very lucrative job was announced. a lot of people went, but in the crowd, three of us were singled out and told that the job vacancy was only for muslims (which meant only the three of us). the others felt bad, but nobody said nything and walked out.
all three of us gave a pretty rigorous interview. finally, a few days later i was called to discuss the details of the job. it was then that i discovered that the project was to hire muslims to work only with muslims. the larger agenda was to educate the community to work against the local clerical order in the region. there was a very strong political, economic and social content in the project. it was working in lines off 'democracy eduction for muslims'.
it was not that i did not want to work with my community, also the pay and benefits were tremendous, but i had to refuse the job. somewhere along the line my conscience wud not allow me to work with the project. in a place where every1 faces the same hardships, to have to single out just one community: give it economic incentives to change its political outlook, and make it into a test case for an experiment that cud have had major socio-political repercussions were just not my cup of tea. i may have grievances with the way my community works and most of its policies, but i wud want the movement for change to come from within. i wud definitely not want to be the 1 to foment cecession, or sponsor it, or fan discontent, or disparage the faith that others have in the religion.
the long and short of the story is: the problem is of trust -- particularly of the intentions of the employer. do they want to use u as a poster child, or do they want u as a face to cover their own biases, or is their intention noble. one just needs to be careful. if there are negative fall-outs of the job, r u ready to take the blame? and wud u be able to rectify it??
p.s: none of the three of us joined the job.
2006-11-02 04:54:23 · answer #7 · answered by slmanl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't see a problem and it could hardly be called racist. The police asign members of minorities to work with people belonging to that minority because they understand social and cultural problems. Why not a business?
2006-11-02 04:36:52 · answer #8 · answered by Ted T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no.
2006-11-02 04:25:35 · answer #9 · answered by Busy Diyosa 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋