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Critical consciousness
is another concept
that's very important
in terms of developing
shared language.
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And it's also one of those
concepts that can be used
to help you along the way on
the transformational journey.
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And what that is,
is advancing surface understanding
to deeper understanding
of all the concepts.
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We talk about relationships,
personal biases,
anything and everything related
to how do we move forward
in diversity, equity,
inclusion and belonging
and thinking about it
from a broad sense.
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And when we talk about
a surface understanding,
a lot of that comes from what?
Some of the things
I already talked about,
our cultural influences,
some of the stereotypes that
we believe and have bought into
because it's human nature, right?
It was all we knew
before, we got to a point
where it was acceptable to
have these conversations
that before because of
the tension it created,
we avoided those.
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It wasn't acceptable or allowable
in a lot of circumstances.
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So now that we know better
as my Maya Angelou says,
"We have to do better."
So, I advanced from this
surface understanding
by applying
cultural intelligence or CQ
to develop that
deeper understanding,
not only of concepts,
relationships, and biases,
but of other cultures.
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And just talking to people.
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Basically, and applying that
cultural intelligence framework
whenever we can.
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Then Race Consciousness.
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Even though I said
it's a social construct,
we do have to
explicitly acknowledge
how race influenced
racism in social context
or in your personal life.
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And we do need to think about all
the different things that happened
or occurred as a result of
assigning race and
assigning superiority,
no matter what it is.
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In the context of race,
in the context of gender,
in the context of role assignment,
of job titles, or whatever.
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Thinking about all of
those hierarchical things,
and having a conscious conversation
about how all those things affect
everything else in our lives,
especially in terms
of our interactions.
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But we do, race consciousness
kind of goes back
to thinking about
structural racism,
and how all of those different isms
were born out of structural racism
and just be conscious
across the board.
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I'll say social consciousness,
or human consciousness,
and just thinking about
things from so many levels
and integrating the
critical consciousness
with that social consciousness
so that we can develop
that humanitarian type,
ethos and the
humanitarian thinking,
just in the world period,
impartiality,
and those humanitarian principles
that we talked about
in one of the previous segments,
compassion, service, mercy.
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My favorite one is respect
for human life and dignity.
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And if we focus everything
starting with that,
then all these other things
I'm going to say will be
easier to achieve.