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Natalie E. Norfus of The Norfus Firm On 5 Steps We Must Take To Truly Create An Inclusive, Representative, and Equitable Society
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12 min readApr 18, 2023
Self-exploration. If we cannot relate to ourselves, we cannot relate to other people. I recently read an article where a young woman majoring in journalism and international affairs wrote about how she “hated” her study abroad experience in Italy. When I was reading her examples, it struck me that she was looking at the situation through a very blurry lens. For example, she didn’t like how her housemates traveled to other countries on the weekends and assumed they did so for social media attention. I don’t know her, but this fixed view of who or how people should be suggested that she had not really explored her “why” for choosing a major that would require her to observe many types of people, cultures, and places.
