Using an Example from Your Own Experience, Describe a Situation

Essay

Using an example from your own experience, describe a situation when you ignored or discounted the attitudes, values, beliefs, opinions, and actions of someone you perceived to be dissimilar to yourself. Specifically indicate which nonverbal codes influenced you to make that assumption of difference, including indicators of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, ability, or other sociodemographic characteristics of that person. Going forward, to uphold your ethical responsibility how can you avoid ignoring or discounting someone due to perceived dissimilarity?