VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Next class perhaps spend some time doing a speaking story.

Executive MBA Program

Vocabulary

biased for & biased against / good & bad

e.g. Harvard is being accused of having unfair bias against Asian applicants. This includes Asian people from East Asia and Asian people from America.

e.g. “What are our biases?”

e.g. What is a racial bias? This mean preferring one race/ethnicity over another.

diversity / difference

e.g. You can have diversity of thought — meaning many people who think different ways.

e.g. Diversity of ethnicities or of peoples — meaning they want black, white, yellow, etc. people.

e.g. “Diversity is our greatest strength”; America is strong because it is diverse.

multiculturalism / different people coming from different cultures — living together in harmony.

e.g. America is a multicultural society.

e.g. China is a monocultural society. China is a homogenous society. The opposite of homogenous is heterogenous.

stereotype / assuming that one person in a group has the same exact behavior as every person in that group

e.g. Sometimes stereotypes can be like compliments (e.g. Asian people are good at math/they are shy), and sometimes they can be very rude (e.g. black people are criminals).

in this script / in these lyrics

Pronunciation

will

Grammar

make this stereotype out / the problem isn’t thinking about a stereotype, it’s acting based on that stereotype