Wed, 8 August 2007 Dressing for success – who would have thought this meant leaving your culture behind. Kenji Yoshino, author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, discusses the socially created requirements minorities must meet in order to succeed in a white dominated society. Often, African-Americans are told to suppress their “cultural affinities.� This advice creates a detrimental division within their respective cultures as one is seen as a traitor to those with the same cultural background. The ultimate choice is between a high salary and connection to one’s cultural inheritance.
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