Racial Microaggressions In Everyday Life

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Discussion #4 After reading the article on “Racial Microaggressions in everyday life,” my perception on microaggressions seems to have more severe consequences and harmful effects than blatant discrimination. Blatant discrimination is easily noticed and intentional by people being aware of it occurring when conversating or interacting with others. An example of blatant discrimination would be, in the workplace, an employee who is trying to get a promotion is passed up and is always in favor of younger employees. Microaggressions is the opposite of blatant discrimination. The reason why it is more harmful is because: People are unaware of their actions or communications of microaggressions when talking to others of different racial and

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