Discrimination Question

Here's an application question that I answered.  I really like my answer because I used my brain to sound smart.  This is my third draft of the answer though.  The first one, I emailed Rhea about it.  She said to use work experiences.  I decided not to because qualifications include education.  So, I used my education and life experiences instead.  I was happy with my second answer.  I was going to use it.  However, the website timed out on me because I was distracted watching YouTube and lost my answer.  So, I just wrote my third answer.  I was having trouble keeping it under 1,000 characters both times.  I kept on wanting to go over the limit.  I think that my third draft is the best because it has specific examples.  

As an Equal Opportunity Employer with a diverse staff and student population, please share how your qualifications prepare you to work in a campus environment with faculty, staff and students from cultures and backgrounds different than your own.

At Spokane Community College, I took an intercultural communication class. I learned that different cultures desire and strive for different values. For example, Americans value individualism while the Japanese value collectivism. When different cultures come together, their values can be diametrically opposed from one another. With many workplaces, management wants their employees to assimilate into the dominant culture. They treat everybody the same according to what they value. That will mean management will discriminate because some people will come from subcultures that have different values which they base their daily decisions on. For example, a business could discriminate against a hijab wearing Muslim woman. There needs to be room for people to express their values in the workplace without being discriminated against. I have learned it's really hard for people not to discriminate because they do it implicitly. Plus, I have been subjected to it many times in my life.

I really want to talk about my experience with the Spokane Community College nursing program openly. I really want to pretty much expose the discrimination that I received while I was there. However, I want to keep a lid on it for now because I just complained to OCR and the HR department about it. It was a really awful experience though. I learned that while I was in the program, nursing students only had to keep the program in a positive light when they use social media. I thought that was a bunch of crap if they see problems within the program. I am starting to think that that nursing program had really conservative ideals. That doesn't work for me because I am very liberal. I don't think I am an extreme liberal like the Young Turks though, but I agree with the progressive movement. Anyways, I think that I will publish of what happened when the investigation is over. I just want to pretty much fight against what happened to me by exposing the people who discriminated against me. The first time that happened to me, I didn't blame the teachers, I blamed the disability department. Now, I blame the teachers. I don't know if I blame the disability department because it seemed like they didn't have any power of enforcement. Anyways, April was really hard for me because no one in power was standing up for me. I had to defend myself as much as possible. It ended up that my teachers plowed over me anyways even though I knew what exactly was happening. If I had the money, I would talk to a lawyer about it too. However, I don't think it's worth to fight that much because Voc Rehab paid for it. Plus, I was able to protect my transcript.

Now, I am back to square one trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. It just stinks because I feel that this won't be the last time of discrimination either. I would much rather be not part of a minority group. I wish I could just be a chameleon and fit in. However, my disabilities really prevent me from doing that. With some situations, I tend to get burned out if I try to fit in. I have three disorders which really put me on the margins. The only thing that I have going for me is my intellect. I would much rather be smart and have a hard stance on ethics instead of trying to fit in. I still stand up for scientific truth. That's why I had a hard time in the nursing program. It wasn't standing on science. Nursing likes alternative medicine which I hate. There are so many gates within health care too. So, I just want to go sideways instead to see if I can still use my education without me starting into a field which I really have no education.