COMM 315 Stepping Outside My World Analysis

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The activity chosen to analyze the world outside my world is putting me in a wheelchair to learn how a wheelchair bound person feels and public reaction toward the individual.

The place chosen was a mall because of the diversity of people walking around.

I observed that people generally glanced and stared, but mostly I did not want people to pity me but treat me as everyone else. This is interesting - you really had the opportunity to reflect on yourself and your limitations in the wheel chair; this gives you the perspective of a person in the chair.

What I found surprising about the wheelchair experience was how self conscious I was about how people were looking at me. Also I was surprised how helpful people were to hold the door for me and allowed the right of way to the person in the wheelchair.

I felt very uncomfortable because it was out of my normal environment and was very self conscious about what other people were thinking about. Most of all I was very uncomfortable with not able to do things with my two legs.

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Selectan activity that puts yourself outside of your normal environment. If you have access to a wheelchair, for example, go out in the wheelchair to a public setting such as a shopping mall or restaurant. This activity must be approved by your instructor.

Writea 750- to 1,050-word analysis describing your experience. Consider the following questions when writing this paper:

Describe the activity they chose and why?

What type of place did you choose to experience and why?

What did you observe?

What did you find surprising or unexpected?

Did you feel comfortable or uncomfortable? Why?

Did this experience change your views about the people whom you observed? If so, how?

What did you learn from this experience?

How could your workplace benefit because you had this type of an experience?

Why do you feel that employers would seek and value employees with this diverse experience?

Identify at least two reasons why organizations benefit from having a diversity-conscious culture.

Prior to this experience did you have a stereotype of the people you observed in this activity?