Glen Llopis 'Achievement Of Desire'

While reading “Achievement of Desire”, I came across the idea that the self hated that Rodriguez and I felt is not innate. Someone is teaching us, people of color, that our accent, parents, origin is wrong and only by assimilation and conforming to a Eurocentric idea of professional will we become accepted. In the media, especially growing up I saw professional individuals of color as exceptions to the rule, however an abundance of white professionals. Growing up, all the professionals that I had come across were mostly white and it soon made me feel like people of color were to work blue collar jobs, unless you were a genius. One example of this is in elementary school every teacher, I had up until sixth grade was a white. Being that they were the first professionals that I was around for most of my day and being taught by them, I
Here she claims that “professionalism” is white and to create an illusion of being inclusive, but actually means where a three-piece, dull suit with straight hair is professionalism. Glen Llopis in “Study On Hispanic Professionals Reveals Low Productivity And Engagement In The Workplace” also combats the difficulties that come with being a person of color trying to be as a professional. He presents the statement saying
Corporations must learn to solve for the low levels of workplace productivity and engagement that they unknowingly perpetuate when, as 81% of Hispanics believe, their unique perspectives are not valued enough.The CHL Academy study reveals an overall lack of cultural intelligence at companies that is unknowingly perpetuating workplace engagement tension, employee misrepresentations, and