Our team hired someone from a completely different cultural background and we're all trying so hard to be inclusive that we're walking on eggshells and not giving them the direct feedback they need to succeed. Meanwhile they're probably picking up on the weird energy and we're all pretending everything is fine.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your desire to be welcoming is creating a kind of protective distance that prevents real integration, and everyone's discomfort with addressing this directly is making it worse.
“Where Are You with Digital identity and curated self?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.