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When racial awareness creates social paranoia

My company went through diversity training and now I can't tell if people are being nice to me because I'm Black or because they actually like me.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional focus on identity can make authentic relationships feel impossible to discern from performative inclusion.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity crisis — when self collapses?”

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