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When workplace boundaries ignore cultural violations

My coworker keeps touching my hair and asking if it's real and HR said it's not harassment because she means it as a compliment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional blindness to cultural harm allows violation to be reframed as curiosity, leaving dignity unprotected.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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