白人至上文化

这是在我们的组织中出现的白人至上文化特征的列表. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. 它们之所以具有破坏性，是因为它们宣扬白人至上主义思想. 他们对有色人种和白人都是有害的. Organizations that are people of color led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.

完美主义

• little appreciation expressed among people for the work that others are doing; appreciation that is expressed usually directed to those who get most of the credit anyway
• 更常见的是指出这个人或工作是如何的不足
• 甚至更常见, 在不直接与他人交谈的情况下，与他人谈论某人或其工作的不足之处
• 错误被视为个人的，我.e. 他们对犯错误的人有不好的反映，而不是被看到他们是�错误
• 犯错误和犯错是混淆的，做错和做错是混淆的
• 很少的时间, 能源, 或者把钱投入到反思中，或者找出可以改进实践的经验教训, 换句话说，很少或根本没有从错误中吸取教训
• tendency to identify what�s wrong; little ability to identify, name, and appreciate what�s right

解决办法:培养一种欣赏的文化, where the 组织 takes time to make sure that people�s work and efforts are appreciated; develop a learning 组织, where it is expected that everyone will make mistakes and those mistakes offer opportunities for learning; create an environment where people can recognize that mistakes sometimes lead to positive results; separate the person from the mistake; when offering feedback, always speak to the things that went well before offering criticism; ask people to offer specific suggestions for how to do things differently when offering criticism

• 持续的紧迫感使得很难抽出时间来包容, 鼓励民主和/或深思熟虑的决策, 长远考虑, 考虑后果
• 经常导致牺牲潜在的盟友以获得快速或高度可见的结果, 例如 sacrificing interests of communities of color in order to win victories for white people (seen as default or norm community)
• reinforced by funding proposals which promise too much work for too little money and by funders who expect too much for too little

antidotes: realistic workplans; leadership which understands that things take longer than anyone expects; discuss and plan for what it means to set goals of inclusivity and diversity, particularly in terms of time; learn from past experience how long things take; write realistic funding proposals with realistic time frames; be clear about how you will make good decisions in an atmosphere of urgency

• 建立了组织结构，并花费了大量精力试图防止滥用和保护权力，而不是促进每个人发挥最大的作用，或者澄清谁拥有权力以及他们应该如何使用权力
• 因为非此即彼的想法(见下文), 对当权者的批评被视为威胁和不恰当的(或粗鲁的)。
• 人们对新的或具有挑战性的想法的反应是防御性的, 这使得提出这些想法变得非常困难
• a lot of 能源 in the 组织 is spent trying to make sure that people�s feelings aren�t getting hurt or working around defensive people
• 掌权者的防御性创造了一种压迫性的文化

antidotes: understand that structure cannot in and of itself facilitate or prevent abuse; understand the link between defensiveness and fear (of losing power, 丢脸, 失去了安慰, losing privilege); work on your own defensiveness; name defensiveness as a problem when it is one; give people credit for being able to handle more than you think; discuss the ways in which defensiveness or resistance to new ideas gets in the way of the mission

• 组织的所有资源都指向产生可测量的目标
• 可以衡量的东西比不能衡量的东西更有价值, 例如，参加会议的人数, 通讯循环, 花的钱比关系的质量更有价值, 民主决策, 建设性地处理冲突的能力
• little or no value attached to process; if it can't be measured, it has no value
• 情绪和感觉上的不适
• no understanding that when there is a conflict between content (the agenda of the meeting) and process (people�s need to be heard or engaged), 流程将占上风(例如, 你可以把议程看完, 但如果你还没有关注peopleï，你需要被倾听, 会议上作出的决定遭到破坏和(或)被无视。

antidotes: include process or quality goals in your planning; make sure your 组织 has a values statement which expresses the ways in which you want to do your work; make sure this is a living document and that people are using it in their day to day work; look for ways to measure process goals (例如 if you have a goal of inclusivity, think about ways you can measure whether or not you have achieved that goal); learn to recognize those times when you need to get off the agenda in order to address people�s underlying concerns

• 如果it�不在备忘录中，它就不存在
• 组织没有考虑或重视信息共享的其他方式
• 那些有很强的文档和写作能力的人更受重视, even in 组织s where ability to relate to others is key to the mission antidotes: take the time to analyze how people inside and outside the 组织 get and share information; figure out which things need to be written down and come up with alternative ways to document what is happening; work to recognize the contributions and skills that every person brings to the 组织 (例如, 与那些对公司的使命至关重要的人建立关系的能力(组织�’s mission)
• 只有一条正确的路
• 相信有一种正确的方法来做事情，一旦人们被介绍到正确的方法, 他们会看到光明并接受它
• 当他们不适应或改变时, 那么他们(对方)一定有问题, 那些不变的), 不与我们(那些�know�以正确的方式)
• 类似于那些看不到其他群体文化价值的传教士, 只在他们的信念中看到什么是好的价值

antidotes: accept that there are many ways to get to the same goal; once the group has made a decision about which way will be taken, 尊重这个决定，看看你和公司能从中学到什么, even and especially if it is not the way you would have chosen; work on developing the ability to notice when people do things differently and how those different ways might improve your approach; look for the tendency for a group or a person to keep pushing the same point over and over out of a belief that there is 只有一条正确的路 and then name it; when working with communities from a different culture than yours or your 组织�s, be clear that you have some learning to do about the communities� ways of doing; never assume that you or your 组织 know what�s best for the community in isolation from meaningful relationships with that community

• 决策对掌权者来说是清晰的，对没有权力的人来说是不清晰的
• those with power think they are capable of making decisions for and in the interests of those without power
• those with power often don't think it is important or necessary to understand the viewpoint or experience of those for whom they are making decisions
• 那些没有权力的人知道他们没有权力，也知道谁拥有权力
• 那些没有权力的人并不真正知道决策是如何做出的，以及谁做出了什么决定, 然而，他们完全熟悉这些决定对他们的影响

antidotes: make sure that everyone knows and understands who makes what decisions in the 组织; make sure everyone knows and understands their level of responsibility and authority in the 组织; include people who are affected by decisions in the decision-making

• 事情不是/就是�好/坏，对/错，对我们有利/不利于我们
• 与完美主义密切相关，难以从错误中吸取教训或适应冲突
• 没有感觉事情可以两者兼得
• 结果是试图简化复杂的事情, 例如，认为贫穷仅仅是缺乏教育的结果
• 制造冲突，增加紧迫感, 因为人们觉得他们必须做出决定，要么做这个要么做那个, 没有时间和鼓励去考虑其他选择, 特别是那些可能需要更多时间或资源的

antidotes: notice when people use �either/or� language and push to come up with more than two alternatives; notice when people are simplifying complex issues, particularly when the stakes seem high or an urgent decision needs to be made; slow it down and encourage people to do a deeper analysis; when people are faced with an urgent decision, take a break and give people some breathing room to think creatively; avoid making decisions under extreme pressure

• 分享权力几乎没有价值，如果有的话
• 权力被认为是有限的，只有这么多的权力可以分配
• those with power feel threatened when anyone suggests changes in how things should be done in the 组织, 觉得变革的建议反映了他们的领导力
• 那些有权力的人不会认为自己在囤积权力或感到受到威胁
• those with power assume they have the best interests of the 组织 at heart and assume those wanting change are ill-informed (stupid), 情感, 没有经验的

antidotes: include power sharing in your 组织�s values statement; discuss what good leadership looks like and make sure people understand that a good leader develops the power and skills of others; understand that change is inevitable and challenges to your leadership can be healthy and productive; make sure the 组织 is focused on the mission

• 当权者害怕冲突，并试图忽视它或逃避它
• 当某人提出一个引起不适的问题时, the response is to blame the person for raising the issue rather than to look at the issue which is actually causing the problem
• 强调礼貌
• 把提出难题等同于不礼貌、粗鲁或出格

antidotes: role play ways to handle conflict before conflict happens; distinguish between being polite and raising hard issues; don't require those who raise hard issues to raise them in �acceptable� ways, especially if you are using the ways in which issues are raised as an excuse not to address the issues being raised; once a conflict is resolved, 抓住这个机会重新审视它，看看它可能会如何处理不同

• 缺乏作为团队一员的工作经验
• 组织中的人认为他们有责任独自解决问题
• 问责制, 如果有任何, 忽上忽下, 而不是对同事或组织的服务对象
• 对个人认可和荣誉的渴望
• 导致孤立
• 竞争比合作更受重视，而合作更受重视, 很少有时间和资源用于发展如何合作的技能
• 导致缺乏问责制, as the 组织 values those who can get things done on their own without needing supervision or guidance antidotes: include teamwork as an important value in your values statement; make sure the 组织 is working towards shared goals and people understand how working together will improve performance; evaluate people�s ability to work in a team as well as their ability to get the job done; make sure that credit is given to all those who participate in an effort, not just the leaders or most public person; make people accountable as a group rather than as individuals; create a culture where people bring problems to the group; use staff meetings as a place to solve problems, 不仅仅是一个报告活动的地方
• Iï我是唯一的一个
• 与个人主义有关, 一种信念，如果某件事要做好, �I�必须这么做
• 很少或没有把工作委派给别人的能力

antidotes: evaluate people based on their ability to delegate to others; evaluate people based on their ability to work as part of a team to accomplish shared goals

• 在责任体系和我们决定成功的方式中观察到
• 进步是一个组织扩大(增加)员工, adds projects) or develops the ability to serve more people (regardless of how well they are serving them)
• 没有任何价值, 甚至不是负值, 为此付出代价, 例如, 随着预算的增加，对出资人的责任也在增加, 我们所服务的对象可能会被利用, 被排除在外, or underserved as we focus on how many we are serving instead of quality of service or values created by the ways in which we serve

antidotes: create Seventh Generation thinking by asking how the actions of the group now will affect people seven generations from now; make sure that any cost/benefit analysis includes all the costs, 不仅仅是金融方面, 比如士气的损失, 信誉成本, the cost in the use of resources; include process goals in your planning, 例如，确保你的目标与你想要如何工作有关, not just what you want to do; ask those you work with and for to evaluate your performance

• 相信客观存在的信念
• 认为情绪本身具有破坏性的信念, 非理性的, 不应该在决策或群体过程中发挥作用
• 让表现出情感的人无效
• 要求人们以线性方式思考，而忽略或否定那些以其他方式思考的人
• 对任何没有出现在掌权者面前的想法都不耐烦�logical�

antidotes: realize that everybody has a world view and that everybody�s world view affects the way they understand things; realize this means you too; push yourself to sit with discomfort when people are expressing themselves in ways which are not familiar to you; assume that everybody has a valid point and your job is to understand what that point is

• the belief that those with power have a right to 情感 and psychological comfort (another aspect of valuing �logic� over emotion)
• 把那些造成不适的人当作替罪羊
• equating individual acts of unfairness against white people with systemic racism which daily targets people of color

antidotes: understand that discomfort is at the root of all growth and learning; welcome it as much as you can; deepen your political analysis of racism and oppression so you have a strong understanding of how your personal experience and feelings fit into a larger picture; don't take everything personally

列举白人至上文化特征的目的之一是 to point out how 组织s which unconsciously use these characteristics as their norms and standards make 要向其他文化规范和标准敞开大门，即使不是不可能，也是很困难的. 结果，很多 我们的组织, 同时说我们想要多元文化, 真的只允许其他的人和文化 如果他们适应或符合已经存在的文化规范. 能够识别和命名 你想要的文化规范和标准是为真正的多元文化腾出空间的第一步 组织.