Think Twice Before Asking First Nations People These Questions At Work

We spend a majority of our time at our workplaces, which can be an unsafe place for many people, but in particular for First Nations peoples. Based on a LinkedIn survey, 27% of workers have personally experienced culturally insensitive behaviour in the workplace, which in my mind could range from micro-aggressions to lack of understanding and worst of all, straight-up to-your-face, no BS about it, racism. This can sometimes be triggered by a First Nations person’s skin colour. Over a quarter of people surveyed by LinkedIn have experienced discrimination based on their skin colour and three out of five of those people were First Nations. This is the brutal reality of systemic racism