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Choose three of the clips listed below for viewing. Using the Discussion Board Rubric listed below as a guide, develop a well-thought-out original response by defending the value of cultural competence in the workforce and in the community. Next, identify practices that maximize the abilities of all employees/groups to meet organizational goals. Please identify the scene(s) you are referencing and support your views with an outside reference or source.









Part 2 of 2:
From NPR:
"So youre at work one day and youre talking to your colleagues in that professional, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that people use when theyre doing professional work stuff. Your mom or your friend or your partner calls on the phone and you answer. And without thinking, you start talking to them in an entirely different voice  still distinctly your voice, but a certain kind of your voice less suited for the office. You drop the gs at the end of your verbs. Your previously undetectable accent  your easy Southern drawl or your sing-songy Caribbean lilt or your Spanish-inflected vowels or your New Yawker  is suddenly turned way, way up. You rush your mom or whomever off the phone in some less formal syntax (Yo, Imma holler at you later), hang up and get back to work.Then you look up and you see your co-workers looking at you and wondering who the hell youd morphed into for the last few minutes. That right there? Thats what it means to code-switch".
Review the two video clips listed below. Write a summary of what you read and how it applies to the video clips, also addressing the following questions:

Do you code switch?
What do you gain from it?
Think about how you react to people who speak the way Idris speaks on the basketball court. 

Contrast that with the way you react to people who speak the way Idris speaks off the court.
What assumptions do you make about people based on the way they speak?


Do a search on the Internet for videos that illustrate "code switching" and share the ones you found most interesting.