Activity2

Diversity In My Field And The Impact Of It

My name is Katlyn and I am a HRIM major (Hospitality and Restaurant Management). For most people when they hear that they ask “Are you going to ever own or open your own place?” I quickly answer with “absolutely no” every time. Most of the time I get laughs but then there are the people who are interested in hearing why. I tell them that there are too many rules and regulations to keep up with and that I would never be able to keep my neck above water just for the fact I don’t think I could handle the responsibility of dealing with all of that plus run my staff and do everything else. But one of the biggest reasons is the big issue with diversity in our field that stretches from race, age, gender, national origin, and etc. This is a big issue any more because people feel the need to discriminate and give the “foreign” individuals a hard time. It’s all because if there accent, how they talk, dress, smell, act, or color of their skin. None of these should be a reason to give someone a hard time, but the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of Hispanics and “foreign” people that work in the field of hospitality. When you get a lot of different types of people working together in one place you’re going to see a lot of different attitudes and personalities and at times they will collide. But a lot of the times people will take shots at people just because they don’t “speak normal, look normal, or come from the same country as Americans and etc.” That’s just some things that I’ve personally seen and heard from working in the hospitality industry. I just think some of the things people say are just through negativity of their own lives and have a hard time being accepted so they feel the need to pick on someone they did not grow up around nor cared for just because their parents put some sort of mental mold on people and the way they should act, dress, and talk. But the field is going to grow with more and new people from all over and until we can drop the race card and all the other things that get people worked up for nothing were going to have to deal with a lot different arguments and conflicts.