7.4. The Gender, Racial, Ethnic, Religious, and Cultural Climate
Sometimes, in true onion fashion, one layer of company culture exists for white males and another one exists for women and people of color, minority race/ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Eric slowly began to discern that "the game" was different for him as an African American—and even more different as a gay African American. He was concerned, and rightfully so, that he couldn't play both the black person's and the gay person's game and win at both. So he had to play the game from which he couldn't hide, and he tried his best to conceal the other.
At one point, Eric tried (in a roundabout, totally clandestine, please-don't-let-this-backfire kind of way) to seek out a ...
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