How to use microaffirmations to build inclusion

Noam Chomsky once said: ‘A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.’

Over the past few years, the language of diversity has changed.

You may have noticed the changes; maybe you embraced the new terminology and found it easy to expand your vocabulary. Or perhaps you are wondering how to keep up with the ever-changing landscape.

We examined why people found understanding and using diversity words challenging, particularly when it came to words and black people. There were four reasons why people were cautious: