Who Claims Me As an Ally?

I am calling anyone who has an interest to support HongKongers in the UK to reach out to me. Read on.

"As a Chinese middle aged women who recently relocated to the North Wales recently, what would be the the odds of finding good employment ?"

What I believe in the first place determines what I see, and what I see will be confirms my belief. I am not a passive receiver of information, but an active engineer of my belief system. If this is the case, what kind of belief is helpful and valuable for me right now ?

According to the Ivey Business School. Foundation of equity and inclusive practice are:

Create more self-awarenss

What part of your identity did you come to know first?

What parts of your idenity do you believe has the greatest effect on how others perceive you?

What parts of you identity are most salient to you?

Nationality

Ancestry

Multi-language

Religious or Spiritual Affiliation

Race

Ethnicity

Socio-Economic Status

Age

Culture

Education

Mental Health

Nurodiversity

Differently Abled and/or Disabled

Physcial Health (e.g. experiences of chronic issues, experiences of health issues)

Secual orientation

Gender

Sex

Step 1: Understand where and how privilege and oppression operate in our lives.

Privilege - Advantages or resources granted to some social groups that are unavilable to other groups.

Oppression - A system that maintains disadvantages on either an individual, institutional, and/or cultural level.

Step 2: Understand the difference about Equality Vs Equity Vs Justice

Equality - means each individual or group of people are given the same resources or opporunties to succeed.

Equity - a promotion of fairness and justice for each individual by providing everyone with tailored necessary resrouces to overcome individual barriers that are a result of systemic forms of oppression.

Justice - a collective responsibility to create a free and just society, to ensure that civil and human rights are preserved and protected for each individual.

Step 3: Commit to using our privilleages to intervene in systems or scenarios where inequity has or is occuring.

White Privilagee

Light Skin Privilege

Citizenship Privilege

Gender Privilege

Socio-econimic Priledges

Religious Privileges

Cis-Het Priviledges

Ability Privileges

First Language

English Fluency

Body Size

Age

Step 4: Enusre we interrogate our biases, make them conscious and recognisable.

Conscious Bias - is prejudice against a person or group of people in comparison to another person or group of people that results in the unfair treatment of people. It is imporant to note that bias is not only limited to racial or ethnic prejudice and can extend to gender, religion, age and ability.

Unconscious Biases - are social stereotypes of people that have unknowingly formed through socialization and further reinforced through everyday behaviours and how we view the world.

Step 5: Who claims me as an ally? Instead of claiming to be an ally.

Allyship - is a verb. It is a lifetime committement to unlearning, self-education, receiving constructive criticism, learning from mistakes, doing research, and having difficult conversations. Allyship is about understanding the power and privileges you hold and learning to use your voice and actions to extend the benefits of your privilege to those around you.

Step 6: Become contant learners and unlearners of ourselves, and the system we life and work within, so that that we can ACTION what we learn and unlearn.

Racist - To believe that one or more races are superior to others. A racist is inclined to feel discinmination for prejudice against people of other races.

Non-Racist - The acknowledgement that all humans have an equal right to respect ad tolerance without engaging in dimentling sytems of oppression.

Anti-Racist - The active process of redistributing power equitably by idnentifying and eliminating organisational, structural and individual forms of racism.

Step 7: Starting Point

Have difficult conversations - Normalise talking to your colleagues, community and loved ones about anti-black, anti-indigenous, anti-Asian and other euqity related issues.

Learn - Read articles, what videos, listen to podcasts.

Self-inventory check - Learning can include the develolpment of your identities and the deconstruction of normalised biases.

Listen to hear & empathise - Assess your thougth processes and behaviours when engaging with others. Ask yourself why you do or think about things in a certain way? You can also ask yousself, are you in an echo chamber?

Be prepared to get called in

Learn how to call others in

"I am called to be an ally of Hongkongers who immigrated to the UK in recent years who want to integrate to the UK culture, start a new career and contribute to the UK society and economy."

And I am calling anyone who has an interest to support HongKongers to have a better transition into their UK life to reach out to me for an informal chat. The IDRRMI and a group of coaches and mediators are designing a programme of support for HongKongers in the UK. You can contact us at:

Selana Kong - Managing Director, IDRRMI

Phone/Whatsapp: +44 7955043512

Email: uk.admin@idrrmi.org

The International Dispute Resolution & Risk Management Institute is an WTO accredited NGO for the setting of the professional standards of international dispute Resolution and risk management services and practitioners. It has established a global network of over 300 legal, dispute and risk management, chambers of commerce, professional organizations and government departments. HKIMC have over 900 professional mediation experts to provide international mediation services to over 50 regions globally. Visit idrrmi.org to find out more.