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Sansoldier posted...

Yeah, that sounds rough, though it's a good opportunity for getting to know people who are completely different.

Try to get them to talk about themselves more to find some common ground.

If they're older, do they have kids around your age? Do they have more generic interests like coffee, certain TV shows, etc? Might need to read up a bit on those kinds of things as well. You can also just talk about work if they're someone that is proud of their accomplishments.

Yea, Im not completely unable to converse. Like, I dont care about golf. But Ive managed to talk with the people who do by just being inquisitive about why they like watching/playing golf so much and just joking about my lack of knowledge.

Everyone who has kids are young kids, so I just draw comparisons to my nieces/nephews.

Overall, its not impossible, but its definitely not that enjoyable having to try so hard to find common ground. Granted, these guys seem to live finance when to me, I dont really come from that world.

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The job is in a predominantly white city and on more than one occasion I am referenced when trying to praise the branch for having diversity.

One of my coworkers just assumed I could read a foreign language. One that looked African.

One of the frat guys, unprompted, feels the need to always mention his neighbor is black and that they get along as if thats unusual or important to say.

Nothing particularly obstructive, but just things that are annoying.

Like, I thought people saying I speak American was a meme. But one of these dudes legit said Yea, if you can speak Spanish, German, and American, you are super versatile in the workforce!.

And Im just like no way.