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I live in an 3rd world Asian country, where racism is not a big theme that people discuss everyday like in the US, for example. There's very few, if at all, acts of racism seen on the street or on the news here.
I graduated from university 3 years ago and am currently working. My workplace is multinational and diverse. I never even care about that, to be honest. I treat everyone the same, regardless of where they are from. Different skin colors, different accents, different cultures etc. don't make a difference to me when it comes to work. To me, humans are humans.
The company has this annual team-building activity event thing for employees. I guess most companies do. This year is about fruits, i.e. each team is assigned a fruit and has to create themes around it . I'm usually not a very outgoing person so in previous years I just let others lead and I simply followed. This year, suddenly I had this urge to take the initiative , and my downfall ensued.
Each team was provided with this big white blank vinyl banner where we can put things on, e.g. words, pictures, drawings. During lunch hour, instead of going down to the canteen like everyone else, I stayed back at the office and worked on my team's banner alone. I looked for funny pictures of people with fruits on the internet, printed a pic out in big size and stuck them to the banner. After I finished decorating, I hung the banner up high on the wall so everyone could see, thinking when my teammates and everyone else came back, they were gonna be so impressed by my enthusiasm and my craft.
Our team's assigned fruit is banana. This is the picture I picked: https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/obama-with-wife-banana.jpg
I'm having a meeting with HR tomorrow.
TL;DR Never had a single racist thought in life. Printed out a racist picture without knowing and stuck it on the office's wall. Became a racist. Future probably ruined.
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