As it happens, he didn't meet the study criteria. (If he had, I would have scheduled him to be seen by my burly coworker Steve.)
But you know, I've been working in this inner-city clinic for six years now. My clientele is pretty much exclusively poor inner-city African-Americans from astonishingly deprived backgrounds, with a few poor inner-city whites and the occasional middle-class African-American thrown in for a little diversity. I can honestly assure you that it has already occurred to me, over the course of the past six years, that there might be cultural and socioeconomic differences at play in my interactions with clients and research participants. I don't need an anonymous commenter to point it out.
I find it interesting that your assumption is that manners are the province of the middle class, and that because this guy was poor I shouldn't expect him to "know better." Do you actually know many poor African-Americans? My experience is that they are raised with much more strict etiquette expectations than middle-class white kids. 99% of my clients and research participants are perfectly aware that a sexualized approach to a stranger is not appropriate in a professional setting, and it's awfully prejudiced of you to make the assumption that their "culture" must include that sort of thing.
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But you know, I've been working in this inner-city clinic for six years now. My clientele is pretty much exclusively poor inner-city African-Americans from astonishingly deprived backgrounds, with a few poor inner-city whites and the occasional middle-class African-American thrown in for a little diversity. I can honestly assure you that it has already occurred to me, over the course of the past six years, that there might be cultural and socioeconomic differences at play in my interactions with clients and research participants. I don't need an anonymous commenter to point it out.
I find it interesting that your assumption is that manners are the province of the middle class, and that because this guy was poor I shouldn't expect him to "know better." Do you actually know many poor African-Americans? My experience is that they are raised with much more strict etiquette expectations than middle-class white kids. 99% of my clients and research participants are perfectly aware that a sexualized approach to a stranger is not appropriate in a professional setting, and it's awfully prejudiced of you to make the assumption that their "culture" must include that sort of thing.