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Why the South China Morning Post, like the city we call home, is one great melting pot
- With well over 700 people of nearly 30 different nationalities at the Post, a more diverse workplace is hard to find
- The Post also places great importance on gender equality, with our news platform having a section dedicated to journalism on women’s issues
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There was a time when I considered myself to be as “minority” as they come among Hong Kong’s ethnic minority demographic.
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For years since I first started working as a rookie reporter in this city in the lead-up to its 1997 transfer of sovereignty to China, most local people would tell me I was the first Tibetan journalist they had ever encountered, if not the first Tibetan person full stop.
We used to joke back then that any company that hired me would instantly fill its diversity quota – and those were relatively unenlightened days when employers were not so big on concepts such as diversity and inclusivity.
I wore my extra-minority status as a badge of pride – being different and distinct somehow felt special. Not any more.
Fast forward to today, well into my ninth year at the South China Morning Post, and I’m still the only Tibetan in our newsroom – but no longer such a rarity. This place is a melting pot, a veritable United Nations of journalists and related professionals.
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