Each key has a specific purpose, promotes unconscious awareness, and has potential to help eliminate unconscious bias (Theiderman, 2015). Moreover, the most powerful way to defeat unconscious bias is to identify things we have in common with the individual or group of people who the bias is supposed to be against (Theiderman, 2015). Identifying these commonalities could have potential to shed light on hidden similarities as well as differences. For example, the survey exercise that we completed in class was an excellent example of hidden similarities that became known. If you recall, the survey results revealed 95% of us have family members who have served in the military, and 80% of us have a close friend or a family member with an emotional
