...Microaggressions in Everyday Life Chinese people consist of the majority—Han and other 55 ethnic minorities, such as Hui, also called Muslim Chinese. Han and Hui have different living customs. For example, Hui are forbidden to eat pork while pork is the most common meat consumed by Han. In my high school, there were two dinning rooms: a big one for Han students, and the other small one for Hui students. I had dinner with my friend-Qian, who was Hui, but stayed with me in Han Chinese dinning room on that day. I enjoyed my pork dish, and wanted to share it with her but she refused. Qian explained, “I am Hui people, we do not eat pork.” I did not give up and said, “Come on, I have known you for ages, we are the same, we are all Chinese people. I can not see any differences.” My friend began to keep silent, and I kept persuading her, “just try one slice of the pork, they are really delicious”. However, my friend frowned and said “I can not eat it. The smell of the pork makes me sick”. After hearing her words, I stopped persuading her to eat pork because I did not want to make her uncomfortable. Then we began to talk other topics. I was unaware that what I committed was a microaggression at that time. Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional happening in daily life, conveying communicating hostile, derogatory,...
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...African-American College Students: Personal History, Struggles, and Graduation Rheon Gibson Northern Illinois University Abstract In this report, I discuss the importance of African-American college students in higher education realms and why the topic appeals to my interests. I will also identify trends in research questions, methodology, and research findings; regarding three identified themes; Personal History, Struggles, and Graduation. In addition, I will provide the reader with an evaluation/critique of the existing literature, including; 1) contributions of literature to the field, 2) overall strengths, 3) overall weaknesses, 4) missing elements, and 5) what are the next steps for research. African-American College Students: Personal History, Struggles, and Graduation Introduction Importance to the Field Educational attainment amongst African-Americans is a crucial concept that not only affects African-American communities but it also affects society as a whole. Education provides a solid foundation for individuals to experience personal growth, increase one’s socioeconomic status, and obtain professional careers and licensures. Obtaining higher education does not begin upon admission to an accredited college or university; instead, it begins when one is first introduced to the educational system. This introduction can be in Kindergarten, Pre-K, the first year of home school, or wherever the first fundamental steps of acquiring a higher knowledge of comprehension...
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...Sexism Still Exists (Paper start) In a recent UK survey, it was found that almost 1 in 3 girls have experienced unwanted sexual touching in school, while 1 in 5 people said it was acceptable in certain situations for a man to hit his female partner for wearing revealing clothing. (ukfeminista, 2012) (Evidence here.) Sexism is still relevant in modern society, and found in the form of gender roles and harassment, on the street and in the workplace. What exactly is gender? Gender is the biological, social, and legal status of a human being, labeled as man or woman. Gender identity is the way a person expresses themselves. Gender and gender identity does not always match. Gender identity can be expressed as masculine or feminine. Masculine...
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...groups? Identify Mark Kiselica’s emotional roadblocks to developing cultural competence. How come Mark Kiselica over-identified with people of color? What influenced Derald Sue to go into multicultural psychology? Compare and contrast the journey's of Mark Kiselica and Derald Sue CHAPTER 2 What challenges do you think counselors face in gaining cultural competence? Would you be willing to explore your own racism, sexism, heterosexism, able-body-ism as it relates to cultural competence? If so, why? If not, why not? What is worldview? How does your worldview influence how you relate to other people, institutions, nature, time, etc.? As a counselor, how would you implement the Multidimensional Model of ultural Competence into your work with clients? What are some culturally appropriate intervention strategies and techniques thatyou can use when working with diverse clients? If you have used interventions in the past, please discuss your success or failure with your interventions. Why might some organizations resist becoming multicultural in nature? Why is it important to understand group-specific worldviews in developing cultural competence? Speculate on some of the challenges...
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...Trigger Warnings is not bad idea to start adopting in our colleges and Universities. We are becoming so insensitive, with ourselves, as well respecting or understanding people’s feelings. We live in a society where, we want bluntness disregarding the consequences, or how it may affect people with traumatic events. The nuance of this controversial topic Trigger Warnings has arisen and we have to take in consideration that if students are asking for them, because there’s a whole reason for it. Trigger warning advocates a voice of students that can’t speak for themselves, about their fears, and what affects topics affects them in a classroom setting. Trigger warning and content notes are two different things that we need to understand. Trigger warnings is a clear and specific way of alerting students of certain information that would be discussed in class, example panic attacks due to strong material related to race, abortion or, war related material with high graphical content that could cause a student with PTSD could have flash backs. On like Content Notes, is different, it is a theoretical value to a neutral meaning that allows people to make a decision whether they want to engage in a material or not. But content notes doesn’t really serve the purpose as trigger warnings, although it could be associated, but in rare cases it talks about trauma content, or larger societal issues that provokes individual harm. We are not God or mind readers to judge people because of the...
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...Racism has been a widely recognized and practiced dynamic within the United States, that as discussed in class, rationalizes institutional and cultural practices that formalized the hierarchical domination of one racial group. Racial stratification for African Americans as well as many other minorities, cannot only effect certain races physically, but mentally. Mental health as a social construct can be influential to an individual’s psychological health, and differential exposure to deleterious race-related experiences along with generic vicissitudes, for African Americans, may create higher rates for poorer mental health. Though race is not a real concept but rather created by society, it does serve as an important aspect concerning the...
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...Their research showed the negative effects on self esteem and social development caused by racial stereotyping and inaccurate racial portrayals. From their research they were able to conclude that “the continued use of American Indian mascots, symbols, images and personalities has a negative effect on not only American Indian students but all students” (APA), This includes a number of different manners such as: forming stereotypes, creating discrimination towards a group of people, creating a hostile learning environment for American Indian students, and creating difficulties in allowing American Indians to accurately portray symbols and representations of their cultural and traditions. The APA is very decisive on their decision and determined that American Indian names and mascots have no place in schools...
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...Not only are most reporters who interact with the public, white, straight, and cisgendered, but members of the LGBTQ community are underrepresented in the journalism field. The majority of these individuals who are employed in this area, mostly work in privatized sectors, as ordered by their employer, or remain “in the closet” in fear of losing their job, being demoted, or that their abilities and worth will be undermined by their colleagues. Homophobic, sexist, or transphobic exchanges are often circulated around the newsroom, where, “the new level of openness among gays and lesbians created an uneasy tension inside the newsroom,” because of the anti-gay norms that existed for so long (Alwood 161). These queer reporters are even tokenized and their queerness is generalized onto their entire being, leading to ideas that “homosexuality was the only subject he (they) could write about” (Alwood 157), although only 73 percent of gay and lesbian reporters have actually ever covered a queer...
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