...One topic of diversity that I found very interesting is ethnic and racial minorities exposure to discrimination. This discrimination comes in various forms and can be very destructive to minority families. One thing that I learned a lot about was the concept of implicit bias. Implicit biases are attitudes or stereotypes that unconsciously affect our actions and understanding. Everyone has implicit biases that impact the way they treat others. Making yourself aware of these implicit biases can help prevent you from discriminating against others. Implicit biases can result in microaggressions, which are little remarks that, even though aren’t meant as offensive, are insulting. Microaggressions can sometimes meant to be positive, such as “you speak English so well”, but they are rooted in stereotypes. Microaggressions occur on a daily basis for many minorities, and are often compared to a mosquito bite. One or two may not be uncomfortable, but if they keep occurring they can cause a lot of damage. Another concept I learned a lot about was institutional racism. Institutional racism is the tendency of social institutions to treat groups differently because of their race. Institutions can be set up in such a way that allows on race to do very well, while simultaneously treating other races in a negative manner. One institution that seems to struggle with institutional racism is the education system. A clear example of institutional racism in the...
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...Michael Morris WRT-101 4/19/16 EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP “I spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work and my hand, but my hand will always be imperfect because it’s human. From a distance, it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that’s where the beauty is.”—Margaret Kilgallen. Art is the expression of human creative skill and creativity, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be loved primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Beauty is mixture of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, which please the senses, especially the sight. Creating something painting magnificent to draw the viewer’s eye. Art and beauty to me are very important. Art is all around: art is in music, photography, painting, singing, poetry, dancing, drawing, or even building something creative. Art is an amazing gift that everyone has within himself or herself. Music is a learning therapy and teaching tool. Music adjusts to our moods and used throughout our lives. Music leads to a healthy life. If you like it or not music is a huge part of our lives. Terry Guetta who owns a local clothing store in Los Angeles, and has this unusual obsession with videotaping. This obsession of recording everything happening in his life began after he started his family as a result of his missing childhood. What began as a hobby soon turned into Terry made-up leading him miles away from his family to board...
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...MASSIE CASE do any of the witnesses contradict each other, or themselves? Yes, because the main character Thalia claimed that she was raped by 5 men and that it was too dark to even notice their face or the vehicle, because it was too dark it's surprising that she even claimed that the 5 men were local hawaiians instead of 5 white men. What important details are missing, and how might you go about looking for them? Some important details that are missing are DNA to show that she was raped by that ethnic or anyone, beside the fact that she did drink a lot and they caused scenes, and also when she went to go see a UH psychologists and after a session with him the psychologists said that she was a disturbed young lady. What information is missing? There is a bunch of information that is missing like where she was kidnapped, because she doesn't even remember where at because the fact she was walking down a dirt road, A couple witnessed that thalia walked away with another white man, which wasn't her husband. How would you describe the news coverage at the time of the incident? Cite examples. News coverage was huge, because it was a white woman claiming that she had been raped by 5 z local hawaiians and samoans. It was so huge it was known across the nation from hawaii to the e east coast and back. It was on the news...
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...Scenarios 2 shows the most obvious scene of microaggression. Scenarios 2 shows microaggressive by the professor saying that “If you want to stay and work in this country after graduation, you need to improve your english.” This is an assumption that all asian are not from this country. Also, it implies that all asian cannot speak english well. Most people can speak and understand english pretty well, it’s just that writing it out is hard. So I think that it’s offensive to judge someone essay on how well they can understand english. I myself can speak and understand english clearly, but I’m not so good when it comes to writing. My reaction from reading scenario 2 was anger. I felt angry reading scenario 2 because of how rude the teacher was...
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...Microaggression: “a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority)” (Merriam- Webster) Microaggression have become in recent years part of the conversation on race in America. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric sheds light on microaggression towards people of color in American society. She uses poetry and pictures to weave a story about race in America today. Yet race problems are not something new in human history, in Shakespeare’s Othello named after the main character who is a black man, in an all white society. Othello married Desdemona, a white venetian women and around them the plot circles. Microaggression have been part of our society for awhile. These two text show race is two different societies and time periods. Yet the similarities between race relation in each text, begs the question how far we really come in race relations. Citizen and Othello shed light on...
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...As microaggressions are described as “brief and commonplace daily verbal or behavioral and environmental indignities whether intentional or unintentional that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group” (Sue, Capodilupo, Torino, Bucceri, Holder, Nadal, & Esquilin, 2007). This reminded me of my experience during my first placement as a student social worker. I held a program of inviting local Hong Kong students to hang out with children original from Pakistan but were born in Hong Kong. During that program, I failed to mention in the briefing for local students about how to avoid discrimination. Therefore, when a child went into a shop to check out some caps, one of the local students...
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...between Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine and What is White Privilege? by Christine Emba both showcase the concepts of microaggressions and white privilege. Many examples of microaggressions and white privilege are common between the two texts, but the examples in the texts are manifested in different ways. For example, in Citizen, An American Lyric Rankine writes many personal accounts of microaggressions targeted at and experienced by black people. While in What is White Privilege? by Christine Emba the author discusses examples of white privilege while providing evidence and statistics to back it up. Also, in What is White the Privilege, Emba explains that the concept of white privilege has been and will continue to be misinterpreted by people and that it exists in American society even though some Americans don’t believe it exists or is a problem....
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...The term microaggression is defined as a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other non-dominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype. The word micro is defined as small, very small in comparison with others of its kind, which in my opinion is exactly what microagression is, too small to even be considered an issue. Some might say my opinion is invalid since I do not belong to any minority groups nor have I had to deal with microagression, but I believe that this is more so an issue on the rights of citizens and free speech that is our born right in United States of America. Now I don’t believe everyone should be going around saying offensive statements to individuals or groups...
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...Racism and discrimination have always been a relentless conflict in our society. It’s an evident obstacle that has been a part of The United States’ history and is still a part of today’s society. Most people are not oblivious to the fact that racism and discrimination exist, but have yet to familiarize themselves with the term microaggression. Microaggression is a form of discrimination that is often more subtle than overt racism and may be unintentional. In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” she details a variety of racial/cultural offenses that create a sense of marginality in her life as an African American. Similarly, in Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” he describes many racial problems African Americans are conflicted with throughout his lifetime by telling us through his personal experience. Microaggression is a more harmful form of discrimination than overt racism because it is sometimes said or done unintentionally and is not recognized as a wrongful action meaning it can be overlooked by society and interpreted as normal behavior. “You are late, you nappy-headed ho” (Rankine 41). These were the words said to the author by a white woman who was her friend. Rankine immediately took offense to this and was appalled to the precise set of words that had came out of her friends mouth. She was in shock as that person had never referred to her in that way and responded, what did you say? The woman could not find a way to repeat herself, possibly...
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...It’s time to recognize that our daily vocabulary just isn’t acceptable anymore, we hide microaggressions in our conversations and deny their existence. Sexist, ableist, and racist language has become part of our culture and we need to stop. Internalized racism isn’t acceptable racism. Microaggressions are the foundation of hostile environments, and have massive impacts. "A lot of white people should shut up and listen. They really don't know what the African-American experience truly is. When you have people getting shot in their cars for no reason and being put in fucking jail cells and it's for profit, we have a serious problem, and the first thing you need to do is get educated. Don't try to do this, like, 'Blue lives matter.' Don't try...
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...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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...I’m writing to you as a fan of your work. I believe your article titled “5 Ways America Is Creating a Generation of Wimps” has pointed out some important points. You claim that Americans have gone from “the toughest, most independent society" into "a wuss factory.” I believe that this article couldn’t be any more true. To the main point, I am writing because I support your opinions, banning the phrase “bossy” is absurd. Microaggressions aren’t real (who came up with it?!). The whole reason your self esteem is boosted is through accomplishments, not participation awards. Calling someone “bossy” shouldn’t demoralize a leader, if it does, that person shouldn't lead. In paragraph 7 of your article, you use Sarah Palin as an example on why banning...
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...However, I partially participated in only one of the discussions, the race/ethnicity discussion. I asked a friend to share my story because I didn’t feel comfortable doing it myself. I’ve always felt uncomfortable participating in these types of discussions. Nevertheless, from the discussions, I personally gain more awareness about these topics. I learned about how the country is affected by race, ethnicity, and stereotypes. If I could change how I participated in discussions, I wished I had participated more because I had my own thoughts and opinions that would benefit the discussions. However, I discouraged myself and chose not to share my thoughts. From journal #1 about microaggressions, I learned about how everything could be assumed as a microaggressions, even thought they weren’t meant as one. Microaggressions are everyday verbal sayings or physical actions that suggests unsympathetic insults towards other people, whether they were unintentional or intentional. During the discussion and the short...
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...hate crime, and I would like to talk about him today. He did nothing wrong yet he was killed. This was a tragic event and we need to learn from it. We need to bring hate crimes to the front of our minds and talk about what's happening in our school and in the world. In addition to hate crimes I’m going to talk about microaggressions, which is the bigger concern in relation to this school. A hate crime is a crime committed because of race, background, national origin, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. It can include harassment, violence, or threats, towards a person, family or their property. Joseph Ileto is an Asian-American who was murdered based solely on the fact that...
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...Speaking as a college student today, I face the racial ghost of the Jim Crow past, experience implications that African Americans have faced before, and if the trend continues reality suggests that I will face them forever. As my identity of a black man in America, it is constantly being attacked, with many microaggressions I battle outside in the world. Inside, it is tiresome, mentally it is like being paper cut 3,000 times with wounds that heal slowly and being left with scars that never leave. With microaggressions To set right Racial Battle Fatigue is to stop microaggressions in its tracks. “Recognizing and Interrupting” is a remedy to stop microaggressions. By “Recognizing and Interrupting”, includes taking the action to interrupt the oppressive action after it has been recognized. This is very important, because this will lead individual to more of an anti-oppression approach to microaggressions. “Educating Self”, being more educated in microaggressions, and the effects it has on an individual can actually improve skills to handling...
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