Thursday, December 15, 2011

Racial Discrimination

        During this unit on race I realized that sometimes I have implicit bias. After watching Angry Eye and Crash  I noticed that I had some of the superstitions and made the same assumptions as the characters. The first time I watched Crash during the scene of the young white policeman and african american car stealer, I assumed that the african american car stealer had a gun in his hand.
       But, I feel like I redeemed myself of these thoughts because I agreed with everything Jane Elliot was saying in Angry Eye. People think its the end of the world when someone talks behind their back or they get a C on a paper, but people of color go through racial discrimination every day. They cannot walk away from their problems like the white girl did during the activity. She knew it was part of a lecture and that she would receive college credit for it, but she acted like it was killing her.
      Also, I learned never to tell a person of color that you see don't see their color. That is removing a part of their culture and identity. The world is not black and white, and people need to acknowledge the differences between each other in a positive way for racial discrimination to disappear.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Video/Social Class Reaction

After watching this video I realized that bread can actually determine social class. I've never thought about it before so it's weird thinking about it now. My mom buys wonder bread and my dad buys all the whole grain/different types of bread and I thought this was funny because my moms strict about money but my dads a shopaholic.

I now have a different view about the upper class. The stereotype of the social class is stuck up and arrogant, but I never thought they were ACTUALLY like that until I heard the "WASP" talk about himself so highly. He thought that the people he associated with were all beautiful and clean and sweet while the poor are unintelligent and not fit for his group. It was so annoying to hear him talk about himself and look down upon others.

Also, I think it's annoying that black upper class and black middle class is different from white upper class and white middle class. The upper class blacks are just as uppity as the white middle class, they should not be isolated because they are "not like other blacks".