Raekwon Strickland
Mr.Cassidy
Diversity and Social Justice
9/20/15
In the text we read throughout the week I learned a lot from the book and also classroom discussions. In class we talked about the cycle of prejudice and so far 2 parts of it. The two parts are conditioning and thoughts and expectations. The conditioning part of this cycle is used as another word for brainwash. This could be good or bad. In school it is good because we learn about brotherhood and a sense of community with one another. It can be bad such as when a parent raises their child. They can tell the child anything they want or to pass along to the next child. A parent can tell there kid that blacks are bad and dangerous this is bad conditioning and is getting a kid to believe that a whole race is bad or inferior to them. Thoughts and expectations are a huge part of the cycle of prejudice. We talked about everyday roles in society and saw if men or women was the main person we thought of having that job. Such as doctor and nurse. Most people said doctors are male and said nurses are female. This is prejudice because it's basically sexism making a certain gender have jobs. Making women inferior to men. We also talked about words and the first race or ethnic group that comes to mind. When terrorism was written everyone said Muslims or Arabs even though white people are terrorist to this country sometimes too.
The book taught me a lot as well. In the book called Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. I saw how the micro, meso and macro works in our everyday life. The meso level is our comfortability with ourselves based on who we are and what our problems are in life. This will determine how we will act our everyday life. The meso level is how others see us everyday and ask who we are and where we are from. This will show the way others treat us in our school, churches, or work every day based on what they think of us. And the biggest level is the macro level. This is how the world see us and this how we get racism or any other isms that exist. The world sees us off of what others that look like us do and automatically assume. Media does a good job at making a certain people look bad and look down upon. They make all blacks look bad and used to make blacks look less than human making pictures of us look like monkeys. They also do this to arabs and muslims making them all look like terrorists and dangerous to America. This is a bad way to look at them and is very prejudice to them to be look upon as a terrorist everywhere they go. These can also be called stereotypes of how people see us through media brainwashing them. What can we do to to change this prejudice in the US and all over.
Raekwon,
ReplyDeleteThe reason for reading these readings and asking you to reflect on yourselves and the circles of your life (micro, meso, and macro), it is my hope that each one of you can start to reflect on how the cycle of prejudice can be interrupted in each of your lives. The more people that we can get to reflect on their own situations and the more that are willing for challenge their own conditioning, the more we are likely to bring about some change in our society.
Raekwon,
ReplyDeleteThe reason for reading these readings and asking you to reflect on yourselves and the circles of your life (micro, meso, and macro), it is my hope that each one of you can start to reflect on how the cycle of prejudice can be interrupted in each of your lives. The more people that we can get to reflect on their own situations and the more that are willing for challenge their own conditioning, the more we are likely to bring about some change in our society.