What I learned

What I have leaned so far in the class and from the readings are the two different levels, macro and meso. Another thing I am going to discuss that we have covered in class is conditioning. 

  The macro level shows us that our development of character starts at a very young age. Why? As young kids we are affected by the events that take place in our life. For example, the absence of a parent or the death of a parent. Things like this are major factors in young kids lives and it adds to their self identity, shaping them for probably a more stressful, curious, wondrous life. Causing the kid to go through life wondering why me? A kid like this would probably go through life not trusting anyone or trusting someone will be hard for them. To where a person with both parents in their life may find it easier to trust people because they haven't felt betrayed at a young age. As a younging at the macro level you don't really have a full understanding of what's going on, why  you are acting the way you are. Speaking on that, this then sets you up for conditioning, which is also another thing we've been talking about in class. When your so young and your already "acting up" you become accustomed to this type of behavior. You then get to a point in your life where you actually understand your behavior isn't right, yet you continue to act the way you've been acting growing up. Oppose to the macro level I feel like this is an older stage so you can realize your actions clearly and react or get help to them. Another thing I have learned is how people use stereotypes to judge you. For example, a White person sends in a a job application, and his name on it is Jaquin. The job rejects his application because they think that's he's a African American. People judge you off what other people the same race or ethnicity as you do, off the mistakes that those people make. They fail to realize that everyone from the same place is not the same. Another thing I've leaned from this class is that a lot of us fail to realize who we really are. We all like to believe we are "known" and we are the coolest people wherever we go, but we all know in reality that's just not how it is. The kids that aren't identified or thought as of a cool kid they tend to get left out by the "cool" group. People like to identify who we are based off the type of clothes that we wear because it shows people how much money we have, or even whether we pay for lunch or not. So many different thing go into play when identifying your self or being identified by other people. In my opinion others people opinions on your identity doesn't mater because they aren't you and most people have no idea of what your family has or what they don't.