Furthermore, my second year placement was at Jane and Finch Ontario Early Year Centre (OEYC). Before starting my placement, I was worried about the community that my centre was located. I searched, “Jane Finch Mall” in the Google and I found few articles about shooting and murders. I was very hesitant to go there for the first time. However, when I actually got there and met the people at Jane-Finch OEYC, I found out it was a very pleasant place to be at. In fact, these people were one of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life. I was quite shamed about myself of unknowingly having the prejudice and stereotype against the people who live in this area. According to Angelini, these kind of prejudgment can be seen as necessary, as we all need to organize the stimuli basis of statement or belief and it occurs in spite of evidence (2012, p.108). After 12 weeks of placement, I concluded that Jane and Finch community wasn’t as bad as what it was portrayed on the media.
Living life as an Asian, Korean, I think that my ethnicity and race was a major part of my identity. Being born and growing up in my home country definitely plays a big part of my life because of the different culture and the environment. It is interesting and sometimes funny to watch people react differently and treat me differently …show more content…
They all have their favorites and usually you can sense the racism even if they try to hide it. On the other hand, the media creates and sends a very strong message and makes it very obvious that white people are dominant and others are the minorities. Almost every advertisement, magazine covers, shows, cartoons and movies have white people as their main character and other race as their less important people. Like it shows on television, most princesses in Disney movies are white, slim, long haired beautiful looking white
Living life as an Asian, Korean, I think that my ethnicity and race was a major part of my identity. Being born and growing up in my home country definitely plays a big part of my life because of the different culture and the environment. It is interesting and sometimes funny to watch people react differently and treat me differently …show more content…
They all have their favorites and usually you can sense the racism even if they try to hide it. On the other hand, the media creates and sends a very strong message and makes it very obvious that white people are dominant and others are the minorities. Almost every advertisement, magazine covers, shows, cartoons and movies have white people as their main character and other race as their less important people. Like it shows on television, most princesses in Disney movies are white, slim, long haired beautiful looking white