Edad 524 Reflection

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During the first class of EDAD 524 in this summer, professor Fujimoto held an activities that every students marked their true opinions about their identities by different colors. From the class discussion, I realized that if we were diverse in this cohort, how it could be more diverse in American society. Everyone had their own minds about their identities, such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion so that it is critical for both current and future student affair to be aware the knowledge of social justice, and understand how specific historical and cultural conditions have impacts on domination and subordination(Adams, et. al., 2013). I noticed that these issues will be a big challenge for me because I come from an area of China

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