I decided to interview my mom for this paper because she has had a significant role in my upbringing and she means a lot to me. Since my mom and I are very close, like best friend status, I already knew a lot about her which made the interviewing process much easier. My mom and I share a lot of the same views on many issues but have differing views on a few, especially under the diversity category. I live at home with my mom and father and so I see my mom everyday which is one reason why our viewpoints are similar, so we can both avoid cognitive dissonance and it makes the day to day living more manageable.
My mom was born in the 1960s, in Seattle Washington. She was one of 5 sisters, and 2 brothers to a father who was in the military off and on and a stay at home mom. She grew up strictly catholic, and even went to a Catholic high school. She …show more content…
Where she was growing up in that time period it wasn’t a very diverse area, or so she tells me, more like a small community where everyone was white and new everyone else. The section on Defining Racism further explains this situation. “Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families,” (65) mostly because of how social segregation plays a role in communities. My mom then went into specifics about different races and why she didn’t like them, placing one or two experiences she’s had into a category enough to classify to herself that the whole race of people acted in such a manner. These stereotypes she made helped to development her prejudice. The textbook defines prejudice as “a preconceived judgment or opinion, usually based on limited information,” (65) and her overall prejudices are so cruel and ignorant I will not be further discussing this issue in this
My mom was born in the 1960s, in Seattle Washington. She was one of 5 sisters, and 2 brothers to a father who was in the military off and on and a stay at home mom. She grew up strictly catholic, and even went to a Catholic high school. She …show more content…
Where she was growing up in that time period it wasn’t a very diverse area, or so she tells me, more like a small community where everyone was white and new everyone else. The section on Defining Racism further explains this situation. “Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families,” (65) mostly because of how social segregation plays a role in communities. My mom then went into specifics about different races and why she didn’t like them, placing one or two experiences she’s had into a category enough to classify to herself that the whole race of people acted in such a manner. These stereotypes she made helped to development her prejudice. The textbook defines prejudice as “a preconceived judgment or opinion, usually based on limited information,” (65) and her overall prejudices are so cruel and ignorant I will not be further discussing this issue in this