Listening to my recording that I did in the beginning of this course was great to do because it showed me how far I have come in terms of how comfortable I am talking about the privileges that I get. I do not think that I was surprised to hear any of my responses but I could tell how nervous and uncomfortable I was. I think that if I answered the same questions again, my answers should pretty much stay the same but I would be more confident in my answers. While I was listening to my recording, I felt proud to see how far I have come since the beginning of this course. I really tell how the unsureness of my identities has turned into confidence. I learned how hard it used to be for me to admit all of the privileges that I get especially
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My understanding of institutional racism is that our society is run by the dominant group, who are in charge of the majority of the institutions, so therefore the institution cater to the dominant population. This began many years ago and has continued into today’s society. Racism is so embedded into every aspect of our society that we just continue this cycle year after year. Our institutions offer advantages to the dominant groups and disadvantages to the non-dominant …show more content…
One of the resources would be the Paul Marcus interview. He described the example of the American culture being shaped around racism and oppression (Marcus, n.d.). He explained how there is this web of racism that people of color have to navigate through or eventually get stuck in because they are of color (Marcus, n.d.). Listening to Paul Marcus explain systemic racism really helped me with understanding how our society works and people of color get caught up in the cycle of systemic racism.
Another resource that has helped me is the video The Story We Tell. In this video, it showed how the American culture dominated everyone else. The immigrants that traveled from overseas had to conform to society to fit in but a consequence of this was losing their cultural identities (Cheng, 2003). This showed me that my privilege as being white allowed me to hold on to my culture and not have to conform because I was already the
My understanding of institutional racism is that our society is run by the dominant group, who are in charge of the majority of the institutions, so therefore the institution cater to the dominant population. This began many years ago and has continued into today’s society. Racism is so embedded into every aspect of our society that we just continue this cycle year after year. Our institutions offer advantages to the dominant groups and disadvantages to the non-dominant …show more content…
One of the resources would be the Paul Marcus interview. He described the example of the American culture being shaped around racism and oppression (Marcus, n.d.). He explained how there is this web of racism that people of color have to navigate through or eventually get stuck in because they are of color (Marcus, n.d.). Listening to Paul Marcus explain systemic racism really helped me with understanding how our society works and people of color get caught up in the cycle of systemic racism.
Another resource that has helped me is the video The Story We Tell. In this video, it showed how the American culture dominated everyone else. The immigrants that traveled from overseas had to conform to society to fit in but a consequence of this was losing their cultural identities (Cheng, 2003). This showed me that my privilege as being white allowed me to hold on to my culture and not have to conform because I was already the