Service Learning Reflection

In our social justice class, we have learned many lessons that can help us make daily life and society as a whole better. We have learned how to handle real life situations and how some groups are more advantaged than other groups. For this reason, we were assigned to write how we would handle some hypothetical problems and what we learned from our service learning. Doing these problems will show what I have gotten out of the class and what I will bring with me to help the world become a better place in the future. As part of the class, we had to do service learning. The point of the service learning was to learn that giving is receiving. I feel like I did learn this lesson from doing service learning. While doing service learning, I could see that the workers and the few residents who were there while I did my service learning were happy to have help. It made me happy to see the people I was helping, happy as well. Outside of that, I did not gain anything else that helped me learn that lesson but I do not feel like anything else is needed to teach me that lesson. …show more content…
I would say something because it is clearly making other family members uncomfortable, and it is possible that they do not want to say something because they do not want to feel like they are the ones ruining the fun. Doing so may also make the family members who are uncomfortable, gain more courage to speak out when they are uncomfortable about homophobic jokes or similar situations. I would also stop them as letting them tell those jokes might make my cousins who are telling them come off as homophobic, even if that is not their intention. Some people might also take the jokes seriously and become more bias toward gay people as a result, so that is another reason I would stop