Growing up in an upper-middle class, prominently white town of about six thousand people, I haven’t been exposed to much diversity. Although I live ten miles outside of one of the biggest and most diverse cities in Minnesota, I graduated with about 125 kids - maybe two percent of which being mixed or a person of color. Both of my parents grew up in large, diverse cities and have lived around the country, including Arizona and California, along with a lot of travel. They always told my brother and I that we are in for a culture shock when we move away and go to college. I wouldn’t consider myself racist, I think it would be better to describe myself as uneducated when it comes to diversity and simply inexperienced. I never had any friends of
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“…we are erasing the experience of mixed race people who don’t have white ancestry. But further, it’s simply another way in which we center white experiences in our culture. We don’t note the experiences of mixed race people without white ancestry because their combo leaves white folks out of the picture; a mix without whiteness is not considered worthy of comment. As a culture we continue to fail at conversations involving issues that have nothing to do with white people,” (Lin). I found this interesting because I have never thought about the situation this way. We have learned throughout this course that our education system distorts the true history of various topics on purpose and inadvertently. This transfer of misinformation leads to racism for everyone in the United States is required to complete a specified amount of years in the education system. This requirement of being in school forces children to pick up on information being thrown at them, such as the false stories of Christopher Columbus, Rosa Parks, presidents owning slaves, and countless other cases of misinformation. A large majority of students have “learned” about all of these cases and many more, accepting it as true. After all, why would our education system lie to us? Now that I know the truth, I can correct anyone who tells a story incorrectly. Although inadvertent, the repeated …show more content…
As a female within the criminal justice major, I have learned a lot about how females have been stereotyped just because they are a female and thought to be weaker than the males, both physically and mentally. Although that may be true in some circumstances, it shouldn’t be a reason to discriminate at all. This is common for all jobs. Females generally make less than males do if they are both equally qualified. Sadly, there isn’t much that can be done about this other than speaking up. Ageism is also very prominent in workplaces. The owners of the restaurant that I work at were opening a new restaurant up last fall. They were looking to hire staff that could work daytime shifts on weekdays. Once school starts up, who would be available to work these daytime shifts? Either stay at home parents whose kids are at school, retired people, or younger adults not in school. A majority of the applicants were older adults, and the owners weren’t very happy about that; they wanted young girls to work there, but that’s not realistic. I am not 100% sure, but I think they didn’t call some people for an interview simply because of their age. I really think this is ridiculous; I would never go anywhere to eat and be upset because of the age or gender of my server. I felt like I wasn’t in a position to speak up, because they are my superiors. As I said before too, I’m not 100% sure on what they
“…we are erasing the experience of mixed race people who don’t have white ancestry. But further, it’s simply another way in which we center white experiences in our culture. We don’t note the experiences of mixed race people without white ancestry because their combo leaves white folks out of the picture; a mix without whiteness is not considered worthy of comment. As a culture we continue to fail at conversations involving issues that have nothing to do with white people,” (Lin). I found this interesting because I have never thought about the situation this way. We have learned throughout this course that our education system distorts the true history of various topics on purpose and inadvertently. This transfer of misinformation leads to racism for everyone in the United States is required to complete a specified amount of years in the education system. This requirement of being in school forces children to pick up on information being thrown at them, such as the false stories of Christopher Columbus, Rosa Parks, presidents owning slaves, and countless other cases of misinformation. A large majority of students have “learned” about all of these cases and many more, accepting it as true. After all, why would our education system lie to us? Now that I know the truth, I can correct anyone who tells a story incorrectly. Although inadvertent, the repeated …show more content…
As a female within the criminal justice major, I have learned a lot about how females have been stereotyped just because they are a female and thought to be weaker than the males, both physically and mentally. Although that may be true in some circumstances, it shouldn’t be a reason to discriminate at all. This is common for all jobs. Females generally make less than males do if they are both equally qualified. Sadly, there isn’t much that can be done about this other than speaking up. Ageism is also very prominent in workplaces. The owners of the restaurant that I work at were opening a new restaurant up last fall. They were looking to hire staff that could work daytime shifts on weekdays. Once school starts up, who would be available to work these daytime shifts? Either stay at home parents whose kids are at school, retired people, or younger adults not in school. A majority of the applicants were older adults, and the owners weren’t very happy about that; they wanted young girls to work there, but that’s not realistic. I am not 100% sure, but I think they didn’t call some people for an interview simply because of their age. I really think this is ridiculous; I would never go anywhere to eat and be upset because of the age or gender of my server. I felt like I wasn’t in a position to speak up, because they are my superiors. As I said before too, I’m not 100% sure on what they