Hopes and Goals

My hope is this:

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America is going to outgrow its intolerance for difference.  It has no choice.  We have seen this progression slowly but we are getting there.  If we are steady and supportive, our America can look like all of us.

My goal:

To become even more a part of the solution, to help one person at a time, through my conversations, through my teachings and through my teachings in my career.

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to read my blog and left comments.  I thank all of you for your contributions to my understanding and my outlook.  Thank you and congratulations on the close of this quarter.

My Marvelous Moroccan Family

The country I choose is Morrocco.  The only thing I know about Morrocco is that it is in Africa, is said to be beautiful and that Mariah Carey named one of her children after the country.

1.  The first thing that I will do, obviously, is look into the language that is spoken in the region and at least learn to speak some formalities.

2.  The second thing that I plan to do is to research the culture, religion and customs of Morrocco so as to not, by accident, or through ignorance offend them or their native customs.

3.  I will research recipies to make the stay for them here in America as comfortable as possible.

4.  I will research any known Morrocon Immigrants or at least native inhabitants of somewhere close to line up a support group for their comfort and companionship

5.  I will make sure that they have access to religious necessities if needed, and that I am aware of any national celebrations, major events in the countries history that will aid me in making them feel comfortable, or aid me in conversations with this family.

I am excited to know that I wll have the opportunity to host a family from the fantastic country of Morroco.  In this country, I am African American and female.  In many ways my stay in this country has been electric, rewarding, amazing, and filled with all the wonder one can imagine.  And other times, I have felt a small and insignificant as one can imagine.  My goal in hosting this family, is to provide the comfort outside of home, and to show humanity, regardless of country or region and to show them the best of being human. 

My Experience With Unspoken Bias

I can remember never getting new books in school.  That feeling of opening a book and smelling the newness, of hearing the creases crack with unuse, and the pages being stuck together with freshness was never something that I got to partake in.  When I got my books, they were used, worn, and already had someone elses name in them already.  My name was never the first name to go in.  I can remember getting textbooks at the beginning of the year and every year hoping that my name would be the first to go in my book, and year after year it never was.

This was not a spoken microagression, in fact, it was quite the silent discrimination, yet it did not go unnoticed by me or anyone else around me.  We (Black students) knew that in the other schools with White kids got brand new books and we were shipped their old ones.

There are many movies that are coming out that are reminiscent of these times.  They seek to tell these stories and perhaps even marvel at the long way we have come to be equal in this country.  Yet sadly, when we turn on the news and see some of the travesties that befall Blacks, and Native American's as recent as a few days ago, we must sill realize that we have quite a long way to go before we recognize and heal the riff that has long separated us from understanding, cooperation, and love.

This class is great, but should be offered in school every year until graduation.  This would help sovle a lifteime of madness.

Microaggressions

The microaggression that I witnessed this weed, will actually,, the microagressions that I witnessed this week both took place at a local high school activity.  I was there at a ball game with my best friend.  Her daughter is a star on the team.  As we were watching the game, I noticed that I kept hearing, "ugh thats gay!"  It kept coming up in different pockets of the auditorium.  I would hear it over and over, "That's gay".

It was not until recently that I was told how this sentiment shouted by students was a dig, or an example of microaggressions.  The kids were insulting each other, though playfully, by calling each other gay, as it that were the ultimate insult.  Homosexuality has received a slanderous stigma and instead of the word gay being an adjective, something describe a person, or their sexual orientation at least, the word gay gets thrown around as if it is an insult.

Perhaps the kids never stopped to realize how hurtful that must be those around listening that my actually be gay.  In their laughter, another person may find pain.

The other microaggression was towards darker skinned minorities.  The kids were chanting, "team-light skinned".  This microaggression is a reflection of the attitudes placed on Blacks and some Hispanics through the years.  The other kids who were standing in rejection didn't seem to be bothered to badly, yet, this could be a case where students seem fine but cutting remarks could damage their self esteem in a large way.  My best friend simply thought kids were just being kids until we thought about the many kids are lying in graves because they failed to see the , "joke".

 Many of these jokes, are a way that adults bully each other, these microaggressions.  They turn into teenage taunts after the teen learns the behavior from adults.  Television and online media are is full of these such microaggressions.  Not to mention we are a society full of gossip blogs, magazines, and shows.  Our youth are picking up this habit with little to no effort.

Defintions week3

Definitions of culture

1.  son - culture  is living life in a way that is comfortable to you.  Diversity is  respecting what is comfortable to other people.

 

2.  daughter -culture is something we all agree on I think that America's dominant culture is the youth

every time one looks up the images are young fit and shiny. Things must be expensive new and

flashy.The dominant culture is fast,and will pass one by who can't keep up.Diversity is ones compassion and willingness to live in cultures different than their own.

 

3.  friend   Trying  to be regarded in majority that rules socio-economics in society.

These answers are different from the book because of personal feeling and life experiences from day

to day in our society. These answers impacted my own understanding by learning and adapting to diversity.and cultures, because their are so many types of cultures and diversity where every day is a learning opportunity.
  

This is why I wont choose a doll..      

Three things that I would want to take with me.


1.My cell phone, because it maintain communication, I will be able to google information when needed. My phone act as a map,and also take pictures and hold pictures as well as videos of my family.

2. A piece  of  jewelry that was given to me from my husband which is a cross that I never take off.

3. A piece of jewelry that was given to me from my children a ring that wear it that was hand made.


If I had to keep one and return the other two,I would keep my phone,because of all the amenities
and special apps like pictures and videos of my family.

This relates to my family culture because our family believe in communication and keeping
special  heirlooms and photos of family.

Research Designs....I am Ready

I am so pleased to be at the end of this course, it has consumed quite a bit of my energy and been honestly stressful.

I learned that research can be be honest and forthcoming despite the far too many instances displaying where it is not.   I think that it is important to understand that a great study must be planned and planned well.

Participants can feel intimidated, and we went through several ways to make sure that this does not happen.  I really do not feel that anything has changed in regards to how I feel about this field or the research .

The challenges that I endured this semester was that it seemed that everything that I did was wrong.  I am so excited that I have made it to the end of this journey;  it was not easy, as a matter of fact, it was not even really fun but I feel I have grown and I am prepared to do research of my own now.