Courageous Conversations
Simonetta
Humanities
Coach Clark
May 10, 2016
Everyone has different knowledge and thoughts on race. I have gotten the chance to hear what three people think about race. The people that I interviewed did not seem challenged to have courageous conversations about the topic. They were responding to the questions my partner and I were asking openly and honestly. Although I was very fortunate to have had interviewed people that weren’t shy, there might be people that are very insecure or shy about expressing their thoughts on the topic. This might be because they feel as if their thoughts are wrong or that people will judge them and treat them differently. When people start opening up and we start engaging in a courageous conversation about race we start to have fun with it and share our opinions. During the conversations, we start to learn where we are and the thoughts of the people that shared out. When we learn this about one another we start asking questions that may change the thoughts of the person you asked the question to or your thoughts. We help each other think more and dig deeper in our thoughts.
Courageous Conversations Class
I interviewed my partner Dylan with the questions that we were going to ask our interviewees so we can practice giving an interview professionally. We talked about the questions and he answered the questions that I had asked. He was not shy while answering, he gave me his honest opinion on the matter. I was surprised that interviewing went well. At first I was a little awkward but then I loosened up and started having as much fun you can have with an interview. I was reading my questions but not in a robot type of way. I kept eye contact and was intrigued in my partner's answers to the questions. During this practice run interview with my partner I learned that if i'm confident with my questions and deliver them in a confident way then I will give off a very organized vibe to the person I am interviewing. It will be much easier for me and the person i'm interviewing. As well as being confident I learned to seem intrigued into the conversation so I can make them feel more comfortable about answering the questions that may be hard to answer. This information on how to have a professional conversation will be useful later on. I know how to act in front of my audience while interviewing them either on a hard topic or an easy topic.
Courageous Conversations Brookdale
While I was at Brookdale I had gotten the chance to interview a woman named Jean. We talked about race by asking her questions and getting to hear her insight on the topic. We talked about her family, where she grew up as a child, her thoughts on different races and ethnic people. While we were talking Jean caught me by surprise quite a few times. She had finished saying that she did not mind people with different colored skin, that they are equal but she was surprised that Oprah started acting more black since Obama became president. I was also quite surprised when she expressed her feelings on interracial relationships. She said “I rather they didn’t. I don’t understand why a beautiful white girl would go for a black man. Although there is nothing wrong with a black man. They are quite handsome, but I don’t know why he would choose her.” This had surprised me because she had said she didn’t think of people by the color of their skin but them as a person and when she said that they shouldn’t date it just confused me. I learned what her thoughts on race were. She was quite open with sharing her experiences and her vocabulary. When she said the N word and I was wondering if she has used that word in front of an African American. I felt awkward because I didn’t really know how to react when I heard her say the N word. I understood that the word was used in the time period when she grew up and that it might of not appeared to her that our generation did not think highly of the word.
Courageous Conversations CSUSM
During my visit to CSUSM I got to interview two college students, name one. Name two. At first we didn’t know what to get into but then we started talking and ask questions. We got off task which led to more questions about the topic so it was interesting. We talked about where they had grown up and their families. I was surprised by the experience that name two had with another race. She told my partner and I that she felt threatened and insulted by an elderly caucasian man on the sprinter. The sprinter had reached her destination and as she tried to get off the man was there stopping her from getting off. Since she is hispanic he thought that it was right to tell her that all the white people were supposed to get off until she could. As she tried to get off he called her a b****. I was honestly surprised when she told us this because I had thought that people would kind of treat other races better now knowing that we live in 2016, but I now know that even if some of society and some laws changed that some people have not changed their mind on race. I learned that college students are not as intimidating as I thought they would be. The two people that I got were very nice and outgoing. They didn’t seem different from the people I go to school. I felt comfortable being around them and speaking without feeling judged or awkward.
IAT Results
Before I took the test I had thought that I was neutral of all races, but when I took the test my result were a little different. My results said that I slightly prefer white people more. In my thoughts I started looking back and realizing that it was true. I started thinking back to times that I showed this and other times when my results weren’t very accurate. I don’t understand why I slightly prefer white people more because I should prefer everyone equally, not one race over another.
Institutionalized Racism
When I was interviewing the Cal State interviewee 2 who identifies as Latina. She grew up in Mexico and went to school there until she came to the US with papers for college. She came into the US for college but in this current election Donald Trump wants to build a wall so that Latinos could no longer enter the US. I disagree with Trump because he shouldn’t keep people from coming in and he shouldn’t make Mexico pay for the wall because it is his idea. Trump’s campaign also involves a lot of racial slurs and his followers believe that it is okay to do that. I learned about my interviewee and an experience she has had with an elderly caucasian man who expressed a racial slur to her. Donald Trump represents a lot of laws that have passed in history instead of moving forward. The Immigration act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants that were allowed to enter into the United States through a national origins quota. In 1994 Prop 187- doesn’t allow undocumented immigrants from obtaining public healthcare, education, and other services, this was ruled unconstitutional in 1999.
Simonetta
Humanities
Coach Clark
May 10, 2016
Everyone has different knowledge and thoughts on race. I have gotten the chance to hear what three people think about race. The people that I interviewed did not seem challenged to have courageous conversations about the topic. They were responding to the questions my partner and I were asking openly and honestly. Although I was very fortunate to have had interviewed people that weren’t shy, there might be people that are very insecure or shy about expressing their thoughts on the topic. This might be because they feel as if their thoughts are wrong or that people will judge them and treat them differently. When people start opening up and we start engaging in a courageous conversation about race we start to have fun with it and share our opinions. During the conversations, we start to learn where we are and the thoughts of the people that shared out. When we learn this about one another we start asking questions that may change the thoughts of the person you asked the question to or your thoughts. We help each other think more and dig deeper in our thoughts.
Courageous Conversations Class
I interviewed my partner Dylan with the questions that we were going to ask our interviewees so we can practice giving an interview professionally. We talked about the questions and he answered the questions that I had asked. He was not shy while answering, he gave me his honest opinion on the matter. I was surprised that interviewing went well. At first I was a little awkward but then I loosened up and started having as much fun you can have with an interview. I was reading my questions but not in a robot type of way. I kept eye contact and was intrigued in my partner's answers to the questions. During this practice run interview with my partner I learned that if i'm confident with my questions and deliver them in a confident way then I will give off a very organized vibe to the person I am interviewing. It will be much easier for me and the person i'm interviewing. As well as being confident I learned to seem intrigued into the conversation so I can make them feel more comfortable about answering the questions that may be hard to answer. This information on how to have a professional conversation will be useful later on. I know how to act in front of my audience while interviewing them either on a hard topic or an easy topic.
Courageous Conversations Brookdale
While I was at Brookdale I had gotten the chance to interview a woman named Jean. We talked about race by asking her questions and getting to hear her insight on the topic. We talked about her family, where she grew up as a child, her thoughts on different races and ethnic people. While we were talking Jean caught me by surprise quite a few times. She had finished saying that she did not mind people with different colored skin, that they are equal but she was surprised that Oprah started acting more black since Obama became president. I was also quite surprised when she expressed her feelings on interracial relationships. She said “I rather they didn’t. I don’t understand why a beautiful white girl would go for a black man. Although there is nothing wrong with a black man. They are quite handsome, but I don’t know why he would choose her.” This had surprised me because she had said she didn’t think of people by the color of their skin but them as a person and when she said that they shouldn’t date it just confused me. I learned what her thoughts on race were. She was quite open with sharing her experiences and her vocabulary. When she said the N word and I was wondering if she has used that word in front of an African American. I felt awkward because I didn’t really know how to react when I heard her say the N word. I understood that the word was used in the time period when she grew up and that it might of not appeared to her that our generation did not think highly of the word.
Courageous Conversations CSUSM
During my visit to CSUSM I got to interview two college students, name one. Name two. At first we didn’t know what to get into but then we started talking and ask questions. We got off task which led to more questions about the topic so it was interesting. We talked about where they had grown up and their families. I was surprised by the experience that name two had with another race. She told my partner and I that she felt threatened and insulted by an elderly caucasian man on the sprinter. The sprinter had reached her destination and as she tried to get off the man was there stopping her from getting off. Since she is hispanic he thought that it was right to tell her that all the white people were supposed to get off until she could. As she tried to get off he called her a b****. I was honestly surprised when she told us this because I had thought that people would kind of treat other races better now knowing that we live in 2016, but I now know that even if some of society and some laws changed that some people have not changed their mind on race. I learned that college students are not as intimidating as I thought they would be. The two people that I got were very nice and outgoing. They didn’t seem different from the people I go to school. I felt comfortable being around them and speaking without feeling judged or awkward.
IAT Results
Before I took the test I had thought that I was neutral of all races, but when I took the test my result were a little different. My results said that I slightly prefer white people more. In my thoughts I started looking back and realizing that it was true. I started thinking back to times that I showed this and other times when my results weren’t very accurate. I don’t understand why I slightly prefer white people more because I should prefer everyone equally, not one race over another.
Institutionalized Racism
When I was interviewing the Cal State interviewee 2 who identifies as Latina. She grew up in Mexico and went to school there until she came to the US with papers for college. She came into the US for college but in this current election Donald Trump wants to build a wall so that Latinos could no longer enter the US. I disagree with Trump because he shouldn’t keep people from coming in and he shouldn’t make Mexico pay for the wall because it is his idea. Trump’s campaign also involves a lot of racial slurs and his followers believe that it is okay to do that. I learned about my interviewee and an experience she has had with an elderly caucasian man who expressed a racial slur to her. Donald Trump represents a lot of laws that have passed in history instead of moving forward. The Immigration act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants that were allowed to enter into the United States through a national origins quota. In 1994 Prop 187- doesn’t allow undocumented immigrants from obtaining public healthcare, education, and other services, this was ruled unconstitutional in 1999.