en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2397761 Comments by DillainMAdams http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743479 Predjudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling of someone formed before you really get to know a person. Picking seats in a classroom should not be something we have a hard time to do. Even though we all did not come from the same back grounds we all worked hard to get to where we are today, we are all at Penn State for a college education, and we are all here to learn it does not matter if you are Muslim, Jewish, Black, Hispanic, White, or any other race or religion. We all need to learn to not care what other people think and learn to except everyone for who they are and not preformed opinions of someone just because of what they look like. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:06:38 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743479 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743458 We need to be more understanding and more open to people and not discriminate them because of race, religion, disability, hair color, or any other multitude of things and learn to live together. In class Sam told us about the way people sit when there with people that there more comfortable with, and that they sit at that magical, "perfect" distance and you get that connection. People need to learn to become aware of our subconscience prejudice and learn to get rid of it and take advantage of what everyone brings to the table and not just go on what you determine by a quick glance of what they look like. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:06:32 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743458 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743420 People need to broaden there horizons and learn how to accept that we are all humans, no that we are all monkeys and that we do not need to act differently around people of a different race. doing this i believe just show the ignorance of people, and them not understanding how things work and they need to understand that people are all striving for the same thing and it does not matter what color or religion or anything. We as people need to learn to not care about what seat we sit in or who we sit by. People need to except other people as who they are and not what they think they are and not to judge people by how they look. Like the old adage goes "Don't judge a book by its cover." Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:06:16 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743420 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743377 This a very intrigueing question. How concsience am I of my seat in class. I am not, I really do not care where I sit. I really just try and find an empty seat around people who I know or just anywhere. My seat choice is not a very tough one, I usually just try and find one where I can see everything and be close enough to observe Sam while he lectures. The seat thing is really not an issue. I believe that people put to much much pressure on what people do around people of a different race some people do things subconsciencely like Sam said. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:05:57 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/how-conscious-are-you-of-your-seat-in-class-before-and-after-todays-lecture-119-blog/#IDComment130743377 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/17/how-much-can-a-person-use-the-ignorance-card-119-blog/#IDComment128995747 People who do not use the resources they are given are using the ignorant card as a crutch. I believe people use it as a way to feel better about them for not doing anything. People do not use the resources that they are given to make themselves informed with the issues. People definitely need to become more informed and educated people and start using the resources given to them. We live in the era of technology and people are readily able to consume information using the internet, newspapers, or the news. People need to make an effort to get rid of the excuse and start using all of their potential and get informed. Sam is teaching us how to embrace ourselves and learn to open our minds and not use the excuse of the "Ignorance Card". Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:22:18 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/17/how-much-can-a-person-use-the-ignorance-card-119-blog/#IDComment128995747 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/17/how-much-can-a-person-use-the-ignorance-card-119-blog/#IDComment128995712 People using the ignorant card are not always ignorant. People who do not use the resources they are given are using the ignorant card as a crutch. Great question, people go through life not knowing many things in life. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, information, or education; the state of being ignorant. Most people do not try to find out information sticking to the mantra of "Ignorance is bliss." People who try and make themselves not ignorant are people like us who pursue a higher education to get ourselves ahead in life. When people become educated they try and fix and fight things but not all do. “The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.” However, the problem is that so many people are unaware of the fact that these things are going on in nations around the world. There are many issues in the world that we all do know about, yet most of us live our lives without doing anything toward working to change it. People using the ignorant card are not always ignorant. Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:22:05 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/17/how-much-can-a-person-use-the-ignorance-card-119-blog/#IDComment128995712 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/17/how-much-can-a-person-use-the-ignorance-card-119-blog/#IDComment128995575 Great question, people go through life not knowing many things in life. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, information, or education; the state of being ignorant. Most people do not try to find out information sticking to the mantra of "Ignorance is bliss." People who try and make themselves not ignorant are people like us who pursue a higher education to get ourselves ahead in life. When people become educated they try and fix and fight things but not all do. “The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.” However, the problem is that so many people are unaware of the fact that these things are going on in nations around the world. There are many issues in the world that we all do know about, yet most of us live our lives without doing anything toward working to change it. Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:21:45 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/17/how-much-can-a-person-use-the-ignorance-card-119-blog/#IDComment128995575 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125807099 The Civil War was fought because of political disagreements and turmoil. I proudly own a confederate flag. The south fought to preserve their livelihood, after the civil war was over the south was so poor, the south was the picture of poverty. The government put in military rulers as governors in the south until a new government could be put into place. The South’s infrastructure was destroyed by the war and the south was left in ruins. The confederate flag is a symbol of all the strong men who fought for their political rights from an unjust government who was unwilling to listen to them and to try and save their economy. The civil war was not fought because of slavery it was fought because the north and south were unwilling to compromise, and political disagreement. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:51:26 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125807099 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125807074 There were plenty of free white men to do the sort of labor slaves performed. In fact, the main demand for abolition of slavery came not from those who found it morally wrong but from white working-class men who did not want slaves as rivals for their jobs. But the only reason slavery was so much more in the south was because the South’s income was based mainly on agriculture. People in the south were not all slave owners and people in the south who had slaves were most likely to own only one slave not 300 or 50 or some other outrageous number, and not all people who owned slaves were torturous to them, people considered them to be part of the family. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:51:15 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125807074 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125807009 The history of African American slavery in the United States can be divided into two periods: the first coincided with the colonial years, about 1650 to 1790; the second lasted from American independence through the Civil War, 1790 to 1865. Prior to independence, slavery existed in all the American colonies and therefore was not an issue of sectional debate. With the arrival of independence, however, the new Northern states--those of New England along with New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey--came to see slavery as contradictory to the ideals of the Revolution and instituted programs of gradual emancipation. By 1820 there were only about 3,000 slaves in the North, almost all of them working on large farms in New Jersey. Slavery could be abolished more easily in the North because there were far fewer slaves in those states, and they were not a vital part of Northern economies. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:50:48 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125807009 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125806841 Well I’m from the south and I personally think the Confederate Flag isn’t a bad thing. It is a symbol of southern culture, southern ancestry. People died to preserve their livelihood. The South gets a bad rep because of the whole slave issue. People have to understand that people from the North had slaves as well. People from the North didn’t just wake up one day and say hey we don’t want slavery we should abolish it. New England was the center of the slave trade in the colonies, supplying captive Africans to the South and the Caribbean island. Black slaves were a valuable shipping commodity that soon proved useful at home, both in large-scale agriculture and in ship-building. The Mid-Atlantic colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) had been under Dutch rule before the British conquered them in 1664. African slavery in the middle colonies had been actively encouraged by the Dutch authorities, and this was continued by the British. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:49:35 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/27/what-does-the-confederate-flag-mean-to-you-119-blog/#IDComment125806841 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment123975286 People classify other people, we classify ourselves, and we try to give off the illusion that we belong in certain classifications to seem better than we actually are. I am classified as a Southern Baptist, southerner, Caucasian, male, who is smart, eccentric, polite, and politically informed. I get these classifications because of the area where I lived, how I was raised, the way I act, and what people observe of me. Do we need these classifications? I do not know and I don’t think anyone can fully understand if we do or not. We need to open up our mind to fully comprehend the many things that have to do with this subject of classifications. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:32:28 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment123975286 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment123975275 Classifications come from many different aspects of our lives. People put themselves in classifications to try and give off the illusion that they are better than some people. In my town there is a gated community with security, pools, a golf course, and very decadent houses. This community has its own car decals to get into their neighborhood. People who live there are classified as rich and in the upper echelon of the community, but in fact some of the people who live in this gated community are actually not rich and they work menial jobs just get to by, and they only live there to off the effect that they can take care of themselves and that are wealthy. It’s just like some people living in a small shabby little house and owning a high priced luxury car so that people think that they live well and are financially secure. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:32:23 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment123975275 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment123975184 Great question Danny, I classify myself as a Male because I was born one and that is who I am. I have no control over this classification of myself. People classify me as smart, ethical, polite, eccentric, etc. these classifications are given to me by people because of the way I act. I believe that the way you act can be used to classify you because people see the way you act and put you into certain categories because of the things you say and do. People classify you because of what type of music you listen to and what types of TV shows you watch. People classify people by the Job, skin color, ethnicity, what vehicle you drive. I believe people also tend to classify people more depending on where you live. I was born and raised in Florida, and where I live is classified as the Bible Belt, People classify other people by what religion you are and how religious you are. People classify other people by the places you live in. Where I’m from people classify themselves as rednecks or city folk or outdoorsy depending on whom you ask. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:31:54 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment123975184 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122828591 Sam caught me off guard by the word “Cracker”, and it made me think about nicknames and other derogatory terms people give to certain types of people. Why do people call other people names like “Beaner”, “Cracker”, and others? I don’t understand why people use race or ethnicity to make up nicknames. As soon as we meet a new person we as human beings start to classifying, characterizing, and judging. We use these impressions to figure out how we will act around this person. That is why people act differently around there friends, than they do around their teachers, their classmates, or their coworkers. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:17:59 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122828591 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122828573 The statistics that we learn in class are shocking to say the least, and if people in class are shocked about these statistics then I don’t even know how many people would actually not be shocked by what Sam is telling us. I don’t understand why more people aren’t getting taught the subjects that we are learning in class. What really surprised me is how many people don’t know about their lineage and the twins who were white and black were crazy! Just think if you were a White couple and you had a Black baby of like the picture of the girl who looked White but had a Black father. It is crazy to think of what kind of recessive genes we carry that we could pass on to make them unique and different then we are. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:17:53 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122828573 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122828496 I agree that the exercise was very interesting and thought provoking. I thought it was a good representation of what really happens in the world. We classify people by what their skin and hair look like. I am glad that I was not chosen to be one of the people to go up there and classify the people. People need to open there minds and hearts to everyone. I think that Sam is teaching us how to open our minds and to consider how stupid it is to be stereotyping and to classifying people just because of race. I believe that this class is going to help us all not to focus on race and ethnicity and focus on that we are all part of the human species and that we need to not be so conscience of the race thing. I believe that if we did this exercise anywhere else it would have had a very bad after effect. Why do people have so much animosity towards the race and ethnicity issue? I think Sam does a great job hammering home the point that it is stupid to think that as a Caucasian that we are better than Blacks, Asians, Indians, Native Americans, Latinos/as or vice versa. This class makes me think about how many other people don’t get offered this class and that they stay in the dark on these important subjects. Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:17:24 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122828496 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-%e2%80%9ca%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-intense-debate/#IDComment121367213 SOC119 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:12:09 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-%e2%80%9ca%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-intense-debate/#IDComment121367213