en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2404343 Comments by TheMasterBaiter257 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/19/why-does-society-dislike-immigrants-and-why-are-they-portrayed-badly-119-blog/#IDComment145225262 That is great question that I was wondering myself. In my opinion I think that there are a bunch of major reasons why society dislikes illegal immigrants. The first is the fact that most people feel that illegal immigrants take away jobs that could be designated for an american citizen. In my personal opinion, I feel that although these illegal immigrants do take a lot of the jobs that some white people could get, I feel that the majority of the jobs that these illegal immigrants have are jobs that the majority of americans would not want to participate in. Another reason why I hate when people use this as an excuse is because before these immigrants were here, if they really wanted the job they could have taken advantage of it, but they didn’t. So do not try to use the illegal immigrants as scapegoats because you do not have a job. The second reason that I feel that most americans do not like illegal immigrants is because they do not have to pay taxes. Whenever the debate comes up whether or not illegal immigrants should be allowed in the U S it never fails that I hear someone say, “Oh and besides the fact that all of these illegal immigrants have taken our jobs, they also don’t have to pay a cent to be living in the United States.” Although that is true, I still don’t see that as being too big of an issue. The reason why these illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes is because the process of becoming a U S citizen is so difficult and that is why they have to sneak over the borders in order to enter the U S. This is another reason that sometimes makes me a bit angry when people use it. In my opinion, the last reason why people dislike illegal immigrants so much is because they commit crimes at a high rate. I am a crime, law, and justice major and we just spoke about the crime rate by illegal immigrants and it is very high. An even higher number is the amount of illegal immigrants in jail as we speak. The number just keeps growing and growing which is a bad thing. In my opinion this last reason is the only one that is viable for the deportation of illegal immigrants. I think that if an illegal immigrant is sent to jail, they should immediately be exported out of the country and back to the country in which they are citizens with. That is my opinion on the topic. In regards to your last question as to why people view illegals poorly, I think all three of the examples above is why. Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:57:32 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/19/why-does-society-dislike-immigrants-and-why-are-they-portrayed-badly-119-blog/#IDComment145225262 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/12/do-you-think-you-would-actively-try-to-not-benefit-from-nepotism-if-the-situation-presented-itself-119-blog/#IDComment143162791 Absolutely, 100 percent not! If I was given an advantage or a chance to further myself in a company because of my gained contracts I would take advantage of it 10 out of 10 times. My reasoning for this is because technically the reason for nepotism is because you had to do something in order to make the contact who is giving you the better opportunity. And I know that most people would not agree with this out in the open but secretly to themselves they would agree, it is human nature to want to help out yourself over other people. I am not saying that I don’t EVER want to help out people other than myself, what I am saying is if I have the opportunity to help advance my life and help me out in a positive manner, I am going to do it. I have to agree with the fact that there are certain circumstances when nepotism does give people an unfair advantage. One big example of this is having your parents finding the job or opportunity for you. I feel that this is an extremely unfair side of nepotism because you had to do no work in order to find the contacts. All you had to do was ask mommy and daddy if they knew anybody who could get you a job for the summer. I feel that the only way that nepotism is acceptable is when you yourself finds the opportunity by networking or any other way similar to networking. Although I did say that nepotism from your parents is one of the types that I do not feel is justified, I think that, as always, there are certain circumstances when it is ok. For instance, if there is a job that your parents find you and there are no other candidates for the job then I do not see anything wrong with taking advantage of that situation. Another way that nepotism could be justified when done by your parents is if it is in their own business. In that case obviously you are going to be a high candidate in that situation. Because it is the business that your parents own they are obviously not going to turn you down. Other then those exceptions, I do not see any other situation which is justified for nepotism. To wrap up my final thoughts, I feel that if I have made my own contacts and through those contacts I am given a job, I feel that it is completely justified to take advantage of your nepotism. If it is your parents’ contacts which have given you this job then I feel that you should not take advantage. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:04:51 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/12/do-you-think-you-would-actively-try-to-not-benefit-from-nepotism-if-the-situation-presented-itself-119-blog/#IDComment143162791 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/07/do-you-agree-with-foreign-aids-use-of-pictures-of-children-119-blog/#IDComment141128788 I agree with Ernso’s opinion that the use of impoverished children is a terrible marketing plaw. I feel that you should not have to show the children who are in terrible conditions in order to get people to send money for them. In my opinion and the opinion of most of the kids in the class feel that it is not better to send money to these organizations but rather show them how to perform certain acts which will help them in the long term rather then in the immediate future. That is what places like Haiti need, help for the long term not for right now. If people are able to go to Haiti and give them assistance in building a business and sustaining that business for years to come, that will help out these people so much more then a 100 dollar bill will. As well as having volunteers going to places of impoverish such as Haiti and teaching them how to build and sustain a business it is also important for people to go there and help rebuild the society. When I say helping to rebuild the society, I mean helping to incorporate new devices into their system as well as rebuilding many of the landmarks that were there before the earthquake. By doing this we are going to need a lot of volunteers from all over. So far we have had a great turn out from people from all over the world who have come to volunteer their time to help these poor people rebuild their society, but there needs to be more of a commitment in order to get us to the status that Ernso Jean Louis wants Haiti to be at. It may take a little bit of time but I know that we will be able to get to that status. It starts one person at a time, if everyone can help I know that there we will be able to help Haiti. These projects that we are doing will be a great start for what Haiti needs. Now back to the real question, whether or not I feel that they should show these poor kids int he commercials. In my opinion I do not think they should. They are exploiting these poor kids and showing a terrible side of Haiti. They should be showing the better side of Haiti, the side of Haiti that shows the hope that they will once again become the prosperous country that they once were way back when. Haiti will become one of the better and most wanted to visit tourist attractions once again, all it takes is a little bit of hope and little bit of help. Sat, 9 Apr 2011 00:53:03 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/07/do-you-agree-with-foreign-aids-use-of-pictures-of-children-119-blog/#IDComment141128788 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/29/would-you-be-willing-to-learn-a-new-language-for-a-job-119-blog/#IDComment139151507 Would I learn a new language to get a job in these times of hard economic times is a very good question. In my person opinion I would, I am already minoring in Spanish because I feel that in the future the only way that people will get jobs is if they are able to speak more then one language. As the years pass, more and more and more people are learning a second, third, or even a forth language so people who only know one language, monolinguals, are not going to have as many opportunities to get a good, well paying job. That is one of the many reasons why I would definitely myself learn a second language, and advise anyone who asks me to learn another language. Although that is one of the main reasons why I would learn a new language there are also many more reasons. One important one would be in the social aspect of life. There is a growing population of people in the United States of America that speak a language other than English and by only knowing English, that can have a very big impact while in a social setting. I personally am a functional bilingual. I can’t speak Spanish fluently, but if I am in a situation where I need Spanish in order to get around I would be fine. An example of a time when I had to do this was when I visited my cousins in Miami. When I was walking around Miami one day and entered a store, there was a poor old woman who did not speak English at all and no one could understand her. Thankfully I was able to translate everything she was saying to them and she was able to buy her pastry. With regards to work, a big reason why employers would want to have bilingual workers is because of all of the new territories that they could cover by having someone who speaks the same language as an unexplored territory. This is especially big in business and working opportunities such as that. Now to answer the second question whether or not most Americans would learn a new language in order to get a job. I personally do not think most Americans would do it. I am not saying that no Americans would but the vast majority of Americans in my opinion would not. Americans feel that we shouldn’t be the ones to learn new languages it should be other people’s job to learn ours, and that is going to be our downfall. Take for example a place like China, on the rise. They not only know Mandarin, they are also required to know English. That is my opinion on this topic. Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:09:31 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/29/would-you-be-willing-to-learn-a-new-language-for-a-job-119-blog/#IDComment139151507 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/24/would-you-date-someone-like-me-119-blog/#IDComment137768275 That is a great question that my group actual asked while we were in our break out session. In my opinion there are so many reasons why white guys really do not date black girls very often. The first and I think is the most important reason is because whiter guys are scared of black and hispanic girls. Both black and hispanic girls both are very strong and basically don’t take shit from anyone. They are strong willed and even a little bit sassy you could say. I think that white guys are a bit intimidated by black and hispanic girls. In my case, I am a hispanic male who has dated black and hispanic girls and I know first hand that they are different then white girls. I think as I said before they are stronger willed then white girls. An example of this could be when I was dating a black girl I remember noticing things like they where as a white girl might shy away from confrontation, black and hispanic girls will take the confrontation and attack it. I do not want to stereotype all black and hispanic girls into this mold because I know that a lot of a person’s actions is related to what their personality is. If a white girl is raised to be strong willed she won’t avoid confrontations. The same goes for both black and hispanic girls. If they are raised to avoid confrontation and if their personality is to keep to themselves they won’t be confrontational. The second reason I feel that white guys don’t date black and brown girls is because of their parents. I know that there are a lot of times when a white guy might like a black or brown girl a lot and because his parents don’t accept interracial couples will not allow them to date. I know this is a very sore subject that many people feel is wrong, but I know a lot of people who shy away from dating people of another race because of either their parents or grandparents. The last reason I think that white guys don’t date black or brown girls is because they just don’t have feelings towards people of a different race. I’m not saying they are racists, its just that they don’t have romantic feelings towards people of another race. Just as there are some girls whether they be white, brown, or black that I don’t have feelings for they just don’t have feelings for girls of a different race. As I said before there is nothing wrong with that because every has a different view of what they find attractive and what they don’t. That is why I think white guys don’t date black or brwon girls. Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:22:33 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/24/would-you-date-someone-like-me-119-blog/#IDComment137768275 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/18/what-do-you-think-of-the-diversity-at-penn-state-119-blog/#IDComment135950926 I think that compared to most of the schools in the nation, Penn State has a medium amount of diversity. I think that there are a lot of white people who attend Penn State but in my opinion that is normal. Whenever you look at the majority of schools in the nation you are most likely going to see that most of the students who attend are white, and rightly so because white is the majority in the United States. But in saying that I do still believe that Penn State should try harder to make the campus more diverse. I know that in recent years they have been proactively trying to make the campus more diverse by accepting more people of different races then ever before. I also think that the way our society is proactively trying to help minorities succeed, is also a large factor in the reason that Penn State has been successful. I do not think that we will ever all be completely equal, but the steps that Penn State has been taking to advance minorities is a nice sight to see. As I mentioned above although I feel that Penn State has worked hard to become more diverse, they can still do more. I feel as though if they accept even more minorities into their campus and become more well known as a diverse campus, they will be doing minorities and the society around us better. A more diverse school would provide a lot of advantages not only to the campus but also to the students. It will allow them to learn more about different cultures then they had before. Also it will allow them to expand their horizons and let them become better human beings overall. Now to answer your second question, did the diversity of the school effect my choice to attend Penn State. Well, in my opinion it did not effect my decision at all. When I first visited Penn State last year I knew that I wanted to go here. The campus was beautiful, the school had a high academic rating, the parties were said to be amazing and are, and of course the sports. So no diversity did not effect my decision to attend Penn State at all. To be honest I did not even think about the diversity of schools when I was making my college decision. The first time I really thought about race in that way was when I attended Sam’s class for the first time. Sam has definitely opened up a lot of doors for me in concerning race. I no longer view the world in the same way as I did before attending this class. Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:20:16 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/18/what-do-you-think-of-the-diversity-at-penn-state-119-blog/#IDComment135950926 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/09/what-would-make-this-guy-less-white/#IDComment134286040 I agree that this guy might be the quintessential white guy. While I was watching this video, the whole time I was thinking to myself, “Wow this guy is really white.” Now as I think about the reason why I was saying to this myself, the reasons became very obvious. In my opinion, as a Hispanic male, I can not see any black or brown person ever wearing something that looked like that to hold their gun. This might be a stereotype that I have in my head about black and brown people, but I personally feel that the gun harness that was supposed to be held around a penis, hidden and concealed, is not a piece of equipment that either black or brown people would wear. I think that it is too nerdy a device for black people or brown people. The next reason and in my opinion the most visible showing of this man’s whiteness was the way he talked and the way he dressed. He looked like your ordinary stereotypical white man. He had the perfectly straight shirt, tucked into his perfectly ironed pants, with a nice belt on and, in my opinion, most likely, loafers. The other point that I mentioned above is his voice. He had a very kind and welcoming voice that kind of made him sound like he was a car sales man. Whenever I think of the quintessential white male, this guy is exactly the picture that I have in my head. The next action that makes this man the “whitest man alive” is the fact that he actually made a video on youtube to show people how to use it. This was a very white thing to do because it was a little nerdy and bit weird. While taping the video the “whitest man alive” was acting a bit awkward especially right before he was about to show how to put on a place the holster. He made sure to tell the viewer that he had his gym shorts on underneath his pants as to not make anyone uncomfortable. A black or brown person would not have cared about wearing gym shorts underneath their pants. Their boxers would have been more than enough and they would not have cared if the viewer saw them in their boxers. The final thing that I noticed made this man the “whitest person alive” was that fact how he always made sure everything was tucked in and looked nice and felt comfortable. He made sure to tell the viewer to always tuck your shirt into both your pants and the holster in order to have the best results. In my opinion, this man is the quintessential white person and one of the “whitest people I have ever met.” Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:16:23 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/09/what-would-make-this-guy-less-white/#IDComment134286040 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/23/why-are-white-people-so-reluctant-to-admit-to-having-discriminations-119-blog/#IDComment130477011 I think that this is a great question and I agree that white people are much more reluctant to admit it when they have a discrimination toward a certain group. I believe this is so because the way white people have treated: blacks, browns, and asians from all over, I think that most white people feel that it is not right for them to have a discrimination against a certain group because of the terrible way they treated the groups mentioned above. Most white people that I know feel very bad about how their ancestors treated people of color and they feel that we live in an era of no discrimination and because of this, if they have a discrimination towards a certain group they feel bad letting it free out in the open. Whereas black and brown people are more expressive of their feelings and they are able to say how they truly feel. I think there are always exceptions to the rule but for the most part most white people, or at least the white people who I associate myself with, are all very reluctant to talk about any of the discriminations that they may have against another race or culture. People of color are a completely different story. I am not trying to put down white people at all when I say this, but I think that both brown and black people are more open to talk about the topic of race. We re much more comfortable because we have never had a large period of discrimination by our entire race against another race unlike white people. I also feel that white and black people are not “afraid” of white people. I think that without a doubt white people are afraid of both black and brown people because of the discrimination done on them by their ancestors. What I mean by being afraid of them is that when ever a white person talks to a black person who they do not know they always tend to have a bit of difficulty deciding what to call them, black, african american, or any other term. I think that a bug part of why white people do this is because they do not want to offend the black people of America. On the other hand, black and brown people are not afraid to call white people whatever they want. As I write this I begin to think that the term “afraid” is not the proper term. I believe it is more political correctness. Because of how society is today we feel that we all must be politically correct to try not to offend anyone. But as Sam has said, the day we can stop thinking about political correctness is going to be a greta day in American history. And I agree completely. Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:35:42 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/23/why-are-white-people-so-reluctant-to-admit-to-having-discriminations-119-blog/#IDComment130477011 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/16/do-arrests-of-different-races-occur-more-due-to-racism-or-more-police-in-urban-areas-119-blog/#IDComment128439558 That is a great question to ask and I have been thinking about this question since Sam talked about it in class on Tuesday. In my opinion, being a Crime, Law, and Justice major student, I feel that it is due to a little bit of both of these reasons. I feel that there is a lot of discrimination in the police force. I can almost guarantee this to be true. But along with the racism of the police I feel that the fact that we put so many cops in urban areas it is inevitable that they will arrest many black people. The urban areas have a high amount of black people in them and because of this, racist police forces put multiple number of police officers in this area. As we saw in class on Tuesday, the majority of the people in the US who use drugs are white and the majority of the white people in the US live in suburban areas where there is not much crime. Because of this, these white people are able to smoke weed or use cocaine without being scared of the consequences such as imprisonment. As well as the users, the dealers are also free of the nervousness of having to deal with cops. Normally, these transactions in suburban areas are done in the driveway of the receiver of the illegal drugs and cops do not normally enter suburban developments. In the case of the black dealers in urban areas, these drug deals are done through back alley transactions which are both shady and have a high probability of getting caught, compared to the suburban areas. This is , as mentioned above, because there are many more police officers observing the urban areas because in these areas there is high congestion and high crime. As a lot of statistics have shown, the urban areas of the US are highly populated with both African Americans and Hispanics. This is why when Sam showed us the statistics of which groups of people have higher amounts of their group in jails, both African American and Hispanics were the highest. They might not have had the highest “number” of people, but they had a much higher “percent of the overall population” in jails. I believe that the main reason for this is discrimination, but the fact that there are a lot of police officers stationed in urban areas to patrol the streets making sure crime is monitored, that is also a factor. I do not think the problem of discrimination of the races will every be solved, or at least not while i’m alive. I think that the first step to stop discrimination is as Sam said, to stop placing us in our own little boxes and to began viewing all of us as humans. Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:09:06 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/16/do-arrests-of-different-races-occur-more-due-to-racism-or-more-police-in-urban-areas-119-blog/#IDComment128439558 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/08/how-have-the-choices-youve-made-and-determinism-affected-your-life-119-blog/#IDComment127000123 I believe that determinism is the main reason why I am attending Penn State right now. Growing up the most important thing for a person in my family was how well we did in school. No matter how terrible I could have been outside the classroom: steal, kill, do drugs; as long as I did well in school my parents were happy. My parents would always be on my case trying to get me to study more, stay ahead on my homework, and always be a good student. Fortunately both for my parents and myself, I was always a good student, studied enough to get A’s, which for me wasn’t a lot, and was involved in my school. My parents wanted me to do well so that I would get into a great college and make something of my life. Thankfully they were always pushing me to succeed and, I did. Last semester I took Crim 012 which was also known as Soc 012. In that class we looked at the reasons and theories as to why people became criminals. When Sam asked whether it was a person’s free-will or determinant as to why they either succeeded or failed, from the beginning I wrote it was a little bit of both. Crim 012 taught us that where a person is from and their financial situation is a key determinant as to what they will make out of their life. This is because if they live in a home where the household makes $20,000 dollars a year, normally it is a single parent household and chances are there are multiple children in the family. This means that in order for the single parent to make that much money, they need to work multiple jobs. If there is a single parent with 4 children, normally the parent will not be around because of work and that means there is no one there to watch over the kids or make sure they do their school work and make sure they stay out of trouble. Since, in most cases, there is no father for the children to look up to they rely on their friends and since they have to money there are many things that they don’t have that they want because it is too expensive which leads to crime. Once the child is exposed to crime once, a stereotype is placed on them as a juvenile who is a criminal. This leads to more crime, dropping out of school, and more and more time spent in juvenile delinquency centers or even jail. Once in jail they do not make as much money because people do not want to hire a criminal and then they end up becoming the statistic of drop out who never amounted to anything. This is why I feel that because my parents were there for me and because we had a decent amount of money, I was able to go to Penn State and hopefully one day law school. Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:47:12 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/08/how-have-the-choices-youve-made-and-determinism-affected-your-life-119-blog/#IDComment127000123 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/03/inequality-in-home-ownership-119-blog/#IDComment125991780 I think that there are so many contributing factors when deciding homeownership between the races. Although Sam put those statistics on the board, I don’t feel they properly represent the races, especially the minority races, as a whole. What I mean by this is that although i’m sure the statistics are correct, I think that there are more people in both the black and hispanic races that are living in poorer areas then whites. Last semester I took Soc 012 and we talked all about the different statistics with crime concerning people of these two races. In my opinion I feel that the reason these statistics are so low is because both the black and hispanic races have a large amount of their people in low poverty areas. One of the main theories of crime is social disorganization. This is the theory that because a child lives with a mother and 4 brothers and sisters and the mother is working 3 jobs in order to support the family, there is no one there to watch the kids after school. This means that the only person these kids relies on or looks up to is their friends who are in the same position as they are. Because these kids are relying on each other with no one telling them the difference between right and wrong they are more prone to perform deviant acts. This social disorganization is more prone to kids who live in low poverty highly congested areas such as city ghettos. And the people who are more prone to live in these areas are Hispanics who are new to America and low class blacks. I am a Hispanic male who lives a very comfortable life in the suburbs of New Jersey . There are many black and hispanic families who live around me and who live just as comfortably as we do. As per the question which was what is the main contributing factor for inequality in homeownership? I think that it is the fact that these people who live in the high concentrated areas with low income and high crime have many people from these race groups who lower the average income. Another contributing factor is the fact that a lot of the people in prison belong to both the hispanic and black races. Once these people get out of jail they are less likely to find high paying quality jobs which lowers the national average by a lot. Also these people do under the table paying which might not come up on their financial situation. Also if they get money from crime, I do not think it shows up either. So in my opinion, the reason there is such inequality in homeownership is because of what was mentioned above. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:13:55 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/03/inequality-in-home-ownership-119-blog/#IDComment125991780 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment124395242 How do I classify myself? That’s a great question and I actually just had a conversation about this in my spanish class last week. We spoke about different classifications we have about ourselves when we are around different groups of people. For example, when we are in a group that is filled with people of the same race as ourselves, in my case Cuban, we tend to classify ourselves as that race. But some minorities when they are in groups with white people, they tend to classify themselves as Americans. I fell like this is not how it should be. People should not be ashamed to be different then the rest of the people in the group that they are in. I personally always classify myself as Cuban. Both of parents parents immigrated here from Cuban and I am proud to be of Cuban decent. In my close, personal group of friends I have friends from a variety of places. Myself and one of our other friends are from Cuba and my roommate is from Columbia. Also in our group we have a couple people form Scotland, one from Australia, a few from England, and the rest from America. None of us are ashamed of where we are from, we all embrace the different cultures of our friends. Obviously we sometimes make fun of our friends from England and Scotland because of their accents, but they know that its all in fun. We all love the fact that we have such a diverse group of friends from all over the world. It allows to have a more worldly view on the world rather then just from the view of an American. Another way that I classify myself is as a Catholic. Religion is a very important part of my family and we feel that you should never be ashamed of your beliefs. Even if people do not agree with you, never go against your faith. My parents have also taught me that while I should never go against my belief, I should also never put someone down because of theirs. As I said above I have many friends from all over and not all of them have the same religious views as I do. Although this is true, I still respect their views and I never put them down for them. No matter if they are Jewish, Hindu, or atheist, that is their view and I respect it none the less. Classifications are a very important part of who we are. I feel that you should never allow others to pick your classification for you. It is important to be your own person and decide on your own who you want to be. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:40:59 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/how-do-you-classify-yourself-119-blog/#IDComment124395242 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/14/why-do-we-still-have-stereotypes-blog-1/#IDComment124017265 I agree with you completely. Why do we still have stereotypes? Obviously as we have seen during Sam’s power points and the clicker questions, most of the stereotypes that most of us think are true, really are not. Most of us when asked the various stereotypical questions answered the question with the stereotype. When asked, “What major in college do most people of asian decent partake in,” the majority of the class answered either engineering or sciences. I know I personally answered engineering. Although most of us chose these two answers the correct answer was business. I know in my view, this completely destroyed everything I thought I knew. Another similar question was if black males blamed themselves for their situations or the community around them. Once the question was posted on the screen, most people laughed inferring that obviously they blamed their environment around them, but in fact, almost 60 percent of them said they blamed themselves. This made me view things much differently then I had before. I have lived the first 19 years of my life thinking that stereotypes were all right. I know I have made a joke or two about how asians are brilliant at math or science or about how black people never take the blame for their actions. Now, looking back on the terrible stereotypes that I have said in the past I realize that most of them are not true. Sam has opened my eyes to what is and isn’t true in this stereotypical world. In saying that, if i had not taken this class then I would not be aware of what stereotypes are true and which stereotypes are not true. I am not naive in any sense of this life. I know that just because I have become aware of this fact, not everyone will agree with me and discover the truth. Stereotypes are a huge part of our world and I know they are not going anywhere. People are very ignorant and if they want to believe that all of the stereotypes that you hear are true then all the power to them, but I am not going to comply with the mainstream. People have made comments about my Cuban ancestry saying that we are all drug dealers and that Tony Montana is my uncle. This is another example of an ignorant comment, just as the comment that all black people LOVE chicken and waffles. I know many black people who don’t LOVE fried chicken and waffles. These are stupid comments that need to be cut out of mainstream society. The youth of our country needs to know the truth about their people. Stereotypes are the poison that kills a society. Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:58:03 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/14/why-do-we-still-have-stereotypes-blog-1/#IDComment124017265 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/14/why-do-we-still-have-stereotypes-blog-1/#IDComment122402906 I agree with you completely. Why do we still have stereotypes? Obviously as we have seen during Sam’s power points and the clicker questions, most of the stereotypes that most of us think are true, really are not. Most of us when asked the various stereotypical questions answered the question with the stereotype. When asked, “What major in college do most people of asian decent partake in,” the majority of the class answered either engineering or sciences. I know I personally answered engineering. Although most of us chose these two answers the correct answer was business. I know in my view, this completely destroyed everything I thought I knew. Another similar question was if black males blamed themselves for their situations or the community around them. Once the question was posted on the screen, most people laughed inferring that obviously they blamed their environment around them, but in fact, almost 60 percent of them said they blamed themselves. This made me view things much differently then I had before. I have lived the first 19 years of my life thinking that stereotypes were all right. I know I have made a joke or two about how asians are brilliant at math or science or about how black people never take the blame for their actions. Now, looking back on the terrible stereotypes that I have said in the past I realize that most of them are not true. Sam has opened my eyes to what is and isn’t true in this stereotypical world. In saying that, if i had not taken this class then I would not be aware of what stereotypes are true and which stereotypes are not true. I am not naive in any sense of this life. I know that just because I have become aware of this fact, not everyone will agree with me and discover the truth. Stereotypes are a huge part of our world and I know they are not going anywhere. People are very ignorant and if they want to believe that all of the stereotypes that you hear are true then all the power to them, but I am not going to comply with the mainstream. People have made comments about my Cuban ancestry saying that we are all drug dealers and that Tony Montana is my uncle. This is another example of an ignorant comment, just as the comment that all black people LOVE chicken and waffles. I know many black people who don’t LOVE fried chicken and waffles. These are stupid comments that need to be cut out of mainstream society. The youth of our country needs to know the truth about their people. Stereotypes are the poison that kills a society. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:34:09 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/14/why-do-we-still-have-stereotypes-blog-1/#IDComment122402906 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-%e2%80%9cj%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-intense-debate/#IDComment122134458 Soc 119 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:47:47 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/10/last-name-%e2%80%9cj%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-intense-debate/#IDComment122134458