Understanding White Privilege Reflection

It not only gave me a break from my stressful week, but also allowed me to bond with my floormates and other Rose residents. Most of my friends are from the Rose House. And when the SA position came to me, I thought what could be a better way for me to share my experiences as a transfer student to other students. I can perhaps advice other transfer students for the challenges they might face in their daily lives. Students find themselves lost because of one bad prelim, but

People are deprived of the individuality that forms their essence. Montag is shocked when he looks at the other firemen and finds them all “a mirror-images of himself “(Bradbury 15). They all look the same; same physical features even the same hair colour. In dystopian literature people are merely submissive followers of the system. They do not contribute in any activities except what the government determines; Henriette Wien explains in her

The British first came to India not only because of the abundance of raw materials, but also the mass potential they seen. The British East India Company, took advantage of the collapsing Mughal Empire, and broke away from their control to flourished their company. In 1857 the Sepoy army rebelled and that caused the British to come in guns blazing and take over the country. The British rule demolished India through, taxation on anything made in India, and the exportation of raw materials, which caused a plentiful amount of famine,and throughout all of this, the British kept most on India uneducated, and those they did educate, most were forced to become interpreters for the benefits it would make in taking over India and keeping the British in control. Political Paragraph British imperialism had a negative effect on the politics of India because of the corrupt justice system, and the utter lack of respect that killed masses of innocent people.

"How much of this history do you need to own?" I feel as a white person that I own all the history listed above. I may not have been the person to enforced any of this but I feel that I 'm indirectly responsible for what happened. Overtime the white man saw the Lakota as second rate compared to them and we treated them as such.

20) once they dominated a huge part of the globe. White Europeans coined these terms as a way to show that non-whites simply cannot survive in this society and that non-whites needed them in order to survive. Nothing about how the white Europeans treated the non-whites was fair. While I know that slavery and racism were the societal norms centuries, even decades ago; I truly believe that my generation is of a different mindset. While I think some of the points Mills presents are relevant, I do think some of them are a bit extreme for today’s times.

I am a white man, a business leader in my community in Johannesburg, and I am not a supporter of the apartheid. Apartheid, this policy or system of segregation and discrimination based on race, is simply not the answer to growing a strong society and government. We are fast approaching a new millenium and yet we still live in the dark ages of oppressive behavior within our society. While other countries have moved forward and made progress by desegregating, our nation has continued to fight against strengthening our society by the endorsement of apartheid.

Everyday I see so many people meeting up with their old friends and catching up, though I also see so many people struggling to maintain a friendship. If we don’t find difficulty meeting new people and getting friendly with them, why do we struggle so hard to maintain the same relation we had no problem making? Why can't I keep friends for a long time? Do I have a talent of picking the wrong ones? Am i not a good judge of character?

With completing the third semester in practicum placement, I was able to benefit from a variety of new things from the class. The placement gave me the opportunity to refresh my memory and skills in what I have learnt two semesters ago. My biggest huddle for this semester was my time management. I am a procrastinator, so completing assignments on time was and still is a challenge for me. I have not come to a full solution to this problem yet, but I did make changes in my life as to how I can manage time management.

Possibly, you have a new occupation, yet you feel more like your occupation has you. Perhaps, it 's the new obligations of a promotion that make you feel worried. Then again maybe you simply have a major project on your plate, and you 're really feeling the weight. Regardless of the reason, you 're weighed down—and your work stress is beginning to affect your own life. You don 't have lunch, you lay wakeful during the night obsessing on your schedule, and you spend half of the end of the week worrying over Monday morning.

Intercultural competence enables a person to interact both efficiently and in a way that is acceptable to others when you are working in a group whose members have diverse cultural backgrounds. The group may consist of two or more people including yourself. ‘Cultural’ may represent all manner of features, including the values and beliefs you have grown up with, your national, regional and local customs and, in particular, attitudes and practices that affect the way you work. For the tolerance of ambiguity category my results showed that I am willing to accept the lack of clarity when dealing people of different cultures and cope with it constructively. Being able to adapt the way I work with other people who may be of an unfamiliar cultural

According to McIntosh, white privilege is like “an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks” (McIntosh, p2), also McIntosh believes that she had trouble facing that for she is white as well. Male privilege contains that men have done most of important things in life or in civilization so men must be put in the center, and male hegemony exist in “all the inner sanctum of our most powerful institutions” (McIntosh, p2). One thing necessary for implement meritocracy is to have education, and the education is not designed for certain color or gender. Like McIntosh mentioned, the school gave her “no training in seeing me as

The increased pay will create a incentive for the community members to consider or enroll as a respite provider. THen to meet the demands of the consumer then will be additional trainings required on trauma and how trauma can affect behaviors and communications as well as mental health to help the consumer be able to identify and be knowledgeable about the consumers triggers and needs. The provider does not need to know all the details of the consumer 's history just a simple understanding of trauma and and how it can affect children with mental

Many people in the world don’t know about what white privilege is, and most of those who know know what it is debate on whether it exist or not. First off white privilege is a term that represents the privileges that comes along with having white skin. With many white people arguing that white privilege doesn 't exist many people of color believe it does. Most people of color believe that white people are always one level ahead of them, because of their privilege. First of all, like many people of color, I believe white privilege does exist, because I can see it all around me.

For instance, in Elite Discourse and the Reproduction of Racism, Teun A. van Dijk proposes that elites are influential in the reproduction process of racism. He argues that “white group members and white institutions are daily involved in a multitude of different discourses that express and confirm their dominance”, which plays an important role in producing racism (2 Van Dijk). Such discourses like political, corporation, and the media are what these elites are using to influence the larger population and disadvantage minority groups. The political discourse has been long standing, with the past dealing with oppression and enslaving minorities groups, but can still be talked about nowadays. Most politicians are white and tend to have similar economic class and educational backgrounds.

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