https://contemporaryracism.org/69/first-week-of-class/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:10:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/69/first-week-of-class/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:02:09 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=69#comment-10 Jordan,
I also experienced the same confusion as you did when looking at my card and then my close friends and their social identities. In reality my friends do not have the same social identity as me and the card I got had a lot more in common with me. I found this frustrating because when I think of in-group and out-group I think of people I like and don’t like. But this brings me to my question: what really defines in/out-groups? Are our close friends part of our in-group, or are in-groups defined as people who have similar social identities as us and not wether we like them or not? If that is true then i guess we can be friends with out-groups. Maybe this is because we get to know our friends past their social identity and actually see them as people with personalities and individual identities. Where as social identities do not allow us to see that and only make assumptions.

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