ccaraway – Contemporary Racism

The Privilege Wheel

ccaraway — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:02:13 +0000

For Wednesday’s class, we spent a good amount of time discussing the myth of the social identity, and the privilege wheel exercise raised some questions for me. For one, do certain aspects of one’s social identity have more power over the other? How much importance is placed on these aspects? I personally believe that social identities are situational. To say that social identities are situational, I mean to say that when we are met with ...

Are positive stereotypes detrimental?

ccaraway — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:59:44 +0000

Recently, I watched Chelsea Lately during a episode of my insomnia. The host, Chelsea Handler, poked fun at one of the guest cohosts that she would go him to fix electronics over the Jewish cohost, because he is Asian. The prodded cohost began ranting about stereotypes, specifically how it’s not O.K. to generalize and assume that every Asian is good at computers. When he was told to relax, and that it’s positive, he responded that ...

Black Student Association Dance

ccaraway — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:20:52 +0000

This past weekend I attended the Black Student Association Dance with a friend who graduated last year. The dance was a lot of fun with great people, but I couldn’t help to notice that it was not as big as I had expected it to be. The music was great, the people were fun, and everyone appeared to be having a good time. Why did this event not receive as much attention compared to Greek ...

How can we facilitate cultural exchange on campus?

ccaraway — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:26:13 +0000

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke This quote has resonated throughout groundbreaking historical events. The majority of German citizens did not hold Hitler’s beliefs of Jewish persecution, but very few did anything to stop it. Quite recently, a toddler in China was hit by a car in a market. 18 people walked past her but did nothing to help her. The extent of her ...