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“The Business of Being Born”

Did the film change your perspective on the process of childbirth in the United States?

Yes, I had never really thought about it before watching this film but now I believe that I would want a home birth with a midwife rather than one in a hospital.

If so, why?

-The statistics about how a home birth is actually safer -The insane c-section statistics -All of the unnecessary procedures and meds -The pitocin “pit” med that induces labor that then requires the epidural which then requires more labor inducing meds which leads to more epidural and so on and so forth until a c-section becomes “necessary” for the “sake of the baby” which isn’t always true -Most women seem to get it administered -Valuable connection between vaginal birth and pain of contractions and the biological chemicals that link new mothers to their newborns - Insane rise in c-sections -Insurance/ cheaper to get a midwife than to give birth in a hospital -Celebrities in the early 2000s were frequently talking about c-sections and other form of intervention for their childbirth and so the rise in those procedures are attributed to that by some -C-sections aren’t seen as serious of surgeries now as they used to be due to the fact that they are so common of an occurrence in modern American culture.

#home birth

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From the Philippines to America

I interviewed Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Ph.D, Dean and professor, School of Architecture and Planning, and I found her story to be incredibly interesting. Her story began in the mountain city of Baguio, Philippines, which was designed by the American architect and planner Daniel Burnham. She was twenty-five when she left the Philippines for the United States on a student visa. This was the second student visa she had applied for, though her first attempt was denied. She suspects this is due to the Americans believing she didn’t actually want the student visa to pursue her Ph.D at Michigan State but rather to marry a citizen to stay permanently in the U.S. This is despite the fact that when she first moved to the U.S. her every intention was to return to the Philippines with her degree and make as much of a difference as she could. Dr. Akers told me that she had to leave some of her family in the Philippines, her mother, who passed away in 2002, her father, who is still alive today at ninety-three and who she expects to live until one-hundred, or even one-hundred-and three, and her younger brother. Her parents had encouraged her to get an American education because an American education is a real opportunity in the Philippines. She also told me that along with her family in the Philippines, she has a brother here in the U.S. who picked her up at the Chicago Airport and drove her to Michigan State. When I asked Dr. Akers what her immigration experience was like, she said that it was actually very positive and that due to the fact that the Philippines were under American Colonization. She didn't have too hard of a time adjusting to American culture because she already spoke English fluently because it was what they spoke in her home with her family and also out in the streets. She already understood many American sayings like “it’s raining cats and dogs.” She also said that many other immigrants from the Philippines were nurses who were seeking to fill the nursing gap in the United States, which is why Dr. Aker believed the quota for immigrants filled so quickly that year. Another thing I was curious about was whether or not Michigan State accepted Dr. Akers’ credits from her bachelor’s and master's that she had earned in the Philippines She said they did not, that she had to retake many basic courses that she had already taken. With all of this she found many of the people that she surrounded herself with to be supportive of her status as an immigrant. In fact she ended up joining a group at a welcome event for immigrant students that she stayed with for about three years. Eventually a Catholic priest in one of her classes helped her realize that that level of control was to much, as they controlled how she dressed, she wasn’t allowed to date, and she had to receive special permission to live with a Filipino roommate. When she decided to quit it took her about six months to get all the way out. For two weeks she had to move in with a friend off campus because they would come to her apartment twice a day to try and win her back. Some of her push factors were that for many years of her life she had to live under martial law in the Philippines. She was forced to vote for the current president, he would find out if you didn’t and you would be arrested. So naturally American democracy was a pull for her, along with the program she wanted to pursue being in the U.S.. Some of her bridges were already being familiar with the English language and sayings. One of her barriers was having to tone down her expressiveness which is a large part of Filipino culture and she said that she found finding the right time to stop talking was an adjustment. The final thing I wanted to know was if Dr. Akers knew what she knows now would she still choose to live in the U.S. and she did not hesitate to say yes. She certainly wouldn’t mind going to visit other countries, but America is where she wants to live.

#immigration #pull #push

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The Life of My Hershey Bar

Life of my Hershey bar:

1: What are the ingredients? -Milk Chocolate - Cane Sugar - Milk - Chocolate - Cocoa Butter - Milk Fat - Lecithin - Natural Flavor

2: Where do the ingredients come from?

The following companies are Hershey’s cocoa suppliers according to their website:

-Albrecht and Dill Trading Company -Atlantic Cocoa Company - Barry Callebaut - Blommer Chocolate Company - Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate - Ecuador Ecuakao Processing SA - FCStone - General Cocoa Company - Guan Chong Cocoa - Indcresa Productos del Cacao - JB Cocoa -LIFE BV - Olam International - Plot - Tafi SA and United Cocoa Processor, Inc

The following countries are some of the countries that the above companies get their cocoa from:

-Brazil - Cameroon - Côte d’Ivoire - Columbia - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Ghana - Indonesia - Nigeria - Papua New Guinea - Peru

3: How are the ingredients produced?

The production includes: -Harvesting the cocoa -Opening the pods -Fermenting the seeds -Drying the seeds -Manufacturing the chocolate

4: What are the working conditions of the people who produce the cocoa?

They are underpaid, despite their attempts to limit child labor the company has failed.

5: How do the producers get the cocoa to the market?

It is transported in bags and specially ventilated containers, protected from moisture, kept in a cool, dry place, and the bags are especially secured so that no cargo is lost.

6: How are the prices set?

The main ingredient of chocolate is cocoa, so the price of labor is a part of it. Child labor has been a large part of cocoa farming, with 2 million children working. There has been many campaigns to stop the child labor, and with the end of child labor comes fewer workers producing the product, whcih means less cocoa overall and higher prices

7: Which international corporations dominate the chocolate trade?

Cargill Incorporated,

Olam International Limited

Puratos Group

Touton SA

Natra SA

Ferrero Group

8: Who regulates the trade?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA for short) is in charge of chocolate regulation in the United States.

9: How is the chocolate marketed?

During the pandemic they did a bunch of advertising for smores and the idea of getting outside for a change and enjoying the summer. They started advertisements for smores four weeks earlier than they normally would. What better chocolate to use than a Hershey bar?

10: Where did you buy your chocolate bar?

If I’m being honest, I haven’t bought a chocolate bar in a long time, but I suppose if I were to buy one it would probably be from CVS or Safeway.

11: How much profit does a store owner make on one chocolate bar?

The average store owner makes 55-75% profit from the cost of the chocolate bar. So if a chocolate bar costs a dollar then the store makes $0.55-$0.75.

12: Are there hidden costs that are not included in the price you paid?

Things such as child labor, deforestation, low wages and poverty are some of the many hidden costs of producing chocolate. On Hershey’s website they have made it easy to find their pages about what they are doing to counteract these costs. They have worked to lower child labor and reduce deforestation. However, in 2019 Nestle, Hershey, and Mars were all askedif their products were produced withou child labor and none of them were able to definitively say no. As of 2020 Hershey has reached 100% tracebility of their chocolate sources when Nstle is at 46%

https://www.barringtonfreight.co.uk/blog/how-is-cocoa-shipped/

https://www.sfu.ca/geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp8/prod/prod.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/war-cocoa-hershey-co-accused-not-upholding-sustainability-efforts-west-n1250798

https://www.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/ingredients/about-our-ingredients/ingredient-glossary.html

https://www.thehersheycompany.com/en_us/home/sustainability/sustainability-focus-areas/cocoa.html

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hershey-promotes-sustainability-sourcing-cocoa

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#chocolate #hershey #cocoa

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Chapter 10 Fieldwork

Bourdieu:

https://www.epi.org/publication/early-education-gaps-by-social-class-and-race-start-u-s-children-out-on-unequal-footing-a-summary-of-the-major-findings-in-inequalities-at-the-starting-gate/ The article I chose to demonstrate Pierre Bourdieu’s was about education gaps and primarily how they begin with early education. Children who attend pre-kindergarten are more likely to succeed in continuing their education. Similar to what Bourdieu was saying about the damage that can come from setting young children on education tracks, the article talks about the importance of setting a child up for success from a young age. Some things that can help with this are home nurse visits, quality child care, and pre-kindergarten. These things are far easier for families with higher incomes to attain than those with lower incomes. It also says that many of the educational gaps that seem to be primarily due to race or ethnicity are actually better explained by the differences between their socioeconomic status and that of the white families. They say that the best way to bridge the educational gap is to face the reality of Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction and search for a way to bring the children’s families out of poverty.

Weber:

https://www.ukessays.com/essays/sociology/the-impact-of-social-class-on-life-chances-in-the-uk.php

\ One of Weber’s theories that I found interesting was his theory of life chances, which are, as described similarly in both the textbook and in the article I read, essentially the opportunities that can improve one’s life and help them achieve their life goals. This is a very appealing concept. Who doesn’t want to improve their lives? Unfortunately, as enticing as it is, it can be very difficult for some to find any life chances to be made. Some of the things that determine one’s life chances that the article described are class, education, childhood poverty, and more. As the article said, education broadens life choices. However it can take more than just attending any school to broaden your life choices, the quality of the school and level of education are pivotal too. The quality of education is often based off of where one lives, which is frequently determined by socioeconomic status. In addition to all of this, your class greatly impacts how one is treated if they are accused of a crime. The article states that the working class are treated and judged far more harshly than the upper class. All of this agrees with Weber’s idea that life chances are greatly and unfairly impacted by class, among other things.

Marx:

https://medium.com/scale-magazine/the-rise-of-the-proletariat-in-the-21st-century-85076408e966

The article I chose to connect to Marx began by defining proletariat as it was in the textbook: one who only owns their own labor. It also says that despite the fact that we live in a wealthy country that holds capitalism tight, it is not perfect. The proletariat, although no longer by that name, still exist as the lowest class in our society and as the ones struggling to make ends meet. They say that even though we don’t often use Marx’s terminology anymore (bourgeoisie, proletariat, etc) these groups can still be found in our culture today. Much of this article discusses how the “fringe” society members are coming together. Marx predicted that it would be difficult for the marginalized to unite in a way that could really make a difference because many of the proletariat were working so hard just to make ends meet that they had no time to truly connect with those in their class. Today that may be different due to the fact that social media makes making connections with people like oneself a million times easier.

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Kinship Charts

I made two kinship charts for this assignment, one for the patrilineal side of the family and one for the matrilineal.

First, here are the symbol keyes I made for this assignment:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZg-4Xg9lXjPLYOJ3ZlwrOCQloy5QP7t/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EMLpC-6xUSh84_aTVJE7Q-ydzYw_URCe/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EcqDEfkSNmxkVjggQcyFLXQSOrmabSCN/view?usp=sharing

Patrilineal Kinship Chart:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EUg0-4uPuymPFYpx4zQpJxWmh0RMHNWb/view?usp=sharing

The top row shows my father’s mother’s father and his siblings (AKA my great-grandfather and my great-great-aunts and uncles.) I know little about them other than their names, which were Rae, Joseph, Jenny, Alexander, Frances, Lillian, and Rose, and my great-grandfather Luigi Cassotta married my great-grandmother Mary Rose Sanseviere. The next tier shows my father’s mother Marie and her siblings (AKA my grandaunts and granduncles) Uncle John and his wife Aunt Sadie, Leonora (commonly known in my family as “Aunt Lee”). Also on this tier are my father’s father Hans Rudolph Voos and his siblings (also my grandaunt and granduncles)Aunt Anita and her husband Uncle Henry, and Uncle Albert. The next row down shows my father, his siblings, and their spouses. Organized from oldest to youngest are Uncle Gerard and his first wife Beth who he divorced, his second wife Emily who he had his daughter Victoria (my parallel cousin) with and who passed away from cancer, and his third and current wife Elizabeth. Next is my Aunt Marianne, her husband Gary, and their children (my cross cousins) Garad, his wife Kirsten, and there young children Anya, Zane, and Calla, Then there is Sean, his wife Brittney, and their children Harper and Emory, and finally my cousin Paige. Next is my Uncle Greg and his wife Virginia (AKA Ginny), and their children, in descending order, Jonathan, Kayleigh, and Christopher. Next is my Uncle Kurt who first married my Aunt Jennifer and had Ian (who recently married Kinsley), Elliot, Isabella, and Emily (all of which are parallel cousins) before they divorced and Uncle Kurt married Molly who is now pregnant with their first child. After Uncle Kurt comes Uncle Keith, his wife, my Aunt Luanne, and their four children, Billy (who was adopted,) Zach (also adopted and Billy’s biological brother,) Bridget (adopted as well,) and Marissa (their only biological child) who is married to Job (all of whom are my parallel cousins). Next is my father, Paul, and his wife (my mother) Lauren, my three sisters, and me. My oldest sister is Amelia who is engaged to be married to Elijah. My second oldest sister is Halle who lives with her boyfriend Garry. Then there’s me, Dina. After me is my youngest sister Ella. After my family is my father’s youngest sibling, Leeanne (AKA LeeLee)

Matrilineal Kinship Chart:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZQuCEtLtzFhU-7Ua9ghgObO2FH-GRkv/view?usp=sharing

The matrilineal kinship chart is a little less complicated than the first chart. The top tier only holds my mother’s mother’s mother’s mother, more commonly known as “Grammy Bolmer,” or Louise Bolmer, and my mother’s mother’s mother’s father, Howard Bolmer. Next row down are my mother’s mother’s mother, Violet Sutton, or “Grammy Sutton” to her grandchildren, and her husband Franklin “ Polly” Sutton. Next to them are my mother’s father’s parents, Arnold “Bill” Wynings, and Jean Wynings. Next are my Mother’s parents, Arnold “Bill” Wynings, and Nancy Friess. They had four children before my grandfather passed away, they were: Karen Huizing, married to Bob Huizing, and had two children, Olivia, married to Christian, and Zachary (both of whom are parallel cousins). Next is Mark, who his nieces and nephews all call “Marky.” Next is my mother Lauren, who married my father Paul, and had four children, Amelia (who is engaged), Halle (who cohabitates with her boyfriend), Dina (EGO), and Ella. My mother has one more sibling, My Aunt Jill Matthews, who married my Uncle Norman Matthews, and had two sons, Norman and Logan (also parallel cousins). My mother’s mother remarried to William Friess after my mother’s father died.

#kinship chart #matrilineal #patrilineal

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Chapter Seven Fieldwork

For this assignment I watched over fourty-five minutes of PBS kids live TV. I found only the first two commercials which were clips of Halloween episodes from different shows. Afternnot finding many commercials on live television I searched Youtube for other commercials, which I found there. Those links are attatched below. When I searched "How many ads are on TV per hour" I found that there are roughly eleven minutes worth of advertisements per hour of television which was how I decided the number of commercials to analyze for this project.

1: -Pbs kids halloween shows -not gendered -just showed pieces of halloween themed episodes

2:PBS kids -dancing raisins -science experiments -deep voice -included boys and girls

3:Stanford Children’s Health TV Commercials Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital -didn’t feel like it was for boys only -Little girl in tutu -mom’s voice -finding frogs -running around the woods -female voice over to active college-aged woman -little girl running around

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_yn0MAgrvWVY&d=DwMFaQ&c=0CCt47_3RbNABITTvFzZbA&r=Wu6WZc531IyVIrOk6dps2nkrHqvWjuBKaDitaiP6N74&m=SgXntLrZ20FpnqCYNAQh1jPG_n14KstBaZQ4WGljhUE&s=pqF7N7C9lDB9tkQU89CSQ8meEL0q5EPrq326hIvJv6M&e=

(Above link leads to the commercial I viewed)

4:Cutie Cars -Definitely feels aimed toward girls -toy cars with big eyes and eyelashes that hang around a donut shop or bakery and are decorated food things like sprinkles or chocolate chips. -drivers are tiny pieces of food such as bananas or cupcakes -sparkles around letters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Fx2d4V188

5:Purse Pets -an animal shaped purse with eyes -short commercial -pink -big eyes with big eyelashes -seems aimed toward girls

6: Tummy Stuffers -stuffed animal that you can shove stuff down it’s mouth -seem aimed toward boys -mostly rooms that are blue and yellow or have sports stuff -advertising about the mess in kids rooms -a girl has a pink-centric room and a unicorn -another girl had a pink sequin pillow and a pink and purple backround -male voice

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_PWUCFXI5CII&d=DwMFaQ&c=0CCt47_3RbNABITTvFzZbA&r=Wu6WZc531IyVIrOk6dps2nkrHqvWjuBKaDitaiP6N74&m=jcs2DXYMMGZxCHAunnO_rI56Ud3aOmyMt1xvt3deCYQ&s=EBePBDw6aPcYm0lzrx5DfbhTE5GOSwWux8EPWptb6qQ&e=

(Above link leads to the commercial I viewed)

7: Bright Time Buddies -animal shaped night-light -female voice -doesn’t seem gendered to me -mostly blue and green lighting -unicorn and ladybug (which had a female name) were both held by girls

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_qC81-2DR3YMb0&d=DwMFaQ&c=0CCt47_3RbNABITTvFzZbA&r=Wu6WZc531IyVIrOk6dps2nkrHqvWjuBKaDitaiP6N74&m=JYjMrJr6jH1S0VOTH9Fl5ojZyZmxwj209Nv4GkacYfk&s=OyGDWfAntzmsmybmEzBttxgl9fkZinN4z3jFzXIQRnU&e=

(Above link leads to the commercial I viewed)

8: Wandarama -a “magic wand” that can cause tinsel shapes to fly -the logo is “wandarama” in pink sparkly letters which made me initially think it was aimed at girls but the ad had boys using it too and other was mainly blue backrounds

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_QovfN-5Fk1sxw&d=DwMFaQ&c=0CCt47_3RbNABITTvFzZbA&r=Wu6WZc531IyVIrOk6dps2nkrHqvWjuBKaDitaiP6N74&m=LAvTNDA6YtyxHFl6XrlWOMuiqOiXHUDb5FTGTXdyBNE&s=Of0z27dOM-OrFSqp7MeBvBM3p0IKPqFIWh5ym0DNBd4&e=

(Above link leads to the commercial I viewed)

9: Glow Crazy -a light that makes other things glow -has both boys and girls -logo is neon green and seems more boy aimed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0QppG-EBA0

(Above link leadsto the commercial I viewed)

10: Live Butterfly Garden -basically a live butterfly garden -both boys and girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BQt2FMHU3M

(Above link leads to the commercial I viewed)

#children's commercials #gendered commercials

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Marie Antionette Voos (My grandmother on my father’s side):

On my Dad’s side of the family was strongly tied to both German and Italian ancestry. I interviewed my grandmother about it, along with reading her book, and I learned many things about my Italian connections.

Above is my Great-Grandpa on his honeymoon

Above is my Great-Grandmother with her brother and sister

First, she considers herself to be entirely Italian. Her mother was born in Hoboken, NJ to Italian parents and her father was born in Italy then immigrated to the U.S. at a young age. Her grandfather moved from Italy to the U.S. so that he could send money back to his family before they came and joined him.

Neither of her parents received a full education, her mother left after sixth grade and her father left after eighth. In the beginning of his education he frequently skipped school because he didn’t understand the English language. When the school discovered the reasoning for his struggles in school he was appointed a language aide to help him. After that he never skipped school and was dedicated to learning. Even though her parents had a limited formal education, my grandmother told me that she always believed that her parents were very smart, capable, and well aware of what was happening in the world around them. She told me that her father always had the news on the television, radio, or reading it from the paper.

My grandmother also told me that even though she was a through and through Italian, she has never felt ostracized for it. She told me that her only recollection of something like that happening happened to her father. He was working with several other Italian men, all who spoke Italian, and, in my grandmother’s words, he “looked Jewish” so the other men started to talk about him in Italian, thinking he couldn’t understand. He could, however, speak Italian fluently and understood every word that they said. He spoke to them in Italian and told them that he was Italian and they shouldn’t talk about people like that anyway. After that they all became friends.

My grandmother makes the most wonderful Italian food. She taught her children and their children how to make delicious and traditional food. These include zeppoles, ravioli, manicotti, meatballs, and more. These foods, both in the making and the eating, have always left me feeling connected to my to my Italian heritage.

Above is a family tree my Grandmother made

Nancy Louise Freiss (Grandmother on my mother’s side):

When asked, my grandmother told me that she was German. She told me that never really thinks about it and that she has never felt like a part of an ethnic community.

Her great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Germany separately in the early 1900′s and met while working for a wealthy family in Westchester, NY, as a chauffeur and as a maid.

Her great-grandfather rode in Six Day Bicycle races which were popular in Germany at the time. This was the only connection between her family and Germany my grandmother could recall. He was also “dominant” and took the role of being the head of his household seriously. Everybody in the family had a job. Her great-grandmother raised the family, and as soon as the children were capable of working a job they would go to work and all their earnings other transportation fees went to their parents.

Her great-grandparents were likely unable to speak English when they first arrived and that their children were probably bilingual and ended up using their lessons at school to teach English at home.

Her grandmother became pregnant at 16 and decided to marry a non-Catholic man. Her mother did not want her daughter marry a non-Catholic, so she told her that she was excommunicated from the Catholic church. Even though this wasn’t true, my great-great grandmother believed it.

A rather blurry part of this side of the family’s history is that about five generations ago there was part Lenni Lenape Native American. My great-Grandmother connected strongly to that part of the family history mostly because she strongly took after them and never really felt like she belonged to her German heritage. Interestingly enough, her twin sister never seemed to have that problem, most-likely because she was very fair-skinned and had blond hair and blue eyes.

My great-grandmother was a part of the Dutch Reform church from a young age. She went there for Kindergarten, and they went to Sunday school classes thinking that they were academic and stayed ever since. My grandmother started her life at the Dutch Reform church. She converted to the Baptist church during high school, mainly because that was one of the few churches in her community, and it was a place where she felt connected. Once she reached nursing school she became curious about the Catholic church and looked into one that she was able to attend regularly due to her new hours and she converted to Catholicism which she still takes part in today.

Lauren Jean Voos (my mother):

Above is a picture of my mom’s family.

She talks about how her great-grandmother was born in 1903. The Suttons, her grandfather’s family, were either English or Scottish, but they weren’t close to my mom’s family so they aren’t sure.

Her father’s side is German which adds the amount of German on her mom’s side. They lived in the country part of NJ. Her family never really connected to her ethnic history and focused mainly on their American community.

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Raisinghttps://youtu.be/XMR855zb28kRacialization:

https://youtu.be/i1GjU01AMjE

The video above is “The History of Race and Racialization” (Oxford Academic/ Oxford University Press, by Carlos A. Hoyt, Jr) In this video it is explained how racialization came to be. Dr. Hoyt explains that race primarily comes from two things: firstly, the general cognitive confusion that is quite common in our brains, and secondly, the not so positive way we follow this confusion. Our brains are wired to split things into sections, groupings, and categories. One example of this is the experiment that he showed the viewers of the video. An experiment where there are three small containers, two white, and one brown. When asked, most people assume that the two with the most similarities were the two white ones, when in reality, the white sugar was much closer to the brown sugar than the salt. We take markers and give them a meaning that simply isn’t there.

Nativism:

https://youtu.be/XMR855zb28k

This video is called “Immigration and the Rise of Nativism” (NBC News Learn) explains how nativism came to be in our country and delves into its various roots. Nativism comes from fear, and intolerance. Intolerance of things such as other religions, such as Catholicism, and Judaism, entering the country, and fear that immigrants would bring crime and poverty, and that they would steal their jobs as well. The video also shows that as irrational as these ideas are, they still gained a lot of power in the U.S..

Microaggressions:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFMNnoV6-nrPKBmSSZn_2C9TnuCUQk6v/view?usp=sharing

Both of these images I found on Instagram while looking under the hashtag #microaggressions. The first is a young woman holding a sign that has the words “racial microaggressions” crossed out in red, and looking uncomfortable. Surrounding her are a number of word bubbles, all containing demeaning statements, such as “Where are you from? No, where are you really really from?” and “What are you?”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MI-wrzgoS6R1RvYryYpWRax_J2hdSoAl/view?usp=sharing

The next image contains the heads of several minorities, all giving responses to what we can assume are several comments like in the picture above, and all more respectful than I think I would be in the circumstance.

Hypodescent:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/one-drop-rule-persists/

Hypodescent, also known as the “one-drop rule” has been a part of the U.S. for the majority of our country’s history. It has been an official law since 1662, and has been upheld in court as recently as 1985, when a woman from Louisiana was not allowed to identify as “white” on her passport because one of her great-great-great-great grandmother was black. This article, “The ‘One-Drop Rule’ Persists” by Steve Bradt from the Harvard Gazette, states that despite the fact that many believe that the election of Barack Obama to be a sign of progress in this field, James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and African and African-American studies at Harvard states that “Hypodescent against blacks remains a relatively powerful force within American society.”

In addition, the article also mentions that according do a study that he conducted, with help from others, that unconsciously, people considered children who are 1/4 asian and 3/4 white were more white than children who are 1/4 black and 3/4 white.

Institutional Racism:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-019-0513-6

This link leads to a diagram within an article which shows how best to counteract the biased medical institutions and improve the health and safety of prenatal infants and try to reduce ethic and racial inequalities of patients.

Racial Ideology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU3VE-NaBBw

This video is about Black Panther and how it relates to racial ideology. I found this on Dr. Kira Banks YouTube Channel “Raising Equity.” She opened the video by explaining the definition of racial ideology, which she defined as how one believes black people should interact with society. She then shared how that broad definition can be broken down into four types of ideology:

Assimilation ideology: this one is the belief that black people should “get along” with mainstream society.

Humanist ideology: everybody is human and we should ignore race.

Oppressed minority ideology: minorities and oppressed groups should interact and get along with each other.

Nationalist ideology: minorities should build and live in their own institutions.

Along with all of these she says that no person is one or the other, rather a mix. She also identifies the two main characters of the movie, T’Challa and Killmonger, both as having primarily nationalist ideologies, though both having a different connection to the term. T’Challa’s relationship with the term is all about protecting his country and helping it flourish, while Killmonger is unable to achieve his desire for a society like Wakanda’s due to his struggles with white supremacy. At the end of the film, Dr. Banks says that she feels compelled to choose between two ideologies, one of sharing Wakanda’s success with the World, or keeping and protecting the success from others.

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dinav01 · 4 years ago

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Gender and Language in the Classroom

1: Do you notice any diffeences based on gender?

I actually found that in my Anthropology class, the class best suited for this project, there seem to be a lot more women than men present, though I'm not completely sure of the exact numbers. I counted roughly 38 female volunteers and 14 male ones.

2: How long did they speak?

I've found that women tend to speak for an average of 49.2 seconds per person and 28.6 seconds for men.

3: Does gender affect other tendencies in the way people present themselves through language?

The women seemed more likely to talk quietly than men did, though both men and women spoke with a common passion and the ways that they told their stories were in a fluid and casual way.

#gender

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dinav01 · 4 years ago

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Overview

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I don't need a man to be holding me too tight

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I don't need a man to be holding me too tight

I'm a motherfucking woman, baby, that's right

I'm just having fun with my ladies here tonight

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Don't buy me a drink, I make my money