Blog Week 4 Angie Woods: Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

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Blog Week 4: Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Student Name: Angie Woods

EDUC-6164-8, Perspective Diversity & Equity

Instructor: Laura Tuthill

Walden University

Blog Week 4: Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Student Name: Angie Woods

Describe at least one example of a microaggression which I detected this week or remember from another time. Well I can remember from another time I was at work at a Hospice and I had asked a question to a lady which was black. It was a question that I had asked related to hospice work. But the lady was going over the job applications out loudly about some people in who had a things related in having a day care center. So I asked the question how a person with a day care center can be helpful to a hospice when the hospice is looking for a C N a nurse.  The lady looked up at me with a very rude attitude and said, “So that I don’t have to be babysitting no one and looked at me. As if she was talking right toward me her statement made me feel not at ease because it was right toward me. Even though I know she does not baby sit me but it’s all how she made the statement then looked me in my face as if she is making it toward main what context did the microaggression happen? The context happens at a job area in the mist of other co-workers at a Hospice.  In around a whole crowd of people. I felt like that the statement was out of her way of being a professional. I felt like she should have kept her thought to herself.

What did I think and feel when I observed the microaggression or when I found myself as the target of a microaggression? When I found myself as the target of being mircroaggression I felt very uncomfortable because if someone is looking for a job if I may or may not need that person I would have never talked out to the public work area out loud about a person application because that kind of information is not for the public to know the company information.

In what ways did my observation experiences this week affect my perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people. My observation experience this week has effects in discrimination to my understanding because the way how she addresses the answer back to me. By me asking a question how can a Day Care help Hospice then she made a foolish statement.

Blog Assignment Week 3 Angie Woods: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

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Blog Assignment Week 3: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

Student Name: Angie Woods

EDUC-6164-8, Perspective Diversity & Equity

Instructor: Laura Tuthill

Walden University

Blog Assignment Week 3: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

Student Name: Angie Woods

In meeting with some colleagues this week the topic of discussion was cultural diversity and each person had a different way in how they defined cultural diversity. I had a conversation with three wonderful people about cultural diversity. Each person defined cultural diversity: Person 1. He is a teacher he has been teaching over three years. He believes that culture is the way people have been raised to live by their family. He believes that diversity is a group based on differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, social class and disability. Person 2:  She is in a Head Start Program who has been a teacher for two years.  She believes that cultural diversity is the inclusion of diverse people in a group or organization that embrace cultural diversity in the workplace or school area with different types of culture of people. Person 3:  She is a Head Start Center Director for over three years. She believe that cultural diversity is a gender roles that shaped our culture’s ideals for masculine and feminine behavior in ways that have been modified but not radically changed since the early years of time.

What was interesting to me is that each person had their way of how they viewed cultural diversity. When I talked to person 1 once he told me he believes that diversity is a group based on differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, social class and disability. Now I had to ask him how disability went with cultural diversity. He told me because some disabilities are passed out among the community to be involved in helping different cultures seek help for people with disabilities. That is seen in the same light as equality for other minority communities where social structures such as prejudice, segregation, inaccessibility and cultural/religious beliefs are the problems.

In reflecting on my conversations with the three people about culture and diversity I have learned that still people defines cultural diversity totally different. I also learned that people have their own why in how they understand cultural meaning to the best of their own knowledge. I see I need to learn more about cultural diversity but I find that this was very interesting doing because so far what I have learn that everyone has their own social identity in what they believe in .