PRACTICING AWARENESS OF MICROAGGRESSIONS

• Describe at least one example of a micro aggression which you detected this week or remember from another time. In which context did the micro aggression happen? What did you think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself as the target of a microaggression?

It is funny that this assignment came this week when I did something that is consider as being microaggression toward someone. This week I had said something out the way to my male co-worker. Every day he comes to work and say something about what a woman suppose to do. Mind you he live with a women that he has no intentions of marrying, but always saying what she has to do to keep him happy.  In the same breathe he speaks about many other women that he is seeing or messing around with. So I said without thinking you are what us real women consider as a dog in a joking matter but really in the back of my head i was thinking this. This is wrong because I displayed that I was biases also.

• In what ways did your observation experiences this week affect your perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people.

I see that even being unintentional microaggression toward someone it can be done without thought. Many people do not think before speaking, what comes in comes right out without going through a thinking process. So I see many people not thinking  how they effect people with what they say or do.

PERSPECTIVES ON DIVERSITY AND CULTURE

I asked three co-worker about their definition of culture and diversity. The response were basically on the same page each  felt that the meaning of culture  is all about  traditional. traditionals music, social norms of family, family traditions, values and morals that goes with different cultures. One co-worker that has a dual citizenship with United States and Canada and in her opinion diversity is now to her described as being a positive thing. Diversity is a way of describing working together for one common goal. In Montreal, Canada which is the largest city province of Quebec is all multiculture.

• The aspects of culture and diversity  that I have learn from this course is that I never knew how impotant learning about others culture would have an impact on my teacher career.

MY FAMILY CULTURE

      A description of the three items you would choose

1.      Three family pictures one from the day I got married which included my mom, dad, sibling and their spouses and their children. The second on with me, my husband and my new born son. A large picture of my son.

2.      My wedding ring

3.      My son favorite toy

      How would you explain to others what each of these items means to you

My pictures hold the vision memories for me and my heart holds the true meanings to me. My wedding ring to represent the responsibilities I have as a wife and mother.  The reason I would take my son favorite toy to give him comfort with something that is familiar to me.

      Your feelings if, upon arrival, you were told that you could only keep one personal item and have to give up the other  two items you brought with you

I would probably be angry, upset, and mad. But after a while I would look at it as material things and thank the Lord that we are alive and hold the pictures, and wedding ring as a memory that I keep in heart, but I would keep my son favorite toy because he do not know about holding memories.

      Any insights you gained about yourself, your family culture, diversity, and/or cultural differences in general as a result of this exercise.

This exercise just made me thinks that we have no idea why people have to relocate, or want to live in different countries. I know I would be scared to be in the mist of people that might not accept me or do not understand me.