Today I chose to do the do the IAT tests, and listen to the 9/11 stories. As I was taking the test, i felt the questions were very blunt (I'm sure that's the point) and they were uncomfortable to answer. You were forced to choose black people or white people (there was a choice for either, but that isn't the point of the study) then answer the questions and categorize different words and pictures. The things the test required us to do were about things that aren't usually talked about in an every day conversation because it is uncomfortable to do so. In the 9/11 stories it shared the point-of-view from Americans, Arabs, and other ethnicities. Americans were hurting and scared more devastating things would take place, Arabs were made fun of for being the ones who terrorized the united states, even though the specific people had nothing to do with it. Its really sad to hear their stories and about their feelings.
Everything we did today was based around discrimination of some sort. The things talked about in the websites we were on were all about the way people are treated or viewed as.
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