Well honestly, I found that clip a little bit confusing at times. I wasn't always a hundred percent on what she was talking about. There were still a few things I picked up and found really interesting though. The first thing I noticed was when she was talking about the boxes you check for your race when you have to fill out forms. She was mentioning the box listed as other and how a lot of bi-racial people might have to check that box if say they are African American mixed with Asian and maybe African American is listed but Asian is not so the have to check the other box. She then goes on to say that by checking the other box it can cause sort of an identity crisis in the way of trying to figure out "who am I" according to these boxes. Another thing that she was talking about when it comes to bi-racial people is that in a lot of countries people just have to accept the identity that the society assigns to you. If you are multi-racial, you don't get to just choose your own identity but you have to go with what society tells you that you are. I found that extremely interesting. It's hard for me living in America and having all the freedoms that we do have to imagine living in a place like that where you can't even claim your own identity. The last thing that really stuck out to me was when she was talking about controlling images. She used Asian people for her example but really we have controlling images all over the world. I mean even here in American, black men are seen as gangsters or thugs who probably sell drugs and commit crimes and black females are associated with being "thots" and having big booties. When really that's not the case. I mean just look at Mr. White for example. He is a black man in America but is was a cop for 20 something years and is a very educated man who seems to have his life in order. But if someone sees him walking down the street wearing regular clothing that's not what is going to be running through their head. I don't think controlling images are a good thing at all. It really prevents a lot of people from truly getting to know someone because of what the media and society has tried to make us think of particular group of people. We as individuals need to do our best to stop for a second when we meet someone new and clear our minds of all those controlling images and see for ourselves the true nature of that person. -mybabygirl004
I completely agree it was confusing at times. It was very long and hard to follow. I’m a visual person so I’m very easily distracted when it comes to verbal lectures. I like what you said about how we need to stop for a moment and take those societal images and views and clear our minds to see the actual person. Cannot judge a book by it’s cover, but it is so hard not to. Not only is it race, but it is money, gender, looks, social status that tend to cloud our judgement and label people. Especially in this day and age with all the social media people can be so fake or act a certain a way online while in the “real world” they are completely opposite. I feel like this can also blur our judgement towards other people. No matter what it’s all not fair or not right but I don’t think life is meant to be. ~BabyB004
Yes the video was just a like a basic lecture. It was very dry. The boxes example really caught my attention also. I could understand that some individuals may have a sense of negative feelings toward this. The idea that sometimes no matter if you’re biracial or not that society can choose for you basically. I feel you see this a lot with individuals who are mixed. Like I am sure that many times individuals who are mixed with African American and Caucasian are often referred to as African American when that may not be the case. I could see this with many other mixed races as well. I would say it probably is based off if you look more like one race than the other. -mysonmyworld004
Her presentation to explain the relationship of social constructions with psychological adjustment was very easy to understand. She simply broke down the 5 social constructions. Race, ethnic, gender, sexual and class. The way each of these work together help we identify more specifically. Like race and gender. We can identify as a women but more specifically an African American women. Then the idea she mentions about the media and the controlling images was spot on. The media does tend to stick to describing a whole group as a specific type. She really hit on the boxes you can check when describing yourself and the hardship of being multiracial and not necessarily fitting in one box but not having the option to pick more than one. I want to say that most of the time now it states you can pick as many boxes as you need to. The “other” box has negative stigma attached to it. The fact that it could lead to negative idea of your self is heartbreaking but very understandable. Another idea she gave that was a good example was the gender and the correlation between bodies imagine. We know that there are more women than men who suffer from body imagine issues. Not saying that there aren’t men who also suffer but the norm would consider this a women issue. The examples she gave it made it very easy to understand and put in to context. The idea that the higher of a class your labeled in the greater your health would be and self-esteem. At first I thought well anyone can get sick no matter how much money they have but after thinking about it, I realized that although everyone can get sick that if you have money then you also have better treatment most of the time. Overall it was a good and explainable video. -mysonmyworld004
I really get what your saying about the people that have more money are better off in every aspect including health and self-esteem. Now self-esteem just makes since to me. If you have a lot of money you are most likely a successful person or maybe you are married to a successful person but that alone would boost your self confidence. Then you also are going to have people looking up to you as well and maybe seeking advice from you more so than they would someone who is working a low paying job. Them having better health is also so true. Some people may think with the medical card out there and everyone gets health care that all treatment may be equal but that is so not the case. People with the medical card get pushed to the farthest end of the waiting line no matter what. They don't get the best doctors either like someone who pays out of pocket and has extremely good insurance. The person with the money who has the good insurance is going to get to go to the better doctor, they wont have to wait as long for treatment, and they will get the better medicine. So yea, when it comes to having money your going to have better self-esteem and live a healthier life and it sucks that's the way it is but that's the complete truth. -mybabygirl004
I was not a huge fan of this video. The thing that really stuck out to me was the "other" box controversy. I believe the only reason they have the "other" box as an option is to simply save space. If they tried to add all of the different ethnicities It would take up a whole page. I think that people are maybe being too sensitive about that factor. Also this part makes me upset, I believe that its making a big deal out of being bi-racial like it’s something negative. Maybe I just don't understand because I'm not and I don’t understand how people may feel about it. It could also be where I come from people don't make a big deal out of it as she’s making it sound. This video also made me think that maybe I need to explore other cultures and see how they really feel about their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. I think it would help people be more open minded and less discriminatory. I was a little confused In the beginning of the video I couldn’t follow her really. I found it really interesting when she was talking about how masculinity and femininity is different within the varied races. And how drug use comes into play. I wish she would have added more information about gender and class, because I would have liked to learn more about how it affects certain races and ethnicities. I don’t think it was all bad, I think she had some good examples to use and hot some pretty good points .-lilcakes004
I didn’t like this video either because of the same reasons. I thought that it really could have been named just Bi-Racial Identity because she basically talked about the majority of the time. Also if she would have given more time to the same of the other subjects and tried them together it would have been more insightful. buckrogers004
In regards to the "other" box, most people in our society don't know what they are. Adults everyday are getting DNA testing to know what their ethnicity it and are quite shocked. I will just except what I look like and check the appropriate box even though I know I'm bi racial, why so complicated? myboys004
The lecture was long, but I find the most fascinating aspect of the lecture and what we learned in class is gender typing. The women in the video states that “gender identity is an individual’s fundamental sense of being male or female shaped by gender typing which is potentially independent of cultural and social norms or rules for gender.” First, I had no idea some cultures recognized and accepted a third gender identity. This to me is very interesting, how they respect and find these multi gender people superior to them. Second, male and female, since birth have been expected to perform tasks and roles, and you are born into them and there is not a lot you can do about it. Like the woman in the video said and like Dr. White said in class, girls are given dolls, dress up, and pretend cooking sets all to prepare them for the role of a woman. As a little girl you want to be just like your mommy so this is fun and exciting. Little girls tend to be more nurturing and develop more soft habits growing up rather than males. Males are given trucks, hero action figures, and tool belts; they also seem to be more rough and tough. It’s instinct to grow up and want to be like daddy. She states that “gender identity has nothing to do with your sexual orientation it has to do with how masculine or feminine you feel.” I’ve never hear of gender typing and it does make sense labeling these different aspects of life you see every day but take for granted never fully seeing the big picture. ~BabyB004
I found the recognition of the third gender interesting as well. I had never heard of gender typing either but it's definitely easy to judge others despite not really having much information. Gender doesn't necessarily mean how others define you but how manly or feminine you feel yourself. I liked how you said it's instinct to want to grow up like mommy or daddy, and depending on who you relate to more it can be considered normal or controversial. -chillato004
I too thought the gender typing was the fascinating part in the video and also what we learned in class. When she “gender identity is an individual’s fundamental sense of being male or female shaped by gender typing which is potentially independent of cultural and social norms or rules for gender.” This made a very good point on how different cultures view genders. I also found it interesting how some cultures recognized and accepted a third gender identity. This was something I never knew before. I found it even more interesting how they will view the multi gender people as a superior. I also agree from birth we tend to take after mom and dad. As a little girl we want to follow in mom’s footsteps girls tend to more of a nurture, just as a little boy would want to follow in his father’s footsteps and tend to play more rough. - JustMe1989004
The presenter started with the explanation of Race, Ethnicity and Gender roles that are viewed socially and by the person. The definition of race as being a social constructed category who share a biologically traits. And Ethnicity as being defined by the cultural heritage people that you identify with based on language or religion. She cited a paper by William E. Cross on Racial Identity Development which was used for a study on bi-racial identity. The presenter talked about was the box on an applications under race and the category of “Other” and the people that should check this box as a category they belong in. Gender, the personal traits and social identity people are given in society for a female or male was the last topic that was covered. The subjects under gender were gender identity, Sexual identity and social identity which weren’t explored during the presentation. There was very little presented on Gender before moving back to Racial Identity. The presenter then went back to the racial identity development and give the two categories the study was based on Mono-racial and Bi-racial people. She then spent the majority of time describing the stereotypes that following groups Black-Latino American, Asia-American, and African American. The presenter stated study showed people who were bi-racial should choose the race that they identified with at home and then in society. If bi-racial people chose earlier in life and was accepted in society by that group, they would have greater success with fewer problems physical and social problems. On the other hand if bi-racial people struggled with their racial identity they had health and social problems such as use drug use. According to the presenter, the study help people to accept their racial identity in regards to bi-racial by defining the group. The presenter was hard to follow. And I’m not sure the all of the information should have been together because there was so much information. Buckrogers004
I agree that identity is hard to define and complex because there are so many things that go into it. The way others view you versus your own identity can vary of course because no one knows everything about everyone but themselves. Gender typing is interesting to me because it's such a huge part of sociology. Boys are taught to be manly and masculine while females are supposed to be dainty and feminine. In other countries it is different which is crazy because it's so important in American culture. Transgender identity is becoming more wildly accepted, but in places like Dubai, if you identify as transgender you are not allowed in the country at all. It makes sense that ethnic identity would be confusing but ultimately indifferent until you are taught otherwise, but it's a huge problem. However, exploration and commitment are important for assessing self identity and probably increasing self worth. I'm sure the "other" box is very problematic. I've never been in that situation and I can't imagine it being a very good feeling inside. It's not their fault others always want to categorize and label people. Monoracial models are wrong in my opinion, and rather rude. There's no reason for a person to feel unaccepted or that they have to chose one part of themselves over another. Self acceptance is certainly important and crucial for ones development. Honestly this video was a little hard for me to follow, it's more difficult to listen to a lecture with no visual aid. -chillato004
The video was far too long. She was very hard to follow and understand. The video in general was hard to understand. I couldn’t comprehend most of what she said, but there were some parts in the beginning that I actually paid attention to and understood. The parts that I understood was the part in the beginning when she gave a general overview of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The explanation on gender and sexuality truly caught my eye. The big one was the gender identity and gender typing. Before this video, I did not know that gender was an individual's’ fundamental sense of being male or female and that it was just the things that define masculine and feminine acts and norms. The social norms of society and cultures are what defines the masculine and feminine aspects of how a person should act or identify themselves as, which is the gender typing. For example, my spanish teacher gave us an assignment and then explained to the class in an insincere tone that the world has become more accepting to gender identification and sexuality. He told us to write down in spanish on a piece of paper the typical female and male things that would identify their gender. I wrote down skirts, purses, heels, long hair, and nail polishes for females and ties, suits, short hair, muscles, meat and sports for males. Those are some of the things that identify between males and females. Those are the aspects of gender typing, girls being submissive and following under a man’s rule; boys being strong and dominant, doing the heavy lifting. Those norms and aspects of society have never settle well with me. Aside from the point, I have always wanted the expectations of society to change for females without degrading the males. Females shouldn’t have to be weak and submissive; they should be able to be strong and dominant without being seen as anything less than or without be misunderstood. -Happy004
This was my least favorite video. However, the points that stood out for me that I could relate to was racial identity and ethnic identity. She talked about how racial identity is identified with a socially defined racial category, influenced by racial stratification and historical oppression of racial minorities. She also said that it is a process of learning about and absorbing meaning and value to socially constructed racial hierchys and categories. This statement was confusing but I think that when you are born you see your mother, father, brother, sister,etc you learn the meaning and values of your own racial identity. The ones you grow up with look like you have your features so that's what you are going to identify with. With ethnic identity, she talked about the culture of origin through more culture wanting to belong to a centain group, learning the meaning and values to the cultural heritages and practice of socially constructed ethnic groups or categories. Wanting a sense of membership and belonging to an ethnic group including knowledge, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors associated with that ethnic group. I have sen this time and time again with ones race wanting to belong to another ethnic group, talking like them, acting like them, even trying to cook their ethnic dishes. This is where the multiracial development comes in. myboys004
I found there to be a common theme to the areas of society that she spoke of: racial, ethnic, gender, social class and sexuality. While she gave several levels of discovery of each area, most of the areas had an initial exploration phase of gender, race, etc. and finally a commitment phase of/to gender, race, etc. I found this interesting to think about because while it can be very easy to look at someone and categorize them as male, female, black, white, gay, straight, etc., we can also wonder what brought them to that point? What happened to the males in early life to ‘make’ them male? Same goes for female, sexuality, etc. Does society (family, community, media) shape people into being male or female, gay or straight? What gender processing took place to produce who we are today? What led us to choose our gender? Are transgender people more enlightened than we ‘mono gendered’ people? Lots to think about. If we were part of the Hawaiian Tribe that the presenter spoke about – would transgender people be revered, or is it simply the androgynous? It’s fascinating! The presenter spoke of people feeling disappointment when they weren’t able to find the correct box that correlates to their race. The same holds true for just about every category of a single person. Even within a given gender, there are so many differences and combinations. Take females for example; what race is she, mother, stay at home mom, no children, professional, social class, married, single, and the list can go on. You would think that everyone in that gender could accept others differences within that gender, but there is always discord between the mothers and non-mothers, working moms and stay at home moms, married vs. single. Why is there discord? Is it because we feel comforted by those who checked the same box as we did? ~happilycurious004
I like your post it really got me thinking. We do sometimes see that in society where a girl was raised by all men and she acts a little tougher. Or a bot raised by all females can turn out to be pretty girly. When other times nothing stops a girl from being a girl and a boy from being a boy?! WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? so interesting to learn about how these things happen! RueTootie004
I think that society does play a role in gender and personality development, but I think the biggest role in how a person develops is the parenting and lifestyles that the child is exposed to. I don't necessarily think that a boy that plays with dolls will end up being a homosexual or a girl that helps her dad work on cars or go hunting will end up as a lesbian. I'm not sure that I am 100% convinced that it is biological either. Whatever a person wants to be is their business and I do think that people are far to often expressing their disapproval or negative comments just to create a problem in society. To each their own. bdole004
I agree that it is interesting to think of how people have come to identify a certain way. I think as a society we focus more on the end game. We are all about results and don’t really think about how we get places. I also never considered transgender people to be more enlightened but that is definitely an interesting take. Definitely some really good insight to a really dry video! -DTH004
This video is one of the longer videos we have seen and it felt like it! I also found it hard to pay attention, it felt like she was reading the text word for word instead of teaching it to me. I found it hard to process the information she was giving, I think this was because she referred to the text a lot and obviously I have no idea what text she is referring to. The part of this video that really stuck out to me was racial recognition and ethnic identity. Dr. White discussed this issue in class and also used the example she did. I liked the way she explained how there is complications when identifying yourself. At home you may feel one way but at school you may be presented or stereotyped another way. She also explained the monoracial model very well I really realized how we are living in a monoracial identity model We don’t allow people to fit into multiple group identities and that can lead to internal conflicts. RueTootie004
In class we heard so many people talk about growing up and not seeing anyone outside of their race or there class bracket. I was the complete opposite. I went to Peoria Public Schools and went to a high school where "white people" were actually a minority. And a lot of these people grew up on the south side of Peoria so still identified as "black" in a cultural sense. I don't know. I've told people Socialogy class kind of makes me angry. I understand that these social classes and bias are there in the world but also hate that we are all assumed to feel these bias or have lived said lives. KtKay004
I feel like I would be okay with checking the box “other”. That means I have no other identity than just being myself. Marking “other” makes it very clear that you must talk to me and get to know me before you can assume anything. This can be for race and your ethnic background. Being a 20 something year old in this time I find it difficult to connect with constantly being told I need to catergorize myself. In gender, race and ethnic background. There is a big group of people in my generation that understand that there is a lot more to life than identifying to basic check mark boxes. I enjoyed hearing about the Hawian tribe who has made Asian and European into a new box or identity itself. My sons father is black and I am white and I have said for years that I truly believe in only about 50 years the majority of people in the United States will be a light brown or “mixed” race. It needs to become it’s own identity. I had a friend in college who was raised by her white mother and her mothers girlfriend whom was white also. But she is biracial and when she was applying to college she would mark the “black” box because she knew she could possibly get more grants and money to go towards college due to the different scholarships offered to only black people. She was pretty smart in doing this. For static reasons I know why putting gender and race down on applications or global test makes sense but I also want to live in the world where it just doesn’t matter. KtKay004
I agree that I dislike that I have to put myself in a box of people. I have the problem that I am two that they do not let you mark together. There are certain reasons some places like health care and insurance companies ask because certain races are more likely to have diseases. I don't think colleges and jobs should ask color because it means nothing other than them getting a tax cut. - Kitsune004
This video was pretty dry and straight forward. It was pretty easy to understand what she was explain in her presentation. As a human we are made up of different identities that makes us who we are, we learn this in any sociology or psychology class we may take. But there were a few things that still stuck out to me. The main one was when she mentioned the bi-racial and how it can cause more confusing, and make them wonder “who am I”, and how you don’t really even get to choose your identity. Society does tend to force the person to either one ethnicity or the other. Even though multi-race is more common in society there is still a lot of key factors such as not being able to check a box of your ethnicity that puts conflict in society with those who multi- race, not really allowing them to both, or all of their ethnicity background. As for males and females expected to play “their roles” in society, this is something that I think we can all agree with. It is taught in every generation, no matter how much society has evolved over the years we are still taught there is a difference between a man and a woman. We are seeing more women working, and men helping at home, but there still a divide. Women are still more likely to take care of the kids and do the house work compared to men. Society even divides us as children as we learned in class also, how girl’s play with dolls they play house or dress up, boys play in the dirt, wrestle with each other, and play with cars. I also found it interesting when she started talking about controlling images. This is something we see on a day to day basis. Society tends to link negativity to a person’s id just by their skin color when in fact there is a lot to them than the typical stereo types. -JustMe1989004
I like how you pointed out the Bi-racial topic. Being bi-racial at one point in time I did ask my parents what do I put when checking the box. Do I put African American, do I put white, can I check both, or do I put other. It can be a confusing thing to come across at times. -Boop004-
Call me old fashioned, but I think people associate their identity in a variety of ways because of the way they are raised as well as things that have happened in their lives including a variety of exposures at school, on the internet and social media, and television. We have all been raised in different areas, with different beliefs, and with a huge variety of challenges and and disciplines that have affected our way of thought in one way or another. I can be taught and can learn several different beliefs of the way people are different, how they choose to be based on their gender, and ways they live their life because of their race and how they associate their identity. I came from a small town and did not have the opportunity to interact with many if any people of other races, we did not have people in our town that associated themselves as a transgender or as gay or lesbian. I feel that because of this I have been better of than other people that are in my situation. I myself have no problem being able to find relationships with people of any race, ethnicity, or identity. As for how I am and what I identify with as a woman my husband and I have had a working relationship in our household as to who does what and some of it is based on our gender. He does all the mowing and yard work, the garbage, puts gas in the vehicles, and does any of the handy work that needs to be done on the home. My job is mostly home and dealing with the disciplines of the children. It has worked for us for twenty plus years so why fix what's not broken. I feel like I attribute this not only to our ages but to how we were raised as well. We both were raised by our grandparents who were old for their own generation. bdole004
Bdole004- I agree with you that we people associate their identity with many factors. I took from this video that the identity models outline the many influences for peoples identity. I find it interesting that even though you grew up and what I think would be considered a hyper-segregated environment you still are able to be open to differences. It is interesting how gender identity has evolved even looking at the last 60 years. Women fix cars or mow the grass! Men stay home with the kids. This goes against societies standards. -Kylegoldheart004
This video was somewhat hard to follow at times do to her ability of talking really fast, and she had a lot of information to cover in a little amount of time. I found a couple topics that jumped out to me better than the rest. I liked how she took the time to talk about the differences between Race identities and Ethnic identities. I thought they were the same thing before this video and class. I thought Gender identity had to do with your sexual preference with either a guy wanted to act and be like a girl or a girl wanting to be a guy type of thing. She was saying that it’s not about that and that those are examples of Sexual identity. Gender Identity how she explained it is about how masculine or feminine you feel and I did not know there could be a neutral gender in some cultures. In my Psychology class we talked about gender typing, and how now a days how gender typing is becoming less and less. Like how parents are giving now giving boys dolls because that’s what he wants to play with and giving girls sport equipment other than vice versa. switching topics quickly I thought what she said about social class and making more than enough money to provide for your family does lower stress because you would not be so worried about where your next pay check is coming from. -CFC004
Racial identity, ethnic identity, and gender identity were all talked about during the video. When I was younger I never really noticed the differences between ethnic and racial groups, until I was old enough to understand that everyone was from a different home than I originated. Now you can look on a census or questionnaire there are so many racial identities. It is very hard to find a Hispanic Caucasian box in those surveys. Most surveys say non-Hispanic Caucasian or Hispanic non-Caucasian. I may not look Hispanic but I still would like to recognize my father's heritage. It is very confusing because both have different chances of having health concerns also. Another thing that was talked about was gender identity; if I was being politically correct there are many gender identities like male,female, trans-male,trans-female. In reality, there are only two with health concerns. Another gender part of the gender identity would be that girls are supposed to be dainty and males are supposed to be a handyman. those are not all the same in all cultures so the roles could be reversed. The video also says that all of the identities are connected to psychology. If a person fits the identity stereotype that they are likely to be less likely to be depressed, but a problem is that you could be likely to have stress. Gay identifiers could acquire HIV or more likely to be bullied or try drugs. I believe that there is a chance that you are more likely to be bullied by not fitting in because the people may think you are being deviant and people dislike anything that is not normal. -Kitsune004
This video had me zone in and out a lot lol. With listening to her I knew there were different types of identities but I didn’t know how in depth they were. When she was talking about the third identity it didn’t click to me to think about the other people out there that consider them self as an identity, she even said as white America we only think of male and female. With gender identity there is gender typing which is when boys learn to be boys and same with girls. But at the same time girls learn how to get down and dirty and then there are boys that don’t like to even get dirty. When it comes to sexual identity some people are A sexual and some are bisexual but I don’t think that should be your identity. I think that this helped me understand more about identity than what I already knew. She was throwing me off for a bit but at some times she would catch me again. I did like how she went into the racial aspect of it. When talking about the ethnic identity I understood somewhat but she was confusing me when she kept saying identity. Was she talking about the ethic or just identity? Talking about multiracial and checking the boxes stood out to me, considering I am multiracial (African American and white) when I am filling something out and it says check one I either check the African American or I do check the other because I am more than just that one. I do wish they would let you mark two boxes and they might have but I have never seen them. -Boop004-
I definitely think that this video suffered from being pretty boring. Lecture is usually not super entertaining and it was the longest video we have watched yet. I thought it was interesting that multi-racial identities can have different meanings depending on where you are. At home you may identify as one thing, while society pushes you to identify as another. This is another example where the power of society pushes itself into things that we consider a personal choice. Things such as who our role models are and who we grow up around can greatly affect who we identify as when it comes to ethnicity. Another thing that can affect our multiracial identity is double rejection, where both groups don’t want to claim and individual. Being forced to choose one identity when you actually identify with multiple ones can also be detrimental. Like we talked about in class, growing up in a different racial community can have a huge impact on our ethnic identity. I also found it interesting that having other on racial questionnaires can actually be a bad thing. I never really thought that it could cause problems with people mentally. When they think they don’t belong and that they are not represented they start to feel isolated from society. It is inevitable that someone is always going to be left out because people are so diverse. It is interesting to think that being individual can actually be a bad thing when people are analyzing who they are. -DTH004
I like how you said that, "at home you may identify as one thing, while society pushes you to identify as another." I think that is very accurate in today's society. It doesn't seem as if you are given the freedom to just be multi-ethnic, it seems as it you are forced to choose one ethnicity over another. -Antoinette004
I think this lecture was very long, but for the most part, to the point. I think the part that stood out to me the most was the part of race identity. I never really thought about how being an "other" would effect people. I, myself, am a white female, so I've truly, never had to really think about checking any other box then, white. It makes sense though as to why that would negatively effect people. If you grow up never being able to accurately identify yourself it would start to take a toll on you and effect how you view yourself. I like how she pointed out that multi-ethnic people are forced to choose between checking one box over another versus being able to just check bot and how that also has a negative effect on how people view themselves and how their family and outsiders view them as well. -Antoinette004
I agree with you about not knowing your identity would start to take a toll on you after a time because everyone wants to belongs to something or someone. I think you should be able to check every box that applies to that person. wonderwoman004
I felt that this video was a little boring and long. She talked about the different social construction. Race is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important. We classify a person with a certain race by the way they look or the color of their skin. Race is always a very interesting topic for me because I am a black women but by looking at me no one would guess that my great grandfather on my father's side was a white man and my great grandmother was half product of a white father and black mother also on my mother"s side my great grandfather was a Cherokee Indian. The second thing that was interesting in her video was gender roles it is so funny how as kids it is role playing, the boys get guns and toy cars and the girls get dolls and cooking sets. I never really thought about it before now but we do use these toys to teach kids their roles in life when they grow up. This cause me to remember when I was a kid and how if a boy wanted to play with a doll the father would get made and want to punish the child. Identity and all the counter parts that go with it are so complex. I never really thought about until watching this video. It cause me to look at it with new eyes. I think it is things like this that cause people to think about life. wonderwoman004
I commend the speaker! She really worked that 30 minutes out. The speaker addressed 5 identity models: racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, and class identity models. I relate most with the gender and racial identity models. I am an aggressive women and this has been the topic of many arguments in my past relationships. Society says that girls/women are soft, delicate, and submissive. I had trouble being some of these things and have been told that I want to be the "man" in my heterosexual relationship. I also have been directly influenced by the class identity model. I struggle with acceptance in this category since I have become aware of racism. I do believe I am hypersensitive to racial conflicts. One model the speaker addressed that I don't personally have experience with but I still see having a heavy influence is racial identity. America is becoming more and more diverse by the minute and as a result we have more diversification of our nations census and application processes. This model brings to mind a lyrics from well-known biracial rapper Drake in his song title "You and the 6." Drake says: "I used to get teased for being black and now I'm here and I'm not black enough, 'cause I'm not acting tough." Drake dealt with the consequences of "otherness" where social marginalization and isolation resulted in his denial by both races quoted by the speaker. -kylegoldheart004
I commend the speaker! She really worked that 30 minutes out. The speaker addressed 5 identity models: racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, and class identity models. I relate most with the gender and racial identity models. I am an aggressive women and this has been the topic of many arguments in my past relationships. Society says that girls/women are soft, delicate, and submissive. I had trouble being some of these things and have been told that I want to be the "man" in my heterosexual relationship. I also have been directly influenced by the class identity model. I struggle with acceptance in this category since I have become aware of racism. I do believe I am hypersensitive to racial conflicts. One model the speaker addressed that I don't personally have experience with but I still see having a heavy influence is racial identity. America is becoming more and more diverse by the minute and as a result we have more diversification of our nations census and application processes. This model brings to mind a lyrics from well-known biracial rapper Drake in his song title "You and the 6." Drake says: "I used to get teased for being black and now I'm here and I'm not black enough, 'cause I'm not acting tough." Drake dealt with the consequences of "otherness" where social marginalization and isolation resulted in his denial by both races quoted by the speaker. -kylegoldheart004
Well honestly, I found that clip a little bit confusing at times. I wasn't always a hundred percent on what she was talking about. There were still a few things I picked up and found really interesting though. The first thing I noticed was when she was talking about the boxes you check for your race when you have to fill out forms. She was mentioning the box listed as other and how a lot of bi-racial people might have to check that box if say they are African American mixed with Asian and maybe African American is listed but Asian is not so the have to check the other box. She then goes on to say that by checking the other box it can cause sort of an identity crisis in the way of trying to figure out "who am I" according to these boxes. Another thing that she was talking about when it comes to bi-racial people is that in a lot of countries people just have to accept the identity that the society assigns to you. If you are multi-racial, you don't get to just choose your own identity but you have to go with what society tells you that you are. I found that extremely interesting. It's hard for me living in America and having all the freedoms that we do have to imagine living in a place like that where you can't even claim your own identity. The last thing that really stuck out to me was when she was talking about controlling images. She used Asian people for her example but really we have controlling images all over the world. I mean even here in American, black men are seen as gangsters or thugs who probably sell drugs and commit crimes and black females are associated with being "thots" and having big booties. When really that's not the case. I mean just look at Mr. White for example. He is a black man in America but is was a cop for 20 something years and is a very educated man who seems to have his life in order. But if someone sees him walking down the street wearing regular clothing that's not what is going to be running through their head. I don't think controlling images are a good thing at all. It really prevents a lot of people from truly getting to know someone because of what the media and society has tried to make us think of particular group of people. We as individuals need to do our best to stop for a second when we meet someone new and clear our minds of all those controlling images and see for ourselves the true nature of that person.
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I completely agree it was confusing at times. It was very long and hard to follow. I’m a visual person so I’m very easily distracted when it comes to verbal lectures. I like what you said about how we need to stop for a moment and take those societal images and views and clear our minds to see the actual person. Cannot judge a book by it’s cover, but it is so hard not to. Not only is it race, but it is money, gender, looks, social status that tend to cloud our judgement and label people. Especially in this day and age with all the social media people can be so fake or act a certain a way online while in the “real world” they are completely opposite. I feel like this can also blur our judgement towards other people. No matter what it’s all not fair or not right but I don’t think life is meant to be.
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Yes the video was just a like a basic lecture. It was very dry. The boxes example really caught my attention also. I could understand that some individuals may have a sense of negative feelings toward this. The idea that sometimes no matter if you’re biracial or not that society can choose for you basically. I feel you see this a lot with individuals who are mixed. Like I am sure that many times individuals who are mixed with African American and Caucasian are often referred to as African American when that may not be the case. I could see this with many other mixed races as well. I would say it probably is based off if you look more like one race than the other.
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Her presentation to explain the relationship of social constructions with psychological adjustment was very easy to understand. She simply broke down the 5 social constructions. Race, ethnic, gender, sexual and class. The way each of these work together help we identify more specifically. Like race and gender. We can identify as a women but more specifically an African American women. Then the idea she mentions about the media and the controlling images was spot on. The media does tend to stick to describing a whole group as a specific type. She really hit on the boxes you can check when describing yourself and the hardship of being multiracial and not necessarily fitting in one box but not having the option to pick more than one. I want to say that most of the time now it states you can pick as many boxes as you need to. The “other” box has negative stigma attached to it. The fact that it could lead to negative idea of your self is heartbreaking but very understandable. Another idea she gave that was a good example was the gender and the correlation between bodies imagine. We know that there are more women than men who suffer from body imagine issues. Not saying that there aren’t men who also suffer but the norm would consider this a women issue. The examples she gave it made it very easy to understand and put in to context. The idea that the higher of a class your labeled in the greater your health would be and self-esteem. At first I thought well anyone can get sick no matter how much money they have but after thinking about it, I realized that although everyone can get sick that if you have money then you also have better treatment most of the time. Overall it was a good and explainable video.
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I really get what your saying about the people that have more money are better off in every aspect including health and self-esteem. Now self-esteem just makes since to me. If you have a lot of money you are most likely a successful person or maybe you are married to a successful person but that alone would boost your self confidence. Then you also are going to have people looking up to you as well and maybe seeking advice from you more so than they would someone who is working a low paying job. Them having better health is also so true. Some people may think with the medical card out there and everyone gets health care that all treatment may be equal but that is so not the case. People with the medical card get pushed to the farthest end of the waiting line no matter what. They don't get the best doctors either like someone who pays out of pocket and has extremely good insurance. The person with the money who has the good insurance is going to get to go to the better doctor, they wont have to wait as long for treatment, and they will get the better medicine. So yea, when it comes to having money your going to have better self-esteem and live a healthier life and it sucks that's the way it is but that's the complete truth.
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I was not a huge fan of this video. The thing that really stuck out to me was the "other" box controversy. I believe the only reason they have the "other" box as an option is to simply save space. If they tried to add all of the different ethnicities It would take up a whole page. I think that people are maybe being too sensitive about that factor. Also this part makes me upset, I believe that its making a big deal out of being bi-racial like it’s something negative. Maybe I just don't understand because I'm not and I don’t understand how people may feel about it. It could also be where I come from people don't make a big deal out of it as she’s making it sound. This video also made me think that maybe I need to explore other cultures and see how they really feel about their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. I think it would help people be more open minded and less discriminatory. I was a little confused In the beginning of the video I couldn’t follow her really. I found it really interesting when she was talking about how masculinity and femininity is different within the varied races. And how drug use comes into play. I wish she would have added more information about gender and class, because I would have liked to learn more about how it affects certain races and ethnicities. I don’t think it was all bad, I think she had some good examples to use and hot some pretty good points .-lilcakes004
ReplyDeleteI didn’t like this video either because of the same reasons. I thought that it really could have been named just Bi-Racial Identity because she basically talked about the majority of the time. Also if she would have given more time to the same of the other subjects and tried them together it would have been more insightful.
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In regards to the "other" box, most people in our society don't know what they are. Adults everyday are getting DNA testing to know what their ethnicity it and are quite shocked. I will just except what I look like and check the appropriate box even though I know I'm bi racial, why so complicated? myboys004
DeleteThe lecture was long, but I find the most fascinating aspect of the lecture and what we learned in class is gender typing. The women in the video states that “gender identity is an individual’s fundamental sense of being male or female shaped by gender typing which is potentially independent of cultural and social norms or rules for gender.” First, I had no idea some cultures recognized and accepted a third gender identity. This to me is very interesting, how they respect and find these multi gender people superior to them. Second, male and female, since birth have been expected to perform tasks and roles, and you are born into them and there is not a lot you can do about it. Like the woman in the video said and like Dr. White said in class, girls are given dolls, dress up, and pretend cooking sets all to prepare them for the role of a woman. As a little girl you want to be just like your mommy so this is fun and exciting. Little girls tend to be more nurturing and develop more soft habits growing up rather than males. Males are given trucks, hero action figures, and tool belts; they also seem to be more rough and tough. It’s instinct to grow up and want to be like daddy. She states that “gender identity has nothing to do with your sexual orientation it has to do with how masculine or feminine you feel.” I’ve never hear of gender typing and it does make sense labeling these different aspects of life you see every day but take for granted never fully seeing the big picture.
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I found the recognition of the third gender interesting as well. I had never heard of gender typing either but it's definitely easy to judge others despite not really having much information. Gender doesn't necessarily mean how others define you but how manly or feminine you feel yourself. I liked how you said it's instinct to want to grow up like mommy or daddy, and depending on who you relate to more it can be considered normal or controversial.
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I too thought the gender typing was the fascinating part in the video and also what we learned in class. When she “gender identity is an individual’s fundamental sense of being male or female shaped by gender typing which is potentially independent of cultural and social norms or rules for gender.” This made a very good point on how different cultures view genders. I also found it interesting how some cultures recognized and accepted a third gender identity. This was something I never knew before. I found it even more interesting how they will view the multi gender people as a superior. I also agree from birth we tend to take after mom and dad. As a little girl we want to follow in mom’s footsteps girls tend to more of a nurture, just as a little boy would want to follow in his father’s footsteps and tend to play more rough. - JustMe1989004
DeleteThe presenter started with the explanation of Race, Ethnicity and Gender roles that are viewed socially and by the person. The definition of race as being a social constructed category who share a biologically traits. And Ethnicity as being defined by the cultural heritage people that you identify with based on language or religion. She cited a paper by William E. Cross on Racial Identity Development which was used for a study on bi-racial identity. The presenter talked about was the box on an applications under race and the category of “Other” and the people that should check this box as a category they belong in.
ReplyDeleteGender, the personal traits and social identity people are given in society for a female or male was the last topic that was covered. The subjects under gender were gender identity, Sexual identity and social identity which weren’t explored during the presentation. There was very little presented on Gender before moving back to Racial Identity.
The presenter then went back to the racial identity development and give the two categories the study was based on Mono-racial and Bi-racial people. She then spent the majority of time describing the stereotypes that following groups Black-Latino American, Asia-American, and African American. The presenter stated study showed people who were bi-racial should choose the race that they identified with at home and then in society. If bi-racial people chose earlier in life and was accepted in society by that group, they would have greater success with fewer problems physical and social problems. On the other hand if bi-racial people struggled with their racial identity they had health and social problems such as use drug use. According to the presenter, the study help people to accept their racial identity in regards to bi-racial by defining the group.
The presenter was hard to follow. And I’m not sure the all of the information should have been together because there was so much information.
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I agree that identity is hard to define and complex because there are so many things that go into it. The way others view you versus your own identity can vary of course because no one knows everything about everyone but themselves. Gender typing is interesting to me because it's such a huge part of sociology. Boys are taught to be manly and masculine while females are supposed to be dainty and feminine. In other countries it is different which is crazy because it's so important in American culture. Transgender identity is becoming more wildly accepted, but in places like Dubai, if you identify as transgender you are not allowed in the country at all. It makes sense that ethnic identity would be confusing but ultimately indifferent until you are taught otherwise, but it's a huge problem. However, exploration and commitment are important for assessing self identity and probably increasing self worth. I'm sure the "other" box is very problematic. I've never been in that situation and I can't imagine it being a very good feeling inside. It's not their fault others always want to categorize and label people. Monoracial models are wrong in my opinion, and rather rude. There's no reason for a person to feel unaccepted or that they have to chose one part of themselves over another. Self acceptance is certainly important and crucial for ones development. Honestly this video was a little hard for me to follow, it's more difficult to listen to a lecture with no visual aid.
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The video was far too long. She was very hard to follow and understand. The video in general was hard to understand. I couldn’t comprehend most of what she said, but there were some parts in the beginning that I actually paid attention to and understood. The parts that I understood was the part in the beginning when she gave a general overview of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The explanation on gender and sexuality truly caught my eye. The big one was the gender identity and gender typing. Before this video, I did not know that gender was an individual's’ fundamental sense of being male or female and that it was just the things that define masculine and feminine acts and norms. The social norms of society and cultures are what defines the masculine and feminine aspects of how a person should act or identify themselves as, which is the gender typing. For example, my spanish teacher gave us an assignment and then explained to the class in an insincere tone that the world has become more accepting to gender identification and sexuality. He told us to write down in spanish on a piece of paper the typical female and male things that would identify their gender. I wrote down skirts, purses, heels, long hair, and nail polishes for females and ties, suits, short hair, muscles, meat and sports for males. Those are some of the things that identify between males and females. Those are the aspects of gender typing, girls being submissive and following under a man’s rule; boys being strong and dominant, doing the heavy lifting. Those norms and aspects of society have never settle well with me. Aside from the point, I have always wanted the expectations of society to change for females without degrading the males. Females shouldn’t have to be weak and submissive; they should be able to be strong and dominant without being seen as anything less than or without be misunderstood. -Happy004
ReplyDeleteThis was my least favorite video. However, the points that stood out for me that I could relate to was racial identity and ethnic identity. She talked about how racial identity is identified with a socially defined racial category, influenced by racial stratification and historical oppression of racial minorities. She also said that it is a process of learning about and absorbing meaning and value to socially constructed racial hierchys and categories. This statement was confusing but I think that when you are born you see your mother, father, brother, sister,etc you learn the meaning and values of your own racial identity. The ones you grow up with look like you have your features so that's what you are going to identify with. With ethnic identity, she talked about the culture of origin through more culture wanting to belong to a centain group, learning the meaning and values to the cultural heritages and practice of socially constructed ethnic groups or categories. Wanting a sense of membership and belonging to an ethnic group including knowledge, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors associated with that ethnic group. I have sen this time and time again with ones race wanting to belong to another ethnic group, talking like them, acting like them, even trying to cook their ethnic dishes. This is where the multiracial development comes in. myboys004
ReplyDeleteI found there to be a common theme to the areas of society that she spoke of: racial, ethnic, gender, social class and sexuality. While she gave several levels of discovery of each area, most of the areas had an initial exploration phase of gender, race, etc. and finally a commitment phase of/to gender, race, etc. I found this interesting to think about because while it can be very easy to look at someone and categorize them as male, female, black, white, gay, straight, etc., we can also wonder what brought them to that point? What happened to the males in early life to ‘make’ them male? Same goes for female, sexuality, etc. Does society (family, community, media) shape people into being male or female, gay or straight? What gender processing took place to produce who we are today? What led us to choose our gender? Are transgender people more enlightened than we ‘mono gendered’ people? Lots to think about. If we were part of the Hawaiian Tribe that the presenter spoke about – would transgender people be revered, or is it simply the androgynous? It’s fascinating! The presenter spoke of people feeling disappointment when they weren’t able to find the correct box that correlates to their race. The same holds true for just about every category of a single person. Even within a given gender, there are so many differences and combinations. Take females for example; what race is she, mother, stay at home mom, no children, professional, social class, married, single, and the list can go on. You would think that everyone in that gender could accept others differences within that gender, but there is always discord between the mothers and non-mothers, working moms and stay at home moms, married vs. single. Why is there discord? Is it because we feel comforted by those who checked the same box as we did? ~happilycurious004
ReplyDeleteI like your post it really got me thinking. We do sometimes see that in society where a girl was raised by all men and she acts a little tougher. Or a bot raised by all females can turn out to be pretty girly. When other times nothing stops a girl from being a girl and a boy from being a boy?! WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? so interesting to learn about how these things happen! RueTootie004
DeleteI think that society does play a role in gender and personality development, but I think the biggest role in how a person develops is the parenting and lifestyles that the child is exposed to. I don't necessarily think that a boy that plays with dolls will end up being a homosexual or a girl that helps her dad work on cars or go hunting will end up as a lesbian. I'm not sure that I am 100% convinced that it is biological either. Whatever a person wants to be is their business and I do think that people are far to often expressing their disapproval or negative comments just to create a problem in society. To each their own. bdole004
DeleteI agree that it is interesting to think of how people have come to identify a certain way. I think as a society we focus more on the end game. We are all about results and don’t really think about how we get places. I also never considered transgender people to be more enlightened but that is definitely an interesting take. Definitely some really good insight to a really dry video!
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This video is one of the longer videos we have seen and it felt like it! I also found it hard to pay attention, it felt like she was reading the text word for word instead of teaching it to me. I found it hard to process the information she was giving, I think this was because she referred to the text a lot and obviously I have no idea what text she is referring to. The part of this video that really stuck out to me was racial recognition and ethnic identity. Dr. White discussed this issue in class and also used the example she did. I liked the way she explained how there is complications when identifying yourself. At home you may feel one way but at school you may be presented or stereotyped another way. She also explained the monoracial model very well I really realized how we are living in a monoracial identity model We don’t allow people to fit into multiple group identities and that can lead to internal conflicts. RueTootie004
ReplyDeleteIn class we heard so many people talk about growing up and not seeing anyone outside of their race or there class bracket. I was the complete opposite. I went to Peoria Public Schools and went to a high school where "white people" were actually a minority. And a lot of these people grew up on the south side of Peoria so still identified as "black" in a cultural sense. I don't know. I've told people Socialogy class kind of makes me angry. I understand that these social classes and bias are there in the world but also hate that we are all assumed to feel these bias or have lived said lives.
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I feel like I would be okay with checking the box “other”. That means I have no other identity than just being myself. Marking “other” makes it very clear that you must talk to me and get to know me before you can assume anything. This can be for race and your ethnic background. Being a 20 something year old in this time I find it difficult to connect with constantly being told I need to catergorize myself. In gender, race and ethnic background. There is a big group of people in my generation that understand that there is a lot more to life than identifying to basic check mark boxes. I enjoyed hearing about the Hawian tribe who has made Asian and European into a new box or identity itself. My sons father is black and I am white and I have said for years that I truly believe in only about 50 years the majority of people in the United States will be a light brown or “mixed” race. It needs to become it’s own identity. I had a friend in college who was raised by her white mother and her mothers girlfriend whom was white also. But she is biracial and when she was applying to college she would mark the “black” box because she knew she could possibly get more grants and money to go towards college due to the different scholarships offered to only black people. She was pretty smart in doing this. For static reasons I know why putting gender and race down on applications or global test makes sense but I also want to live in the world where it just doesn’t matter. KtKay004
ReplyDeleteI agree that I dislike that I have to put myself in a box of people. I have the problem that I am two that they do not let you mark together. There are certain reasons some places like health care and insurance companies ask because certain races are more likely to have diseases. I don't think colleges and jobs should ask color because it means nothing other than them getting a tax cut.
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This video was pretty dry and straight forward. It was pretty easy to understand what she was explain in her presentation. As a human we are made up of different identities that makes us who we are, we learn this in any sociology or psychology class we may take. But there were a few things that still stuck out to me. The main one was when she mentioned the bi-racial and how it can cause more confusing, and make them wonder “who am I”, and how you don’t really even get to choose your identity. Society does tend to force the person to either one ethnicity or the other. Even though multi-race is more common in society there is still a lot of key factors such as not being able to check a box of your ethnicity that puts conflict in society with those who multi- race, not really allowing them to both, or all of their ethnicity background. As for males and females expected to play “their roles” in society, this is something that I think we can all agree with. It is taught in every generation, no matter how much society has evolved over the years we are still taught there is a difference between a man and a woman. We are seeing more women working, and men helping at home, but there still a divide. Women are still more likely to take care of the kids and do the house work compared to men. Society even divides us as children as we learned in class also, how girl’s play with dolls they play house or dress up, boys play in the dirt, wrestle with each other, and play with cars. I also found it interesting when she started talking about controlling images. This is something we see on a day to day basis. Society tends to link negativity to a person’s id just by their skin color when in fact there is a lot to them than the typical stereo types. -JustMe1989004
ReplyDeleteI like how you pointed out the Bi-racial topic. Being bi-racial at one point in time I did ask my parents what do I put when checking the box. Do I put African American, do I put white, can I check both, or do I put other. It can be a confusing thing to come across at times.
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Call me old fashioned, but I think people associate their identity in a variety of ways because of the way they are raised as well as things that have happened in their lives including a variety of exposures at school, on the internet and social media, and television. We have all been raised in different areas, with different beliefs, and with a huge variety of challenges and and disciplines that have affected our way of thought in one way or another. I can be taught and can learn several different beliefs of the way people are different, how they choose to be based on their gender, and ways they live their life because of their race and how they associate their identity. I came from a small town and did not have the opportunity to interact with many if any people of other races, we did not have people in our town that associated themselves as a transgender or as gay or lesbian. I feel that because of this I have been better of than other people that are in my situation. I myself have no problem being able to find relationships with people of any race, ethnicity, or identity. As for how I am and what I identify with as a woman my husband and I have had a working relationship in our household as to who does what and some of it is based on our gender. He does all the mowing and yard work, the garbage, puts gas in the vehicles, and does any of the handy work that needs to be done on the home. My job is mostly home and dealing with the disciplines of the children. It has worked for us for twenty plus years so why fix what's not broken. I feel like I attribute this not only to our ages but to how we were raised as well. We both were raised by our grandparents who were old for their own generation. bdole004
ReplyDeleteBdole004- I agree with you that we people associate their identity with many factors. I took from this video that the identity models outline the many influences for peoples identity. I find it interesting that even though you grew up and what I think would be considered a hyper-segregated environment you still are able to be open to differences. It is interesting how gender identity has evolved even looking at the last 60 years. Women fix cars or mow the grass! Men stay home with the kids. This goes against societies standards. -Kylegoldheart004
DeleteThis video was somewhat hard to follow at times do to her ability of talking really fast, and she had a lot of information to cover in a little amount of time. I found a couple topics that jumped out to me better than the rest. I liked how she took the time to talk about the differences between Race identities and Ethnic identities. I thought they were the same thing before this video and class. I thought Gender identity had to do with your sexual preference with either a guy wanted to act and be like a girl or a girl wanting to be a guy type of thing. She was saying that it’s not about that and that those are examples of Sexual identity. Gender Identity how she explained it is about how masculine or feminine you feel and I did not know there could be a neutral gender in some cultures. In my Psychology class we talked about gender typing, and how now a days how gender typing is becoming less and less. Like how parents are giving now giving boys dolls because that’s what he wants to play with and giving girls sport equipment other than vice versa. switching topics quickly I thought what she said about social class and making more than enough money to provide for your family does lower stress because you would not be so worried about where your next pay check is coming from.
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Racial identity, ethnic identity, and gender identity were all talked about during the video. When I was younger I never really noticed the differences between ethnic and racial groups, until I was old enough to understand that everyone was from a different home than I originated. Now you can look on a census or questionnaire there are so many racial identities. It is very hard to find a Hispanic Caucasian box in those surveys. Most surveys say non-Hispanic Caucasian or Hispanic non-Caucasian. I may not look Hispanic but I still would like to recognize my father's heritage. It is very confusing because both have different chances of having health concerns also. Another thing that was talked about was gender identity; if I was being politically correct there are many gender identities like male,female, trans-male,trans-female. In reality, there are only two with health concerns. Another gender part of the gender identity would be that girls are supposed to be dainty and males are supposed to be a handyman. those are not all the same in all cultures so the roles could be reversed. The video also says that all of the identities are connected to psychology. If a person fits the identity stereotype that they are likely to be less likely to be depressed, but a problem is that you could be likely to have stress. Gay identifiers could acquire HIV or more likely to be bullied or try drugs. I believe that there is a chance that you are more likely to be bullied by not fitting in because the people may think you are being deviant and people dislike anything that is not normal.
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This video had me zone in and out a lot lol. With listening to her I knew there were different types of identities but I didn’t know how in depth they were. When she was talking about the third identity it didn’t click to me to think about the other people out there that consider them self as an identity, she even said as white America we only think of male and female. With gender identity there is gender typing which is when boys learn to be boys and same with girls. But at the same time girls learn how to get down and dirty and then there are boys that don’t like to even get dirty. When it comes to sexual identity some people are A sexual and some are bisexual but I don’t think that should be your identity. I think that this helped me understand more about identity than what I already knew. She was throwing me off for a bit but at some times she would catch me again. I did like how she went into the racial aspect of it. When talking about the ethnic identity I understood somewhat but she was confusing me when she kept saying identity. Was she talking about the ethic or just identity? Talking about multiracial and checking the boxes stood out to me, considering I am multiracial (African American and white) when I am filling something out and it says check one I either check the African American or I do check the other because I am more than just that one. I do wish they would let you mark two boxes and they might have but I have never seen them.
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I definitely think that this video suffered from being pretty boring. Lecture is usually not super entertaining and it was the longest video we have watched yet. I thought it was interesting that multi-racial identities can have different meanings depending on where you are. At home you may identify as one thing, while society pushes you to identify as another. This is another example where the power of society pushes itself into things that we consider a personal choice. Things such as who our role models are and who we grow up around can greatly affect who we identify as when it comes to ethnicity. Another thing that can affect our multiracial identity is double rejection, where both groups don’t want to claim and individual. Being forced to choose one identity when you actually identify with multiple ones can also be detrimental. Like we talked about in class, growing up in a different racial community can have a huge impact on our ethnic identity. I also found it interesting that having other on racial questionnaires can actually be a bad thing. I never really thought that it could cause problems with people mentally. When they think they don’t belong and that they are not represented they start to feel isolated from society. It is inevitable that someone is always going to be left out because people are so diverse. It is interesting to think that being individual can actually be a bad thing when people are analyzing who they are.
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I like how you said that, "at home you may identify as one thing, while society pushes you to identify as another." I think that is very accurate in today's society. It doesn't seem as if you are given the freedom to just be multi-ethnic, it seems as it you are forced to choose one ethnicity over another. -Antoinette004
DeleteI think this lecture was very long, but for the most part, to the point. I think the part that stood out to me the most was the part of race identity. I never really thought about how being an "other" would effect people. I, myself, am a white female, so I've truly, never had to really think about checking any other box then, white. It makes sense though as to why that would negatively effect people. If you grow up never being able to accurately identify yourself it would start to take a toll on you and effect how you view yourself. I like how she pointed out that multi-ethnic people are forced to choose between checking one box over another versus being able to just check bot and how that also has a negative effect on how people view themselves and how their family and outsiders view them as well. -Antoinette004
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about not knowing your identity would start to take a toll on you after a time because everyone wants to belongs to something or someone. I think you should be able to check every box that applies to that person. wonderwoman004
DeleteI felt that this video was a little boring and long. She talked about the different social construction. Race is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important. We classify a person with a certain race by the way they look or the color of their skin. Race is always a very interesting topic for me because I am a black women but by looking at me no one would guess that my great grandfather on my father's side was a white man and my great grandmother was half product of a white father and black mother also on my mother"s side my great grandfather was a Cherokee Indian. The second thing that was interesting in her video was gender roles it is so funny how as kids it is role playing, the boys get guns and toy cars and the girls get dolls and cooking sets. I never really thought about it before now but we do use these toys to teach kids their roles in life when they grow up. This cause me to remember when I was a kid and how if a boy wanted to play with a doll the father would get made and want to punish the child. Identity and all the counter parts that go with it are so complex. I never really thought about until watching this video. It cause me to look at it with new eyes. I think it is things like this that cause people to think about life. wonderwoman004
ReplyDeleteI commend the speaker! She really worked that 30 minutes out. The speaker addressed 5 identity models: racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, and class identity models. I relate most with the gender and racial identity models. I am an aggressive women and this has been the topic of many arguments in my past relationships. Society says that girls/women are soft, delicate, and submissive. I had trouble being some of these things and have been told that I want to be the "man" in my heterosexual relationship. I also have been directly influenced by the class identity model. I struggle with acceptance in this category since I have become aware of racism. I do believe I am hypersensitive to racial conflicts. One model the speaker addressed that I don't personally have experience with but I still see having a heavy influence is racial identity. America is becoming more and more diverse by the minute and as a result we have more diversification of our nations census and application processes. This model brings to mind a lyrics from well-known biracial rapper Drake in his song title "You and the 6." Drake says: "I used to get teased for being black and now I'm here and I'm not black enough, 'cause I'm not acting tough." Drake dealt with the consequences of "otherness" where social marginalization and isolation resulted in his denial by both races quoted by the speaker. -kylegoldheart004
ReplyDeleteI commend the speaker! She really worked that 30 minutes out. The speaker addressed 5 identity models: racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, and class identity models. I relate most with the gender and racial identity models. I am an aggressive women and this has been the topic of many arguments in my past relationships. Society says that girls/women are soft, delicate, and submissive. I had trouble being some of these things and have been told that I want to be the "man" in my heterosexual relationship. I also have been directly influenced by the class identity model. I struggle with acceptance in this category since I have become aware of racism. I do believe I am hypersensitive to racial conflicts. One model the speaker addressed that I don't personally have experience with but I still see having a heavy influence is racial identity. America is becoming more and more diverse by the minute and as a result we have more diversification of our nations census and application processes. This model brings to mind a lyrics from well-known biracial rapper Drake in his song title "You and the 6." Drake says: "I used to get teased for being black and now I'm here and I'm not black enough, 'cause I'm not acting tough." Drake dealt with the consequences of "otherness" where social marginalization and isolation resulted in his denial by both races quoted by the speaker. -kylegoldheart004
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