Thursday, October 20, 2011
Hidden Assumptions
For the skin tone test, I was surprised that I got a a moderate preference to light skin than to dark skin because I honestly don't think it matters. I'm friends with both kinds of people. It kind of made me angry because I don't feel that I have a preference, it was just slow hands. For the second test, which gender goes with science or liberal arts, I felt that the strong association made more sense to me because in the past, I've had more male teachers for sciences, and more female teachers for liberal arts. I feel like the results of both tests should be taken with a grain of salt because past experiences influence some answers and not for others. An example of "good" people in the United States are Americans or white people, and an example of "bad" people are Mexicans or non-white people. I think that these examples are stereotypes because not everyone feels that way, and this country is based on the fact that everyone should be treated equally. In my opinion, a generalization is a stereotype because you're conforming whatever you're generalizing into one group.
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