Chapter #3 Blog Post

1. What I liked most about the video was that the third graders knew about discrimination but all they knew was not to like Blacks or Native Americans. The teacher taught the children this lesson and truly showed them what discrimination really felt like. Through the teachers lesson I feel like the children had a better understanding of what it feel like to be less than and may treat others the way they would want to be treated.

2, Some things I did not like about the video was that such young and innocent children are discriminating. When the teacher asked about National Brotherhood month the children had all good things to say about how you treat your brother. What mainly upset me was when the teacher asked "who do you not treat as your brother" the children said Blacks or Native Americans. Being so young the only reason they have any reason to not like Blacks or Indians is because their parents taught them not to. Also, something else I did not like about the video was that the blue eyed children turned so quickly and became so nasty to the brown eyed children. Even the ones that they were friends with.

3. I was very surprised at how the children with blue eyes treated the children with brown eyes. The kids when from such innocent, kind and respectful students to vicious, rude and nasty. Right after the teacher told the class that blue eyed kids were smarter than brown eyed students. She started stating all of the restrictions of the brown eyed students and with in fifteen minutes the class was divided. During recess there was even a fight between two boys, one blue eyed and one brown eyed. The fight started because the brown eyed student was being picked on by a blue eyed student just because of his eye color. I could not believe how fast the class turned on each other just because of something the teacher said.

4. There is one scene in particular that I will definitely remember a month from now. The scene when the teacher was telling the class that blue eyed people are smarter. The teacher was also saying that blue eyed students get five more minutes of recess, the brown eyed kids could not drink from the water fountain and could not get seconds at lunch time. As the teacher was saying all this stuff the camera was showing the reaction of one young girl. Her facial expressions were so upsetting she as if she could not believe this was happening she even started tearing up.

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Diversity Chapter #1

1. To me, being an American means freedom, opportunity and unity but to others, being an American  applies solely to those who live in the United States. Also, people consider Americans to be people who live in North, Central or South America. Others feel that the word American is a racial term meaning white. Reigning Miss. America 2014, Nina Davuluri is like no other before she is Indian- American. In her interview she stated that "i'm on a mission. Miss America has always been the girl next door. But Miss. America is evolving and she is not going to look the same anymore." I agree with her one hundred percent, yes a lot of Americans are white but there are so many different races that make up America and I think she is a perfect example of an American.

2. From visiting the website zipskinny.com I compared my zip code with 21237. I observed that my zip code and zip code 21237 had many similarities in education, marital status and occupation. The categories that had significant differences were household income, poverty and race. In Bel Air the average income is $65,669 and in 21237 it is $47,581. The amount of people that are below poverty line in Bel Air is 1.6% and in 21237 it is 4.7%. In both zip codes the majority of their inhabitants are white. But, in zip code 21237 there are more blacks than whites.

3. The first U.S. census was taken in 1790 since then things have significantly changed and in 2050 they will change even more. Whites made us 90% of the U.S. population in 1940, Census estimates in 2050 the percentage of whites who are not hispanic will shrink noticeably to just under 50%. In the 2010 U.S. census three precent identified themselves as members of more than one race. Many demographers expect this figure to increase dramatically by 2050 because of the amount of interracial couples. Also, employment projections for 2050 show that women will make up half of the labor force. The next upcoming generations will become extremely diverse because of the dramatic upsurge in the number of grade school students who are members of racial or ethnic minorities. Lastly, census predictions point to a much "grayer" population by 2050 because people are healthier, living loner and retiring at a later age. To me, the world is changing I compare the way i live compared to my grandparents and everything is different and it is only going to change more between  people living longer, advanced technology and interracial couples.



Richard D. Bucher [2014]. Diversity Consciousness. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.

Lakshmi Gandhi [Sept.16, 2013]. "10 Things you Need to Know About Miss America Nina Davuluri." Aerogram.com.