en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2426512 Comments by USCE05 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/19/how-has-your-opinion-changed-on-illegal-immigration-119-blog/#IDComment145158486 My views on immigration have defiantly changed a little after Sams lecture. I agree with Sam in that illegal immigration is a problem that will not be solved any time soon and even when we think we solved it something new will come up and we will be back to square one. There is a lot of bad things that come over the border including drugs and guns and I think that when people think about the Mexican border they only think about the illegal immigrants that are coming over for work but not few of them that come over with tons and tons of drugs to sell in the US. The first priority of the border patrol should be to stop the people who are trying to smuggle drugs and guns across the border. The border is so big that like Sam said it is impossible to stop illegal immigration across the whole border. In class we primarily spoke about our border the Mexico but we also have a big water border in the southeast where many illegal immigrants come from the Caribbean. Illegal immigrants are very important for the growth and prosperity of the United States. Americans have this idea that even if they have no job they should not be doing the menial jobs in society and Sam spoke about a survey when they asked out of work people if they wanted to do a job and they said that the job was meant for immigrants. American businesses need illegal immigrants or the economy could fall apart from the bottom up. Immigrants just want to be able to have a normal family and earn an honest living. Coming to American is dream that some of these people have since the time they are kids. I think that no matter what we do there will always be illegal immigrants because the US will never allow an unlimited amount of immigrants legally into the country. Sam suggested that when the Europeans came the United States they were illegal immigrants. I think that maybe more then 400 years ago when Europeans first came here you could have said this and maybe if there were more of a global presence back then someone would have done something. But has been more then four centuries since Europeans first came here and the US has had an established government here for more the two centuries. I think that it would be a little late to start saying that now we are all illegal immigrants and the Native Americans are the only legal citizens of this land. The illegal immigration problem will never end and no matter what we do in the future people will always try and come to the land of opportunity. Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:42:30 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/19/how-has-your-opinion-changed-on-illegal-immigration-119-blog/#IDComment145158486 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/12/do-you-think-you-would-actively-try-to-not-benefit-from-nepotism-if-the-situation-presented-itself-119-blog/#IDComment143244384 I would never turn down a chance to take a job through nepotism because in the world we live in today you need to use every option you have to get ahead in life and do what is best for you. To me nepotism is only using connections that you make throughout your life. It is impossible for a company to look at everyone in the world who might be acceptable for a job, so having an “IN” like nepotism is just a way to help you get looked at by a company. I like to think that the fact that I go to Penn State isn’t overlooked by people and nepotism in something that is in addition to my degree from Penn State. This summer I was having a hard time getting an internship so I asked my Uncle if he could look into an internship at the insurance company he works for. He put my resume in and I eventually got the internship, this will be a huge help in getting me experience in the business world. When I start working I think that nepotism can not help me out, if I do a bad job nepotism wont save my job, only the work that I do will be able to prove that I did deserve the job. Life is all about who you know, at Penn State you hear a lot about why we are such a great school, and that big reason is our alumni base is so huge. Using alumni to get a job is just like nepotism and since this is one of the main things that the university advertises is cant be all that bad. It is self-deprecating to have someone offer you a job because they are your family and turn it down. To me that is like if someone offered you a big sum of money but you don’t take it because that person is you father or uncle or any other family member. Sam says that nepotism is just like affirmative action and when you use nepotism to get a job someone more experienced then you are does not have access to that same job. I don’t know how I feel about what Sam said. I personally think that affirmative action is a lot different then nepotism. Affirmative action is usually decided by the color of a person’s skin or something that is usually visual. Nepotism runs much deeper because it is family and nothing is thicker then blood. I think that even though both nepotism and affirmative action are limiting access for other people in the end I think the world is balanced and whose to say someone didn’t take a job “meant” for you at some point in your life. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:08:33 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/12/do-you-think-you-would-actively-try-to-not-benefit-from-nepotism-if-the-situation-presented-itself-119-blog/#IDComment143244384 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/05/after-this-class-do-you-still-blame-terrorism-119-blog/#IDComment141057133 The class on terrorism defiantly changed how I look at terrorism and how I look back at the wars that the United States has been in through out the past 20 years. One thing I learned is that the people that live in the Middle East are just like us, most of the population is in the middle and just want to live a happy life but there are some radicals that give everyone else a bad reputation. I think that one of the problems with the war on terror is that we are not fighting a country or an army but we r fighting a loose group of insurgents, and going into countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and taking over is not the answer. I can easily see why the people in the Middle East countries like Iraq and Afghanistan do not like us. We are moving into their countries taking over and then trying to get rid of these insurgents. The people of these countries resent the fact that we come and just take over while they live in poverty and a war is being fought on their land. I agree with the fact the most of the reason we got to war these days is over money but I don’t think that this is the whole reason. I think another reason that we go to war is for humanitarian reasons, weather the people of that country wants the help or not. People in the United States only see one side of the story, we see 9/11 and terrorists who bomb innocent civilians and all we want is for that to end and the only way we see that happening is invading other countries. Americans don’t see a lot of what happens when the American military finally gets into a country and starts fighting. We don’t see all the civilian deaths. I was surprised that the American military thought is ok for 29 civilians to die before a mission was thought to be too costly. Most Americans don’t know this fact. I am not a pacifist and I do think war is necessary and people do die in war but I also think that there should ne be any formula or number that is set to decide how many people can be killed before a mission is over. Terror is also something that is not just Middle Eastern but there are also American terrorists. All these people put fear into the public but the Middle Eastern terrorists are the ones who get the bad name and who we want to go after. One example is the man who attacked the Arizona senator if he was a Muslim or Arab I bed he would be called a terrorist but since he is white everyone just called him crazy. Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:27:10 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/04/05/after-this-class-do-you-still-blame-terrorism-119-blog/#IDComment141057133 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/29/do-you-ever-feel-uncomfortable-around-two-or-more-people-speaking-another-language-119-blog/#IDComment139212009 I usually don’t feel that uncomfortable when people are speaking a different language around me. I live in a suburb of New York City and worked there for a few summers. In NYC people speak so many different languages you can walk around a corner and you can her 4 or 5 different languages being spoken at the same time. IN every different section of the city a different language is usually the main language that is being spoke. Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and many more languages can be heard just by walking a couple blocks uptown or downtown. When people are speaking a different language I don’t feel uncomfortable, I feel more wonder in what they are talking about. I often see students from countries in Asia speaking in their mother tongue and wonder what they could be talking about. Are they talking about work or just bullshitting with their friends? I think that part of the reason that I don’t feel uncomfortable with people speaking different languages is that no matter what English is the language that most people speak. I know that no matter what language they are speaking there is a very good chance that they speak English and if I need to communicate with them they will speak English just like me. I recently traveled abroad to Italy and obviously English is not their first language. There were some situations where I was in a place and you realize that not everyone speaks English and I started to feel a little uncomfortable. I think that the thing that makes people uncomfortable when people are speaking a different language in front of them is the fact that they think the people are talking about them. This comes back to the fact that most people are insecure with themselves and always think that people are talking about them. Sometimes I wonder what people who speak different languages think when they come to America. I see plenty of people around campus who defiantly don’t speak English as their first language. I think to myself what do these people think everyday. Are they uncomfortable when they do everyday things like order food or maybe don’t even understand a word that a professor says in class that day? Spanish is the language that I feel most comfortable with people speaking around me. I have taken enough Spanish in high school and college to be able to understand a lot of what people are saying. I think that they way to feel more comfortable with people speaking different languages around you is to become more secure with yourself. Also people need to become more “multicultural” and understand that different languages don’t represent threats or mean that people are speaking about you. Fri, 1 Apr 2011 22:29:50 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/29/do-you-ever-feel-uncomfortable-around-two-or-more-people-speaking-another-language-119-blog/#IDComment139212009 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/22/what-factors-in-your-race-make-it-difficult-to-date-outside-your-race-119-blog/#IDComment137571898 There are many things that make it difficult to date outside our race with race actually only being one of the factors. Race, religion, and community all affect how people date and why it can be difficult to date outside of your race. One thing that can affect dating across race lines are the two peoples parents. Some old school parents would not approve of the son or daughter dating across race lines and could react badly to this. Children want their parents to be happy and sometimes it might bring to much between a family. People are afraid of what other people will think of them if they date out of their race. People don’t like to be different and unfortunately dating outside out your race is being different. One of the worst things that society can do is outcast people, when people walk down the street they don’t want to be stared at just because they are holding hand with someone from another race then theirs. Another obstacle to interracial dating is that in a lot of cases people from different races don’t hang out together. It can be very hard for people of different races to even meet and get to know each other enough to want to start to date. In most cases races are so separated in everything that they do that society as a whole does not think that it is acceptable for people of different races to be dating. Religion is another thing that can be a big factor when people want to date across a racial or ethnic divide. In some cases religion can be even more of a divide then race and is something that people are very emotional about. If you are trying to date someone who is not the same religion as you it is can make some parents and grandparents very angry that the family traditions may not continue to the next generation. The generational divide is the biggest thing that I think stops people from entering into interracial relationships. In the world we live in today people care too much about what other people think about them. In close religious communities sometimes dating someone from another race is enough for that person to be shunned from a community that they have probably grown up in and don’t want to have to leave. Personally I would like to think that my parents would not have a problem with me dating someone of a different race but I think my parents would like me to date someone who is the same religion as me. To me this is not as bad as race because religion is some thing that can be changed rather then race which is something that you are not matter what you do. Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:12:35 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/22/what-factors-in-your-race-make-it-difficult-to-date-outside-your-race-119-blog/#IDComment137571898 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/18/what-do-you-think-of-the-diversity-at-penn-state-119-blog/#IDComment135952301 I think that Penn State is a very diverse place compared to the places that most white people including me are from. I am from a town that is probably 98% white and even though most of my school was white I thought that I was exposed to plenty of diversity in the towns around NYC and me. The town where I am from didn’t have many different races if you weren’t white you were Black; there were not really any others like Indians, or Arabs. When I came to Penn State there were so many more races in one concentrated area. And the fact that we are all in a university setting means that more people are willing to learn about each other and really learn about culture and diversity. Being exposed to diversity in college is very important for accepting people of different races later in life. There are defiantly other schools that are more diverse then Penn State but in my opinion Penn State is probably one of the universities that has the most diverse population. But this is my opinion and I think that the school along with all the clubs does a very good job of promoting diversity around campus and to the public. I think that one reason that Penn State is very diverse is because of the city of Philadelphia, Philly is a very diverse city and since Penn State is a state school we get a lot more of the city population the a more expensive private school might. Being that Penn State is 78% white people may think that is not that diverse, but I wonder what the diversity rates of other universities in the Big Ten are. Being in soc 119 also made me much more aware of diversity in general. There is a club or two or even a fraternity for almost every race that is represented on campus. It seems like every other class we have some one is doing a commercial where they are talking about how their club (any race) is doing some sort of activity to promote diversity. This gives the students in soc 119 the impression that there is more diversity around campus then there really is. I wonder how Penn State could become any more diverse. I wonder how getting people from many more different backgrounds would affect the school. Would it be good or bad? I think that more diversity wont do much for the students at Penn State, what the students need are more programs that help to bring different races together over common causes. I think that this could be one way to try and end racism and bring race relations into the 21st century. Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:29:02 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/18/what-do-you-think-of-the-diversity-at-penn-state-119-blog/#IDComment135952301 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/02/how-can-we-save-our-scarce-resources-119-blog/#IDComment132195520 With the exploding population I think most people agree that resources are going to start to get more and more scarce. As each day goes by we are going to need more and more resources to keep our population fed, housed, and moving around. One of the big problems is that living in a wealthy country we have only now started to realize that we are running out of resources and need to do something about it. Developing countries know that resources are scarce but do not have the money to do anything about it and since it doesn’t affect us we don’t want to spend the money to do anything about it until its too late. People have to start looking into alternative ways to feed and house people and we have also started to look into alternative energy, which has become a huge topic in recent years. I think one problem is that poor families in Africa are having more and more kids in the hopes that the more kids they have the better chance they have of their kids doing well and being able to take care of them, and that even if some children die from poor nutrition they will still have many children. In reality most of these kids never make it far and are often stuck in the same impoverished life style their parents are in. Most people in these poor villages do not want to be poor; they just have no way of getting out of the cycle of poverty. I wonder if one day it will be necessary for the all the countries in the world to control how many children a person can have like china does today. Even though I believe that it is a persons right to have as many children as they want, one day there will have to be some limits whether its based on your wealth or some other qualification, but the world can not sustain the population growth. One thing I have heard about to help these people is to give them micro loans to help them start small businesses that they can support themselves with. There are many ways that the United States and other major countries like China and European countries can help fight the problem of scarce resources. People in developed countries like the US tend to believe that they worked for what they got and free will is what governs people’s future. These countries not only need to try and give excess resources that they have but also use their knowledge and try and develop new ways of doing things so when some of these resources run out (which they will do one day) we have other things to fall back on. Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:59:50 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/03/02/how-can-we-save-our-scarce-resources-119-blog/#IDComment132195520 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/is-it-selfish-for-people-in-poverty-to-have-more-kids-because-of-their-lower-income-119-blog/#IDComment130682416 I think that having kids in poverty depends if the parents know how to be responsible. All people should be allowed to have children if they want to be if you in poverty you should know yourself that it is not fair to the child to be brought up with almost nothing. I think in the case of Tammy growing up with 22 brothers and sisters caused her to be a little selfish. Maybe she was thinking that I grew up this way and there are no reasons that I cant have as many kids as I want and they can grow up the way I did. I am sure after her first kid she realized that it money was very tight and raising a kid is very expensive. I don’t think that she should have had more children after her first one. And another thing is we didn’t see a father in the picture for these kids. Maybe if they had another source of income they wouldn’t be in such a bad situation and it could be easier to bring up 4 kids. A lot of these parents think the more kids they have the more people they will have in the household to work and bring in money for the family. This may have been true 70 or 80 years ago but in these modern times children go to school and at least for the first 14 or so years of their life don’t work and don’t bring in any money. Not all poor families should be blamed for having too many kids a lot of the time they are just not well educated in sex education and do not know how to practice birth control. Sometimes they might not be even able to afford condoms in order to not have any more kids. It is a vicious cycle of people that are impoverished not having the money to afford birth control then having more children and getting more in debt and so on and so forth. There is a movie called Idiocracy in the beginning of the movie it shows a scene of smart upper class people planning to have their kids while the white poor people are not thinking about having kids and just doing it. At the end of the scene the upper class people still have not had their kids because of other reason and the white poor people have already have multiple kids and their kids have already had kids and so forth. I think that this movie is somewhat true it is a cycle that can only be broken by education and trying to teach people in poor areas about birth control and the effects of having kids. Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:56:42 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/24/is-it-selfish-for-people-in-poverty-to-have-more-kids-because-of-their-lower-income-119-blog/#IDComment130682416 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/16/do-arrests-of-different-races-occur-more-due-to-racism-or-more-police-in-urban-areas-119-blog/#IDComment128898751 I think that while some police may be racist, I don’t think that the system is racist and there are other reasons why Blacks and Hispanics get arrested more then White people do. I think that urban areas just provide more opportunity for people of any race to get in trouble with the law and get arrested. There are physically more people in an urban area so there needs to be more police in the area in order to keep control of more people. But I think that there are way more reasons why more blacks are arrested the whites and how living in an urban area factors into this. One thing is that drug crime tends to be more centralized in urban areas. Black and Hispanic people also tend to live in more urban areas. Along with the higher police presence there is a better chance that all three of these factors will meet and lead to an arrest. I think that it is just easier for police to find and catch drug users and most of these drug users happen to be black and Hispanic. People want to do things the easy way and police are no different. They don’t have to want to work hard to get arrests and when you can walk into an urban area and practically immediately see someone dealing drugs rather then having to patrol a rural area for maybe days and not get any arrests. People in urban areas are more likely to be out on the streets committing crime then people in rural areas. I think one reason this is the case is because the fact the in urban areas everything is close and it is much easier for people to get to places and the more people are together the better chance they will engage in criminal activity. The fact that the people that live in the urban areas tend to be black and Hispanic is something that leads to them getting arrested more. I think that if white people lived in these neighborhoods their arrest rate would also go up. I also think that they way drugs make their way into urban areas has a huge impact on how police fight crime. Gangs control the drugs in urban areas and gangs also bring more violence, which is the main thing that police are here to fight. In suburban and rural areas there are ways less gangs and it is more single people who are distributing drugs and they are way less prone to violence. Police have the luxury in these areas to not have to respond to violent calls that often include drugs which they are more likely to do in urban areas. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:19:51 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/16/do-arrests-of-different-races-occur-more-due-to-racism-or-more-police-in-urban-areas-119-blog/#IDComment128898751 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/08/how-have-the-choices-youve-made-and-determinism-affected-your-life-119-blog/#IDComment127231110 I can clearly see how a balance of determinism and free will have had a huge impact on my life and led me to where I am today. Both my parents went to college and I grew up in a town where probably 95% of kids graduate from high school and then go off to college. I was always encouraged to get good grades so I could get into a good college then go on to get a good job. On the determinism side of the equation I think that I am very lucky. All my grandparents were educated which I think is a rarity for their generation and both my parents do better financially then their parents did. I think that it’s the American dream for each generation to do better then the last. The money that my family makes allows me to live in an area with great public schools and therefore I had good teachers who pushed me to get good grades throughout my high school career. I think that going to college was the only thing that was ever expected for me when I got out of college. All of my close friends go to college and where I am from that is just the way it is. But even though determinism has played a huge part in my life I think that my free will and hard work has gotten me into Penn State. I have friends that go to colleges from the top schools to the ones on the bottom. If I hadn’t worked hard throughout my high school career there would have been no way that I would have been able to get into Penn State. I know personally that I could have done much better in school if I applied myself more to work then hanging out with my friends during the week and having fun rather then studying. When I got to Penn State I realized that I needed to keep my grades up for my own personal satisfaction rather then for my parents. I realized that even though grades don’t matter as much as people think they are still very important to me. The past few classes have made me think about where I come from and what that meant to me from the time I was born till now. I would like to think that I would have been able to get to Penn State with out my parents but now I am not sure this would be possible. I am lucky that I am able to pay for college and not have to take out tons of loans. The main thing I learned from the last few days of class is you have to talk to people to know about them and you really cant read a book by its cover. Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:57:28 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/08/how-have-the-choices-youve-made-and-determinism-affected-your-life-119-blog/#IDComment127231110 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/01/do-you-describe-yourself-differently-in-other-countries/#IDComment126010008 I defiantly describe myself differently depending on where I am in the world. If I am in a foreign country I describe myself as an American but usually do not go much further then that unless the person know about the United States. But there are two very different but similar questions, “Where are you from?” and “What are you?” Depending on context and location these questions can mean the same thing or something very different. If you are out of the country and some one asks you either one of these questions I think that they mean pretty much the same thing. They are asking where you live. But if you are in the United States and someone asks you “What are you?” I would think that they are asking about heritage. Even though I am part Polish and part Belgian I usually don’t identify as either and I think I would even maybe answer the question with religion and say that I was Jewish. If I were asked the question “Where are you from?” I would answer where I live. I would answer New York or Long Island. But answering both of these questions has a lot to do with your very specific location even in the US or even with in the Penn State community. If I was with people from the area I live in I can be more specific to where I live. If I am in a class setting I usually answer the question “where are you from?” saying that I am from Long Island because most people know where that is but Long Island is a big place but I cant really get more specific because most people from Pennsylvania don’t know much about the Long Island area. If I were traveling to a different university I would answer the question very differently. If some one asked me where I was from I might tell them that I am from Penn State and them maybe in further conversation tall them I am from New York or long island or more specific depending on where they were from. People identify more with their culture then where they are from and no matter how the question is posed people are going to answer the question very differently. People can identify differently even if they are from the same block from the same town living there for their entire lives. I usually will answer the question where are you form by saying long island but I know people form my town that think maybe people look at them differently when they say they are form long island so they answer the same question by saying they are form NY. Context and personal preference are the two things that determine how people answer these very different but similar questions. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 22:55:36 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/02/01/do-you-describe-yourself-differently-in-other-countries/#IDComment126010008 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/why-do-we-associate-with-people-of-the-same-race-and-ethnicity-as-ourselves-119-blog/#IDComment124366826 People of the same ethnicity and race tend to hang out with each other because of the comfort they get from being with people they know. Especially international students who often feel out of place, maybe hanging out with people the same ethnicity of them makes them feel like they are home. I am from a town where most of the population is Jewish and being Jewish my self I felt very comfortable. Its not that the catholic kids felt out of place or we didn’t hang out with them but there are defiantly some times where they may have felt a little out of place. When I came to school here I joined a Jewish fraternity. I know a lot of people who join a fraternity or sorority because it makes them feel welcome in a place that can be very over whelming. Where you grow up has everything to do with whom you hang out with later in life. If you go to a high school with a lot of black people or live in an area that is very diverse you are more likely to hang out with blacks or Hispanics. But no matter where you come from it is just a fact that people like to hang out with people that are just like themselves. Being a similar ethnicity to people also makes it easier to discuss issues and problems that you may have that are common to you and your race and ethnicity. I think that a lot of the time white people get blamed for leaving other races out but I think that a lot of the time it is that other race that maybe because of white people or because of their own wishing feel that need to be with their own people and want to keep their own traditions. To me the most obvious race group that only hangs out with their own race at Penn State is Asians. I always see Asian students hanging out together and I think one reason they stand out more then anyone else is language. Because their language is so different it makes them stand out even more. I think I have even seen newspaper articles or blogs that have asked the question “Why is it so hard for the Asian students to make friends with non-Asian students?” I think that we are the generation that is going more global and becoming more tolerant of all the other races. The white culture is no longer the most dominant in the world. I think that in near future people will be much more comfortable with one another and it will be much easier for people from different races to become friends. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:05:38 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/26/why-do-we-associate-with-people-of-the-same-race-and-ethnicity-as-ourselves-119-blog/#IDComment124366826 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/01/18/what-do-you-think-blog-2/#IDComment122824462 This exercise was the most interesting race exercise that I have seen in a classroom. It is pretty obvious that people are still affected by race. You could feel the tension in the class when the two people were separating the students in the front by what they thought were there race. This exercise goes to show you that you cant tell a book by its cover and people might look one way but come from a totally different background. I applaud the people who were brave enough to stand up in front of 700 peers and separate their fellow students by what were basically the stereotypes that they saw. I think that this exercise would not have been possible in any other class. Professor Richards is so cool about race and ethnicity that it rubs off on the rest of the class. The first few exercises that we have done in class have defiantly helped to break the ice and I think that most people in the class will be very comfortable to talk about race for the rest of the semester. It was nice to see that most people in the class were not afraid or ashamed of their background no matter what it was. In an age where stereotyping is so prevalent and there is so much hate I think our generation will be the one that can help to stop the hate and stereotyping between cultures. I think that it was a great idea to choose the two “smartest” people in the class to try and separate the students in the front of the room. It plays on another stereotype that if you have a 4.0gpa you can solve any problem. Choosing these two people just helped to reinforce that you really cant tell the background of people no matter how smart you are. Personally I am from polish and Belgian descent but it was my great grand parents who came over to this country. When someone asks me what race I am or what my background is I usually just say I am white. People use the terms white, black, Asian and etc . to broadly to describe people. It is just easier to refer to someone as white instead of putting the effort in to learn about him or her. I wonder how we could try and fix this about the world. I always wonder if you go to a place where the majority of the people have darker skin and the minority is of lighter skin how they refer to each other. I am really happy I took this class, I think it will open my eyes to how other people feel about race and maybe what small part I can play in trying to further race relations. 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