I feel as though the different people told the story differently because oh what terell said its because of our different life experiences and different life perceptions that cause us to see situations differently. I feel like he wanted to to do this to enlighten us. This experiement reminds me of the old game of telephone. But the only thing that seemed to be flitered in this version of this game was their rrace. For example the first girl who looked mixed seemed like she was too hesistant to tell the story as it was using the N word instead she refered to it as a degortory term. Then the next guy who was white seem not so keen on using the world black and white. It seemed like the white kids had a hard time saying this story because it had to deal with the racial tension between whites and blacks. So I think they didn’t want to come off as a racist. I feel like this relates to the whole awakening stages that sam discussed before. That we are not truly comfortable to use degortaory terms because of the fear of being called out and labeled as a racist. Also I felt that the white people didn’t feel the racial tension of the story because by the end you couldn’t even tell which group did what it just seemed like a bunch a guys got in a scuffle over taking the room not because someone used the n word. They seemed to try to minimize it and act like it was no big deal. Even though this was a hate crime because of someones race. I feel like dr jones was brilliant doing this I guess to show the white people how they down play these racial hate crimes and just act like it was just some other people. I don’t they understand how hard it is to be and they are cowardly to stand up like the guy in the story who was afraid to be exceled from his friends because his standing up for something he thinks is wrong. I feel like if this was me up there and I heard the story I think I would include the nword maybe not say the actual word but say n bomb because I want the people to understand the magnitude of the event and it shouldn’t be taken lightly.

I completely agree with ernso statement in saying it wrong people to using children. They are pretty much exploiting these poor little children for their own gain. Whenever I see these nutritionally deprived children with their stomachs outward because of malnutrition is supposed to evoke empathetic emotional response from the audience. And honestly it’s a little disgusting that they do this. If you really think about it are those individual children depicted as being poor and under fed really going to see any of those aid that you think your money your donating is getting. Probably not. I feel like its pure propagansa to get people to donate money. Its like people from these organizations find the poorest children and try to exploit them. I believe stems from this type of press coverage is a bad reputation for the area that is being represented in this negative light. Going back to my Haiti example, the pictures that people see are most likely the living styles that these people are dealing with right now. they try and show the crappy infrastructure and people who look like they dont have any homes. Its really disgusting. They never show the beautiful beaches or the nicer parts of the Haiti. I just don’t understand why they don’t show the real Haiti. I mean yeah they want to try to get people to help and I doubt people are willinging to help other people who seem like they don’t even need it. SO they try to find the worse off. I know children could be a sign for hope happiness and possibly a brighter future but I feel like that’s something they need to depict rather than these pathetic looking children. I really do agree with ernso that its better to make them look rexpectable and I feel like they are pretty much degrading them. I feel like they don’t show the strong people of Haiti instead of the people who are suffering. They really need to show that Haiti is built on strong people not these people who look like they cant handle whats going on with them. They need to a better image to depict Haiti and not the ruins of the people. Not these poverty ridden children. So in Haiti’s case I really agree with Ernso that they shouldn’t show them as poverty ridden children because it ruins the image of the Haitian people and making it seem like they are in need of help the commercial should make us what to lend a hand.

I think I was enlighten about my own sex. I never really thought about sex indepth and I always thought of it as a natural animalistic thing not have all these complex ideas associated it with it. I have never thought before that women never actually term to describe a mans sexual urges. I too thought there must be something wrong with me if I didn’t want to have sex with someone I loved I thought I too wasn’t in love and frigid. I never thought that my view about sex came from a male centered philosophy on sex. It actually hit me that all along ive been catering to the male needs and trying to become the male fantasy instead of vice versa. I thought this could explain why us women are always trying to look “sexy” and in that term its heels short skirts and cleavage showing outfits. This all catering to the male ideal the male goal. Men have really “brainwashed” women to become what they want. I have even realized that Laurie was right in that the getting home run or the GOAL was intercourse which is ultimate pleasure to a man yet in reality not all women are able to orgasm during intercourse and that’s not reaching our “goal” but we try to make the mans goal our own to pleasure him so we fake it. I even understand when she made the point that alcohol enables some women to have the similar goals as a man as they are more likely to have sexual intercourse of a man to reach their “goals” and a mans goal. This is so sickening if you think of it. I have realized how much inequality there really exist even through a common animalistic act. In some species it’s the women that are center and the men try to cater the women in any which way. It makes me think why I never discussed my needs whenever in the sexual act. That its more acceptable for a woman to go down on a man instead of a man going down a woman. This really makes me think about sex and how to handle it in the future. I feel as though that woman should be less bashful about not having their needs met because I feel as though it might make the woman feel like a “slut”. I feel as though we need to be more intouch of are needs and wants and discuss them with our man.

I have experienced racist comments here in Penn State and outside of Penn State. Ive experienced them both towards me and towards other people. I was in a summer program there was this one guy who is probably the definition of a southern white person and surprise surprise he was the one who made the most racist comments. He made racist comments about the black people in my program and also he made comments about Asian people as well. Whenever he made a comment about black people and Im pretty sure he used the N word as well we would shake our head at him because honestly he was probably doing that to get attention and to be a bigger person we wouldn’t respond to it. It would only fuel the power to his comments. But the thing that I found a little more uneasy was whenever he made a racist comment about Asian people the black people would be more accepting of it like they would actually join in! Yet when he was making a racist comment about black people I would be offended yet when he made one about Asian people they would just laugh in agreement so for me since I couldn’t really have support on my side I would just laugh but in my head I was think these people are racist pricks. The most racist comments I have experienced weren’t from white people but from black people. In my school black people would make the most ignorant and racist comments I have ever heard, I have even called a chink before and I would sometimes react especially when I was younger. When I was younger I would get in fights with people because of saying something like that. But the older I grew I just relized those people are just stupid. They probably aren’t exposed to too many races and they probably aren’t haven’t seen an Asian person like me so of course they would make these stupid comments. I just now shrug it of and don’t think much of it. I don’t think comments like those hurt me anymore. I think they are actually funny that they would take the time to try to hurt me and make me mad, they must be really pathetic. But sometimes you can just laugh at yourself, like the whole Asian women cant drive comment always makes me chuckle.

I think it has to do a lot with our heritage and culture and carried on generation by generation not by the media but by our family. I’m Filipino and I was born with relatively light skin. But when I got older and I spent more times outdoors my skin became darker. It got to the point where I was almost a burnt caramel color during really intense summers. When I was younger I was fine with it but the people who weren’t fine were my aunts and especially my grandmother. My mom didn’t really care because she was naturally darker than the rest of my family but aunts were lighter. They would always give me crap about how dark I got and how beautiful I was before when I was light skinned. My grandmother was the worse because she’s mostly chinese so she had very light skin so she would always tell my mom to stop letting me play outside because I began looking like a “field worker”. In the Philippines and cultures in Asia darker skin people were considered to be poorer and lower class and the rich people would be pale like my grandmother. It got to the point where when I went back to the Philippines they began buying me lighting creams, this wasn’t my mothers or fathers idea because they were happy with me dark light or whatever and I thank them for that but I guess I caved into the rest of my family that I began using lighting creams just to see and I began to like it for a while, I even got to the point where I was almost near the color I was when I was a baby. But then realized hey I actually do like my tan skin, all these girls are paying soo much money and risking skin cancer just to get to my skin tone why not embrace it! And back to the whole media ordeal, I really think it’s the not the media to blame, honestly when I was younger I was always used to the blonde blue eyed princess or the white princess there would even be a black character like in rugrats but when it came to actually picking a doll I tend to gravitiy away from the blonde blue eyed Barbie doll because they never looked like me, like most of my Barbies when I was a kid were brunette with dark eyes or with tanner skin. I remember I treasured my jasmine doll because it resembled me the most out of all my other barbies .

Honestly I never found the word be in the same category as the n word before. I used it with the same connotation as stupid and dumb. And doesn't the word the word dumb mean to a speech disorder in that a person cannot or will not speak, muteness. But yet people are more willing to call someone a dummy? I don't know I think its how the word has evolved and became to becoming an expression. Though the dumb is freely used and is used without consequence then why shouldn't retard be the same? I mean if they are going to start to eliminate the word retard then should try to eliminate words such as stupid and dumb, and I highly doubt that not one of those politicians hasn't used those words especially the guy with Down syndrome. I know this makes me bitter but I think this is a waste of politician’s time to deal with such a petty issue, I know people might feel different but I just think people need to build thicker skins. I mean hasn't people ever heard sticks and stones may break my bones but words could never hurt me. But then this does make it seem that its okay to use the n word. But the difference between that word and the “r word” is that the n word has a deep history associated with it that's filled with death and the continued oppression of people for their race I people were just killed for being the way they were but I don't think mentally retarded people have gone through a continued oppression but people in the society. Honestly I don't think ill change using the word I know people in that video were trying to be noble and saying people are ignorant when they use that word but I bet most of them have used the word at least even if they said they haven’t. because it has just become a part of our societies vocabulary. I mean sometimes I wish our world didn't have such words that degrade people but I don't want to come off pessimistic but the glass is half empty the world is and even though there might be a campaign to eliminate word I don't think most people are going to follow it and especially the younger generation that's already exposed to this word and Idont think its gonna change.

Honestly from this lecture this hasn’t changed how conscious I am when I pick my sit in class. Actually race has never been a factor of me picking a sit. I pick my sit based on if I know the person or if they are a stranger if they look friendly or not. I seriously can tell you that when I pick my sit in a lecture where I don’t know a single person I usually pick the position and don’t really care who its near if I like the position of the my sit that’s where Im gonna sit not because their Asian or black or white or Hispanic. I’m seriously have hung out with more black and Asian people in my life but I would sit by a white person and not really care if theyre white if they look friendly and approachable or even if they look decent then I would sit near them. I honestly don’t really care. In soc class I sit next to my friend whose white but I used to with her and my ex who is black so honestly you can see that no matter what they are im going to sit near them because I feel more comfortable with them. I’m Asian and honestly I can tell that a majority of my race sits with themselves and I see that with other ethnic groups in the front rows all the black people are In one row the Hispanics are near by and then the white people pretty much dominate the upper rows. And I think those are the people who need to be conscious and realize where they are sitting. But then my argument can turn against me since it could because its who they know and which sits are available and you cant blame the white people since they are the majority of the class so if you see a white person coming in late and take a sit next to white person doesn’t mean he rather sit there maybe it was just the first sit he saw. I don’t know But for me the lecture hasn’t affected me because it never applied to me to begin with. I know his trying to make us aware of latent prejudice but I have always been used to being the minority even amongst other minorities that I have no preference which race I would sit with because I had no choice to sit with another racial group different from my own.

I agree with this statement. What Sam said when you get to college its not how hard you work in the your academics but its who you know to get what you want. If I were to the statistics before I entered college I would have been very surprised and thought it was a load of bullshit, I lean towards the whole free will. When your young especially if your new immigrant to the United States its embedded in your mind work hard in your academics, focus on school to be successful. I feel its even more evident in Asian families because they really push you, one of best guy friends was never allowed to get anything lower than an A, so they add pressure to their children. But the moment I got to college I have only heard one thing "Networking". This is especially true in my major Engineering. You wouldnt think that such a technical and science base major would push for the importance on networking but they do. In my Multicultural Engineering group they tell you need to network to land a internship/co-op/ or even a job. You need to know the recruiters, I have been told that if your interested in particular company you need to know more than 2 of the recruiters. They emphasis this so much! The find that besides having a good GPA you need to be connected to other organization. I think this is starts when were in high school when they tell you that it looks better that your really involved in all these organizations, volunteered in these things and have a decent GPA instead of someone who isnt really involved at all and has over 4.0 GPA. This then matures when we go to college where " its who you know" especially in social events or to get something you want you need to be able to have good networking skills makes me think thats why its required for everyone to take CAS 100 to develop or communication skills so we can be better at networking. I also find that inequality is apparent in the whole networking finding people who are upper on the social class have a better chances of Networking. For example, my roommate father works for one of the biggest Oil company in her country and if she wanted to enter into the oil industry it would be way easier for her to just slip into there rather than someone who has no former connection to the industry and have to work from the ground up to make it in the industry. There is a lot of inequalities especially in success.

After watching this video question I immediately went to YouTube to go listen to the song to see what he was talking about. And this song fits perfectly with what were talking about in Soc. Especially dealing with the inequality in the world especially here in the United States. “All the silence is worse than all the violence” this is a powerful statement that Lupe suggest. And I agree with his statement because there is so much inequality that is not spoken publicly in the united states. In the song “words I never said” there is much of a social and political commentary in the song. Lupe talks about all the corruption that observes in the world. He even suggest that we are all drones and being brain washed by stupid shows on TV like Jersey Shore and its crazy when you think that those people who are in the show get paid to get drunk, party, and have petty drama while they have budget cuts in our public school systems. He talks about all the injustice in the world. And this relates to topics discussed. I remember in my county which was predominantly a black school but there was one school in my county that had more funding than any of the other schools. The school that had more funding just so happen to have a larger white student population than black student population and the thing that was unfair was that the school really didn't need that much funding because they had a better school facility than ours. Our school literally had water damage and I remember other neighboring schools had old textbooks, old desk, crappy chalkboards and classrooms and you think why is a school that already has all these nice things, great classrooms new text books, brand new gyms would need more funding than the schools that look like they're about to fall over. This is similar to the video Sam showed us from the Oprah show where they took inner city schools and suburban schools, they should how different they were and they didn't know the differences were that extreme, even their curriculum was different the inner city schools which is something ive realized when I went to college a lot of people who thought they were prepared get here and its a harsh reality that they find out that theyre not as prepared as they thought they were. This just shows the inequality.

I think it has to deal with humans and their obsession with generalization. We constantly try to put people in categories so we could try understand them so their not foreign to us. For example when you see an asian person acting like anything other than asian we try to say oh he/she is acting black or acting white so that we can have them "figured" out instead of going against the norm of being asian or the sterotype we have of asians. I'm Asian and I have been called white by black people, asians, black by white and hispanics, and asian by my asian friends. But honestly the reason I have been called those names is because I pick up little things from the current group of people im currently hanging out with. In middle school I hung out with a lot of white people and was able to develop the "valley" girl accent then I moved to a county which was predominently black so then the black people were calling white because of my accent. Then when I hung out with a bunch a of black people so when I went to high school my asian friends began calling me black and then when I hung out with my asian friends my white and black friends called me asian. And now i hang with a lot of hispanics and picking up qualities of hispanic people. And I dont think that limits to just asians but to hispanics , whites, and black. I have been friends with some black people who are more asian than me!! I see that they go to Anime conventions and love japanese food, I swear they even speak better japanese food than I do! They even are more ahead of me when it comes to Kpop or Korean entertainment. I have Filipino friends who act more black than most black people. It all has to deal with the enivorment were rasied in and our interest.These can also deal with which race you feel more accepted and comfortable with especially with mix people who tend to gravitate to one race than the other.