For this week’s on-line task in 300 phrases or extra: Discover your reactions to one of many readings based mostly in your vital considering and experiences. Had been there key claims/arguments/concepts that confused you, resonated with you, or made you surprise? If that’s the case, state these key claims. In case you are responding to the poem, be very clear and specific as to what the poem is about and what it’s doing? Then, reply to at the least one classmate’s put up in 200 phrases or extra by 5 pm on Tuesday.
Put up by 5pm Tuesday, Mar 1st. In the event you put up your studying reflection after the deadline it can make it troublesome to your colleagues to learn and remark earlier than our Wednesday class and your put up will probably be considerably marked down. You will have to finish this dialogue put up requirement to obtain your Monday attendance factors.
Necessary Word: Please be conscious at all times of your engagement with everybody in our class. Think about the social significance of identities (class, gender, race, and many others.) and the methods through which such variations could also be affecting the methods through which you (and others) are collaborating.
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I learn “Stand Up” by Cathy Park Hong, and I actually need to deal with the half the place she talks concerning the anti blackness, colorism and homophobia throughout the Asian Group and the way being queer or darkish skinned will make you regarded down upon within the Asian neighborhood. When Hong talks about how the Asian neighborhood have been inflicting the identical kind of hate and racism in direction of black or brown folks, and even folks of their very own type with darker pores and skin, it jogged my memory of the Colorism that we’ve got inside my very own ethnicity (the Filipino Group).This is a matter I’ve personally skilled inside my family and it comes to point out that the requirements that the Asian Group have positioned amongst themselves has been set so excessive, that it’s typically fairly infuriating. They’re prepared to carry down their very own type if they don’t match that customary. I’m a Filipino and I do know numerous ladies again within the Philippines take iv glutathione for pores and skin whitening as a result of the sweetness customary over there’s to have actually pale pores and skin. Some individuals are simply naturally pale however numerous Filipinos have brown pores and skin, and numerous them are seen as poor or not lovely for having darker pores and skin. That magnificence customary has additionally been dangerous in direction of so many individuals everywhere in the world by belittling so a lot of their OWN folks simply due to the colour of their pores and skin. Colorism has affected the Philippines in so some ways and it began when Spain colonized the Philippines, viewing white Europeans as “better’, and all of that also impacts Filipino communities within the Philippines, and even within the US, at present. This idea has made many individuals to really feel ashamed of their pure brown colour, and buy merchandise that can whiten their complexion.
