Describe at least one
example of a microaggression which you detected this week or remember from
another time. In what context did the microaggression happen? What did you
think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself
as the target of a microaggression?
One example of microaggression
that I remember from another time was when my friend from medical school was
stopped at the airport in security a few months back. It was a bunch of us that
was leaving to go home for break. I can remember my friend being behind all of
us and we all went through security with no problem. We all were beginning to walk and we noticed
that Roza was nowhere in sight. So we
stopped and waited for her for about a minute or town and then we saw her
walking up towards us. We asked her what happened and she said that she was
stopped and was being checked for gun powder residue on her. She wasn’t even
upset because she said that she was use to this happening to her when she goes
to the airport. She is an Ethiopian and she wears a scarf over her head and to
me this was ridiculous. She is always being racially profiled as being a
terrorist when she goes through security at airports.
In what ways did your
observation experiences this week affect your perception of the effects of
discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people
My observation experiences
this week affect my perception of the effects of stereotypes and discrimination
on people makes me feel very disgusted when I hear and see these things happen
to people. Sometimes I wish that everybody in the world could just wake up and
see that we all are equal. I also wish that people could see that this behavior
is really unacceptable and not only that they should see that the same thing
that are doing to these people (the ones that are prejudice, discriminating
against people and stereotyping people), the same thing is going to happen to
them.
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