Hello once again everyone. Nice weather we are having today. I enjoyed this weeks class on developing cultural sensitivity. I would like to congratulate Cory and Jenna on the great job they did getting the class involved in the activity. I thought the activity did a great job showing us how society along with we ourselves unconciously stereotype and label people without knowing how we affect certain people. I figured out for myself anyway that I do it a lot more than I know. What I learned Tuesday night in class will make me think about how I can become a better person by just getting out there and meeting people with differnt backgrounds and cultures that don't relate as well to mine. If a person can begin to familiarize themselves with the general characteristics of different diversities and cultures then they can more successful establish and maintian relationships with different people.
The dimensions for me that I chose as being important was being country raised growing up on a farm. I believe this is important because it is what shaped me to become the person that I am today. It also showed me that in order to get what I want and who I want to become as a person it takes hard work and a persistant effort as well. The dimensions you choose as well as the ones other's choose affect how they judge people due to the different backgrounds and cultures that they are grown up on. The one dimension that I shared the most with the group was being farm raised. I saw a lot of similarities with this and not so much differences. We all grew up with a farm background and a good number of the group explained how this has shaped the way we are today. One good example of stereotyping that I believe Amy brought up was a student in her class who was hispanic, yet lived in Iowa his whole life and could speak perfect English, but still many labeled him as unable to speak English. This goes to show that even people that have grown up in America all their lives still get stereotyped by their race or the color of their skin.
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Great post Josh. I completely agree that you need to familiarize yourself with different cultures or simply with a different type of person. You never know where you're going to end up with a job, and who you're going to be working with.
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