During the PowerPoint and live demonstration of the "WHAT DID YOU SEE" activity what did you learn about yourself and about others in relation to their preconceived notions about Race and Ethnicity? The people who participated in Part II of the activity are to be commended, they performed a task that was NOT easy. But, do you think you would have done a better job of figuring out names and dominant ethnicity? Explain...
05 November 2010
What did you see Parts I & II...
During the PowerPoint and live demonstration of the "WHAT DID YOU SEE" activity what did you learn about yourself and about others in relation to their preconceived notions about Race and Ethnicity? The people who participated in Part II of the activity are to be commended, they performed a task that was NOT easy. But, do you think you would have done a better job of figuring out names and dominant ethnicity? Explain...
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I learned that people can be from various ethnicities but they do not have to look it. There can be many ethnicities in a person’s background and it is hard to find them all by just looking at a person. I think both Brendon and Jenna did a good job finding out the ethnicity of most people in the class. Most people’s ethnicities can be identified by their last name. This is the way that they used. But they couldn’t figure out a few people’s ethnicities even with their last name. I understand that it was not easy but I don’t think I would have done any better. I did not even know the last names of a few people. So I guess I would have done worse than them.
I definitely learned that I judge people when i fist glance at them. I also learned that it is very hard to tell what race a person is just by looking at them. When the races were revealed to me I was very surprised at some of them. I think that they people who participated did a very good job. I don’t think that I could have done any better. It was also kind of sad to see that I found myself second guessing some peoples names that I have been going to school with for four or more years now. The activity made me realize that I really don’t know these people and it made me realize how little I really do know about the people I look at and judge quickly.
During the PowerPoint I learned that I am not as knowledgeable about diverse ethnicities as I would like to be. During the PowerPoint I marked every on as similar ethnicities and did not think to differentiate them too much. Thus, I got a lot of answers wrong. The test showed that people prejudge others based on their looks. For example, a murder was mistaken for an actress just because she was blonde and looked happy. Another example was when anther murder was mistaken for a teacher due to his suit and the books that he had with him. In class I think that I would have done well with guessing everyone’s names but not so well about guessing peoples ethnicities. There are so many cultures and they all have different unique physical characteristics that I think that it is very hard to know one from another. However, I do intend to learn the more prominent ethnicities due to my future career.
During the power point i realized that i didn't know a thing about race and ethnicity. I realized that i should be more in tune with the world and different ethnicity's and religions etc. I also realized that some of my class mates were in the same boat, there were few people who got most of the questions right. I think that its a good thing that we are learning this so we become more familiar with different people and their beliefs. And i actually don't think figuring names out would have been easy but maybe dominant ethnicity because its easier to pick out one then all of them.
During the powerpoint about Race & Ethnicity I learned that it is not as easy as it seems to identify a persons ethnicity by the way they look. I was very unsure of my thoughts so I kept them to myself, but after finding out the answers I saw that some of my guesses were right. But besides those few correct answers my judgement was very inaccurate. I found that often times I didn't even know what to guess. I don't think that knowing the persons name would have helped me to guess their ethnicity anymore that seeing a picture of them.
During this activity I learned that people tend to judge a lot. It is not that bad, but it can be at times. We see one person and automatically assume their race and what we think of them. When most of the time we are completely wrong. During this activity, I got almost all of the people’s ethnic backgrounds and occupations wrong. This showed that you really don’t know anything by just looking at someone. Everyone has their own different cultural characteristics. I think that part II for the people that participated in it seemed pretty hard, but they did pretty well with names as well as their backgrounds. If I was in their position I probably would have done the same they did because they did not guess everyone’s backgrounds correctly and I would have had trouble with that too.
I learned that you can't really judge a person or guess their ethnicity just because of their skin tone or anything. So you can't reallly be racist towards someone if you don't know what they are. Granted you can be racist no matter what but it's not fair to the person being discriminated on. I think I woudld've done a little better if I knew who the people were in the slides. I only knew Ted Bundy and an actor. Although based on their skin tone you can probably guess what their dominant race is. Even if you can't guess exactly what race it is, you can probably guess from what part of the world it is. So I learned that I don't know a lot of people in the media today. Which is kind of sad I guess..
After the demenstration i learned that people really do judge a book by it's cover. Not all people look their ethnicity. I think it was really hard what Jenna and Brendon and they both did a good job. If i was to do the same thing they did i would most likely get the same outcome because i was just as stumped as as they were when they were going aroung the room. Over all people do judge other on what they look like even if it's not ment.
During the PowerPoint I learned that I judge people from first glance by their appearance. I learned that there are so many different ethnicities in each person that I had never even heard of. The activity during Part II opened my eyes to realize that we don't even know the names or ethnicities of the people we sit in a classroom with every day. The task that Ruben and Briyanna performed was very difficult, I do not think i could have guessed as many dominant ethnicities correctly as they did.
From this activity I learned that I do in fact judge people about how people look. And I do believe that there can be many different ethnicities in someone's background that not everyone can pinpoint on a person.
I think that what Brendon and Jenna did in class was very difficult and I know I would never be able to go up and do what they did as well as they did mostly because I don't exactly know everyone's last name and the fact that you had to pinpoint their dominant ethnicity just makes it impossible for me to do any better.
As intended, this activity was very eye opening. Everybody has preconceived notions of race and when trying to pin-point somebody's race based on one picture this is exhibited. After this exercise I was more aware of the fact that you can't judge a person's race just based on their picture. Although race definitely is determined by your physical characteristics, different races may overlap with certain characteristics. For example, an African-American girl may have black hair and semi-dark skin while an Indian woman may have the same combination. Race isn't simply skin deep, there's a lot more to it.
I don't think I would've done better than the people who tried to guess what ethnicity everyone in the class was. This is since a name can't say everything about a person and who they are. Also looks can be deceiving and what you look like may be a combination of races which makes it harder to distinguish what dominant race you belong to. From this activity I learned that unless you know someone well you cannot always judge what race someone is based on their names and the features they have.
I agree with Taylor that these activities were more eye opening than anything. Personally, I learned that it is not a strength of mine to determine someone's race or ethnicity by looking at them. I think most people also learned this about themselves. For me, it was too easy to see a certain skin tone or feature and automatically guess the stereotypical ethnic background. As for the second part of the activity, I was really impressed with the volunteers in our class. They actually did pretty well at determining classmates' dominant ethnicities. I don't think I would have done better at this task: I would probably do very well at knowing everyone's name, but struggle at figuring out ethnic background. However, I learned that while this might be a cool talent to have, guessing a person's race/ethnicity is not neccessary. Without trying to do so, we can actually get to know a person and then make judgements about them.
I learned that just because a person looks a certain way does not mean that you can easily pin point their race. I also learned that it is not easy to just look at a person and decide their dominant race because they could have characteristics of another race that show more. You could have many characteristics in you that come from many different races, which would confuse someone. I do not think I could have done better in part II because that was a hard thing to do and a lot of people have Italian or Polish names but their dominant race was not that of their last name.
From the "What Did You See" activity, I learned that you honestly can't look at people and judge them by first glance. I personally did absolutely horrible on the activity. I think the activity also showed me and others that you don't know what a person might have previously been through and their cultural beliefs just by knowing their "main ethnicity." There were a lot of people who happened be certian ethnicities that you would have never expected. If I had to do part two of the activity, I think I would have done extremely well with getting everyones name right. I know everyones first name In our class. As far as guessing my classmates main ethnicity, I think I would have done just as well as Ruben did, because when Brianna went, I myself was guessing in my head and did fairly well. I also know alot about last names and how they have to do with what ethnicity they might be, so it was easier to guess.
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