During the Prezi and corresponding 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...21 November 2011
What did you see???
During the Prezi and corresponding 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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By doing both the Prezi and the live demonstration, I learned not only about myself but about others. I learned that, I can be quick to judge someone just by looking at them. I thought it would be easy to figure out what someones ethnicity was, when in fact it was a lot harder. After doing the Prezi, I thought to myself that I would be able to better figure it out when it was in person rather then a picture. To my surprise it wasn't. I don't believe that I could have done any better then the students in my class.I think it shows that in society people make judgments of others based on their looks and what race they appear to be. When in reality, they may not be that ethnicity at all. I also learned from the Prezi that while some people look to be a certain occupation, they are something totally different. For example, a person who appears distinguished and clean-cut could in fact be a serial killer. Again, judging a book by its cover is something I believe a lot of people do. I think everyone has done it, I believe that it is a natural thing to do. I learned that myself as well as others should not assume anything about a person, but rather get to know more about them.
While viewing the Prezi demonstration on celebrities trying to figure out each person's ethnic background, I learned that it is very hard to accurately guess which ethnicity someone is from. Not only is it difficult to distinguish a person's facial features apart just to a dominant background, but listing every trait to get a "correct" answer was extremely hard. When we did part II of the activity, Kaity and Jess did a really good job guessing people's dominant background just by looking at them and maybe even using last names as clues. I learned from this exercise that you can't judge someone's background based just on appearance alone. I think that if I had volunteered and stood in front of the room and tried to guess each person in the room's dominant ethnicity I wouldn't have done half as good of a job as Kaity and Jess did. Judging someone's appearance for ethnicity such as these two activities opened my mind to think that just because someone looks a certain way to you doesn't mean that it is correct.
During the Prezi, I learned that everything is not as it seems. A person may look Puerto Rican or White, however they may be Puerto Rican, White and Polish. Each person is unique, and we should never judge a person by just their physical appearance. By judging we can hurt their feelings, or they can take offense to the judgment we are making. I know I do not want to be considered "white" because I do not consider myself to be just "white” I consider myself to be "Italian" which is something completely different. During the live presentation, I volunteered to stand at the front of the class alone and guess each person’s dominant ethnicity as well as their first and last name. For my friends, this was easy, but for people I did not know, it was hard. It was so hard because I did not want to offend anyone if I got their name or ethnicity wrong. I also got nervous at some points and forgot names that I knew. Overall, it was hard experience but it helped me learn more about my classmates and it helped me realize how hard it is to guess a person’s ethnic background, just by looking at their face or the color of their skin. I am glad I volunteered because that experience will something I will always remember and probably never get to experience again.
The Prezi proved to be quite difficult, identifying every last ethnicity of the person was almost impossible I felt. Some were partially correct, and some very obvious, but the bottom line is it's hard to tell a person's entire background from just a picture. The occupation part showed me how I correlate looks with certain occupations, but it's not something I try to do often. In other words, I try not to judge someone solely based on the way they look.
The demonstration in class was amusing to watch, as it proved to be quite difficult. I know I definitely could not have done a better job than the people that did it, and they did well. I discovered some of the very different ethnicities we have in our class, and how you wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at them.
During the Prezi i deffinitely learned a lot about myself as well as others in relation to their preconceived notions about Race and Ethnicity. First of all, i noticed that people are very quick to judge based on outter appearance, i don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing because at first glance what else to we have to base our predictions on? But as for the people shown on the Prezi, a lot of people made their predictions based on skin color and for some accessories. For one male who was wearing a turban, people including myself assumed that he was an arab and some kind of terrorist. I don't remember exactly what ethnicity he actually was but i know it was something completely opposite, he was white and from America. The only reason he was dressed the way he was, was because that is the life style he chose and shouldn't have to be judged because of it but that is just the way society is. I strongly commend the people who participated in Part II. I'm not saying that Part II was easy, however I think it may have been a little bit easier than the prezi only because in this case because we were familiar with each other we knew each other's last names. In some situations knowing a last name could have been a dead give away to the person's ethnicity although sometimes you could have been completely off. I don't think I would have done a better job than the people who went, they predicted some people that I would never have guessed but this was a great activity to learn about ourselves and each other.
From the Prezi and live demonstration, I’ve learn that it’s hard to judge a person just by the way you see them as. The appearance itself doesn’t really give much on what their ethnicity was. A person may look something that you may consider it would be from the outside, but, can be more or different then you might have predicted should be. I think most of us do judge a person just by their physical appearance and its normal thing because you need to have some basic understanding that allows yourself to know that person more. I don’t think I would have done any better job than they have done on the demonstration. These two activities, made me understand that it’s difficult to identify someone just by their look.
By doing the Prezi and live demonstration i learned that just because a person seems one thing doesn't mean that's what they are or what they're dominant ethnicity actually was. It was really hard to try and figure out what i person was just by the photos and though i tried to look for clues in facial features and names, it was very hard to try and guess what they were accurately. I learned that people aren't often what they seem. The presentation proved this, for example i thought a specific woman was an actress when in reality she was a serial killer. It was very frustrating because you're trusting your instincts and they don't always serve you right. For the live demonstration i think i would have been terrible, for the people i knew it would have been easy, but for people i never really talked to before it was difficult for me to guess. I realized by doing these activities that you can't always identify someone by their look.
During the Prezi, I learned that you can't judge a book by its cover. People often just assume what a person's donimant enthicity based on the color of their skin. However someone with lighter skin may be Irish, Black, and French. The activity proved the whole class wrong in the way we look at people. Throughout the live demonstration it was funny to watch Gigi and Eileen try to identity everyone's names and race. Watching it didn't seem that hard because a lot you can make a guess by the last name. However, this taught us how you cannot just identify a person by they're appereance or names. I give major props to them both because I know I wouldn't have done any better myself because it's hard to tell by looking at someone and especially do not want to offend anyone. Both activities opened up my eyes and allowed me to see that you can not sterotype a person into a race without even getting to know them first.
After viewing the Prezi and the live demonstration between Rachel and Gavin, I learned that people "judge books by their covers." Looking at someone, i could probably tell what their ethnicity is, but on the other hand they could be a completely different ethnicity. The outside of someone doesn't always reflect what they are nationality-wise. And that's why I feel like society is a scary place. Everybody judges others by the way they look. A man who looks like a business man, could be a notorious gang member. That's why we as a society, should take the time and get to know someone before we make assumptions about other people.
By viewing the Prezi and the class activity, I learned that you cant judge people just by how they look, and that it's very hard to accurately determine what race they are. Just by looking at someone you might not be able to determine what they are. Knowing their names might help determine what they are, Sarah Lapierre for instance or even Mary Mancini. As Gigi and Eileen went around the room I tried to guess before them, and I almost always guessed exactly what they did. The prezi and this activity show how society judges people based on their first look at the person. I learned that you cant judge people just by what they look like because even though someone might look one way, they could be completely different.
During the prezi and live demonstration, I learned that many people make quick assumptions about other people. For example, in the prezi when there were pictures of the same girl but edited to look like different races, no one picked the right girl because everyone assumed she was a certain ethnicity because of which one looked the most normal. In the live activity, Eilene took a long time to figure out what ethnicity each person is. Even though she probably could have guessed quickly, she said that she didn't want to seem "racist" so she took her time and said it quietly so people couldn't hear her. This taught me that it is a lot harder to figure out what ethnicity people are than it seems. If I was the one to participate in this activity, I think I would have gotten pretty much everyone's names because I have been around them for a long time, but I don't think I could have done any better with the ethnicities. That is hard for me to tell someone's ethnicity just by looking at them, and I give Gigi and Eilene props for getting a lot of them right.
After looking at the prezi and watching the live demonstartion, i have physically seen how people judge others on their looks and are often wrong. When we went through all the pictures on the prezi, there were many varieties of ethnicities and races involved. I thought i would do pretty well, however when it came down to someone who was on often lumped under one group, i had no idea what race and ethnicity they were. For example, like Nikki Saner's presentation today, all different groups such as Saudi Arabians, Muslims, Iranians, etc are all lumped into the middle eastern category. This made it clearer for me to see how although the world has gotten less prejudice and racist, prejudice and racism happen everyday for no reason. The way a person looks or dresses should not set the precidence for the way they should be treated or thought of as, however for everyone in the world to stop and stand up for all kinds of people, it could not happen. When Jess and Kaity did the live demonstration i was suprised by how many they got right. I would not have been able to guess what half of the people in our class are. It is tough to look at someone and see their race or ethnicity right away.
During the Prezi, and after really taking a moment to step back and think about how people in our society are today, it made me realize how quick people are to judge you, based on your looks or how your act, or how society has labeled you. For me as long as I have lived in Newington or even Connecticut, we as a society have always labeled those who live in Hartford or even New Britain, they are poor or ghetto, and we associate them as a huge Latino population whom live in Hartford, and Polish people live in new Britain. Also, we always assume that when we hear about robberies or shop lifters or criminals for that matter, we think that the only people who would be capable of such a thing would be African Americans, or as we call them today "blacks". The whole point of the Prezi I think was to show us how quick we are to judge people right off the bat, before we really even get to know them, how we as Americans always judge a book by its cover, and I don’t believe that will ever change, not in our future and not yet, unless we choose to do something about it, after all it only takes one. As a society we make judgments on how people look and what race they are, but we all have to remember that it may in fact not be the race or the looks on the person that make them who they are, but it's society that influences them and the natural things that we all go through. The Prezi taught me a lot, but in the future I can only hope that we all stop judging people strictly based on their looks or race but you get to know them first.
Stephanie Kiback
While doing the Prezi activity and corresponding with the live demonstration done within our class, I learned a lot about myself. The one main thing that I learned was the fact that I am so oblivious to being able to read a person’s race or ethnicity by just looking at them. The activity really made me notice that I never really sat down to learn all the races and ethnicities around me besides my own. For my class, the two people to do our in class “What do you see” segment was Kaity Wilson and Jess Goldman. They both did a really good job; actually ten times better than what I initially thought they were going to do. They both were pretty solid on guessing the person’s ethnicity; however, Kaity got a couple more points more on Jess because of her knowledge of the student’s names in our class. If it were for me trying to guess everyone’s names and ethnicities, I would have embarrassed myself. I am not good with names at all and I cannot read ethnicities by a face to save my life. So my hat is off to Jess and Kaity! Great job ladies!!!
Stephanie Kiback
I think this Prezi taught everyone a very valuable lesson about race and ethnicity, and that is that you can never judge a person simply by the way they look. Many races and many different cultures came together to form our country, and every person in it. There is no "right" way a person should look, nor is there a "right" way any race should look. Everyone looks different, everyone comes from different cultures, and everyone can have a different background. However, because of people's preconcieved notions about race and ethnicity, we all assume we know what race and ethnicity people are just by looking at them. The people who participated in Part 2 of the activity tried doing an impossible task by trying to guess a person's background by looking at them. I do not think I would have done any better, nor would anyone else because it is impossible to guess where a person's family originated from or to guess their entire racial makeup simply by what they look like.
From both the Prezi and the demonstation I quickly learned the type of person i am. I judged people just by their appearance.Even though I tend to think I wouldnt, I put them into some sort of "category", stereotyping people. Just by being seen a picture made it difficult to determine the ethnicity of a person, however my judgement on their appearence labled them. I'd like to think that i wouldnt do such a thing in person or during the day but we all know we do it. Society most definitely makes assumptions on people just from their outter looks. People may look one race or the other but in fact be something completely different. The prezi taught me about myself, but also made me realize how i do this on a daily basis and so do many others. Its sad to say, but it showed how judgemental society has become.
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