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Sunday, December 7, 2014

"Blog: The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression"

Just about everyone has experienced bias, prejudice, and /or oppression that they wished they would have said something in response to a person’s insensitive remark or stereotypes.  We as a society are often afraid to say anything because of the damage it can do to our relationships.  Being a victim of stereotype behavior motivated by prejudice regarding ethnicity of a person close to me left me very sad.  The ability to automatically categorize people is a major superiority of society based on social and other individualities. 


Keep in mind ways of distinct bias, prejudice and/or oppression which the incident diminish equity can be encounter by incidents in real life situations as well as movie theater and television shows.  Trusting on biases but keeping them in check involves a tantalizing stability of self-awareness.  The most upsetting feeling that prejudice happen every day, and people believe it does not apply to them.  And the reality of it all is stereotypes might have offended you or somebody you care about.  Awareness would be a change in order to turn this incident into an opportunity for greater equity.



‘The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity....The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity; therefore it cannot unfold in the antagonistic relations between oppressors and oppressed. No one can be authentically human while he [or she] prevents others from being so.’

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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