Blog 12

Race is a very interesting concept. For one, we learned that racism is not a term. It is a trait that people identify as race because of the 1800s. The movie, Crash, was the perfect model of racism, or traitism. Although, in my opinion it is somewhat extreme racism, there is some truth to the movie. People do take a lot of stereotypes to heart when the view minorities. Many times, the first thoughts are stereotypical. People do not judge based on personality. In the movie, every person was racist. The white detective was racist to the black upper middle class couple. At the same time, the Persian man was racist to the Latino man. Ludacris was a changed man, but he was portrayed as the stereotypical gang member who stole (which he did) but then he changed. People, I believe to a degree, are racist to a degree. But, it is how that they deal with it that shows their true potential as a human being.

Blog 11

For this blog, we were supposed to blog about something we did last week. Rather, I would like to blog about why Stevenson punishes the Seniors for senior ditch day. Why? Why is it that seniors at Stevenson get punished while seniors at BG, Hersey, Palitine, Prospect, Niles, and other schools do not? I am very intrigued by this. Stevenson has a weird reputation. No snow days built into the curriculum and punishment for a day where no teacher really plans a lesson? Is it because Stevenson wants to keep up their reputation of being an excellent school? Or is it to appease the tax paying family members? I do not know, and since Stevenson does not give a good answer, I doubt we will ever find out! I would like to point out too that when I went into the deans office, there were two types of people in there. Asians, and Athletes. Athletes I understand why, but why Asians? Is it a stereotype that Asians are always at school because they are more intelligent? Or is it because Asian parents are strict and do not let their kids ditch school because they know the value of education? Stevenson is a weird place that I will never understand.