Overview
Consider the following questions in your responses: *4 sentences at least for each question
- What is your first memory of race?
- Who was involved in this memory (friends, family, community members, etc.)
- How did this act make you feel at the time?
- How do you feel about it now, especially after being in this course for a few weeks?
- How would communication effect this scenario? Could it have been more positive if intercultural communication had been used?
Quiz 7
Directions: For this activity, please answer the four questions. You can write a paragraph for each answer or more, depending upon your thoughts and reflections. A paragraph in this case is at least 4-5 sentences.
1. Explain the link between symbolic absence and symbolic presence (pg. 203) in your own words.
2. Can we ever truly make up for historical injustices? Why or why not? What steps could be taken to make up the injustices in some way?
3. What is the role of history in how we communicate interculturally? Think of the ways in which certain cultural groups have been framed in your own communities growing up and how that shaped the ways in which you responded to them.
4. After reading the chapter, consider the following quote, "History is written by the victors." What would it mean to hear from the 'losers' in history more? Are there certain voices that should never be heard in these circumstances? Who is deciding and is that ethical?
Quiz 8
1. Although race is considered a social construct, how does race play out in material ways? (i.e. police brutality, racial profiling, etc.)
*For this question, write a few sentences about how race is considered a social construct based on the textbook and then provide a specific example of how people are still identified as raced beings. The example can either be one of privilege or the opposite (ex. the model minority myth can offer privileges to some)
2. Read the following quote: America is a melting pot.
After engaging with the chapter and other material from this week, do you think that this quote is true or false? Why might this saying be problematic?
3. Think of an example of current legal and political discourse that engages with racial issues. How might intercultural communication benefit those creating legal policy? How might intercultural communication help those who want to resist these policies? *Please give a specific example of this one, legal issues around race are always ongoing so there will be plenty to choose from!
4. Is post-racialism an achievable ideal, or is it a theoretical concept? Do you believe that post racialism is something that we as a society should strive towards, why or why not?