This quiz really took me by surprise. I was ready to take a quiz on what we had learned so far and it was probably a lot harder then that would have been. I am already not very good with celebrities and politicians names so this was very tricky. When I took the quiz the first time I was able to fill out most of the white and about half of the white women, but it was still difficult.
I thought the white people and the African American people were the easiest to answer, then the rest went in order of the quiz, Latino, Middle Eastern and Chinese. The easiest gender was always men. I was really curious before I took the quiz a second time because I wanted to know what I could find on the Internet about people in these cultures. It was very difficult. It was easy looking up information about white and African American people but it was so difficult from there on out. I had a really hard time finding Middle Eastern people and Chinese people. I searched and searched and found hardly any. The media really only shows people what them to see.
American history is very one sided. It shows people what they want them to know, not what actually happened. It was easiest for me to think of white people because that is who American History talks about. I read so much about African slaves in the 1600's but couldn't find one African name from that time period. Many groups are not talked about in the American history and I don't know why. Maybe it is because of white privilege and only white men became known. Most groups are not talked about in American history, Chinese, Middle Easterner's are but not always in a good way.
I thought this quiz was very interesting. I couldn't believe how hard of a time I had, I see people of those ethnicities all the time but didn't know anyone for the decades. It is really depressing that our country is very mixed but our history isn't.
Why do you think other ethnic groups are left out? Is it because of "white privilege"?
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I think many ethnic groups are left out because many people in our nation are still close-minded. While thinking about people with Middle Eastern decent there are still many with very prejudice views towards them after 911. Also since our country was founded mainly by people of European decent it impacts us since that is our history and that is what many teach in school.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. We are taught things in school that we know about and what could we know more about than our own (white) history. I think that other groups are left out because we do not know that much about their cultures. That is why until 9/11 we were not taught about the Middle East. I think that in schools we groups cannot be left out because people are still racially biased however, I think that in people's families there are some times that things get discussed that there are racial biases present. I really do not think that these groups are left out because of "white privilege". I think that we do not know about them so we feel that we can not teach about them.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree that most ethnic groups are marginalized because they have been oppressed by the dominant white male opinion. White males have had a stranglehold on what gets put in our history books and what gets left out, and that is why minority groups are often nothing more than decorations on the landscape of the history of the white male. White privilege, as phrased in the question, is exactly what has marginalized other groups, and it is a re-centering of their prespectives that needs to take place in order to subvert the oppressive force of white privilege.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the first post, that our large European descent influences what we learn in the history books. Close-mindedness is still prevalent in society as well. "White privilege" can be included in this because it can include close mindedness.
ReplyDeleteI think certain ethnic groups are left out because we have learned about the same thing the same way for so many years. Our history books haven't changed in quite some time and we have been learning the same thing because of that. I do think there is still a bit of "white supremacy" in the United States, but I think this is just because the majority of the first immigrants were from Europe where the color of their skin was white.
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