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204561 Responseshttp://www.racerelationsproject.org/2010/03/revisioning-the-revisioning-stage/Revisioning+the+Revisioning+Stage2010-03-31+15%3A17%3A00Sam+Richards to Revisioning the Revisioning Stage
I live in a small town in North Jersey and majority of the population is White. In my high school there are a few Black, Asian, and Hispanic people. Being an Asian American, I feel left out because I am the minority in my town so it was not really diverse. Also, I hear racial comments back and forth, everyday during my high school years. It feels like I will never learn if I do not get out of this town. Ever since I came into Penn State, I have never seen so much diversity in this school. Since I am going to school in Pennsylvania, I was expecting to be predominately white people. But I have never seen so many Asians in Penn State ever and I finally feel comfortable where I am at. I am glad that I get to experience the diversity in this school because I believe that I will learn more about everyone’s background. I believe it is great to learn different backgrounds from mine because it does make everyone unique and that is who they are in general. After my experiences, I have come to the revisioning stage. I realized that I am close to reaching to humanitarian because I do not have a problem hanging out with different races. In high school, I was basically friends with Hispanic, Black, White, Asian, and etc. I am really thankful that I am from a different race because I know how it feels to be judged and I believe that other races will agree with me on that. I am saying this because it is my own opinion; people, do not get offended about what I am going to say. Since I am a color person I feel that it is easy for me to connect with other races than white people. I see white people hanging out with white people and I feel like they do not hang out with other races. But I can also see that Asians hang out with Asians, and black people hang out with black people. I just feel that people of color have an easy time connecting with colored people than white people. I am glad that this class has taught me to be open more and be proud for who I am. I am proud to be an Asian American. I am not regretting anything about it. I just hope that people that are in this class, would learn something out of it because I believe that the diversity is going to keep growing and growing. With that being said, people should just accept other races so there is no hostility in this country. Hopefully 20 years later, everyone would just get along and treat each other equally.
First, it's a Disney movie made for kids. And it's a classic. Looking way too much into that one. As for the rest of the comment, I grew up in the city in Philly and lived there until I was 14. I always loved playing basketball and I met and was friends with a lot of black kids through this. I don't think I ever really thought about our differences or anything like that. When I started getting older however, the neighborhood became worse and worse and I started to see and hear racism from white people in the community who felt like it was being taken over. I feel bad for the rest of black people who get a bad rap and just thrown into the stereotype of all the problems that come along in inner-cities. I had a black neighbor who was one of the nicest people I knew and proved how unfortunate it is that some people choose to behave inappropriately and give the rest of their community/culture/whatever a bad image.
The only way that someone might be different from you is maybe the different cultures that they are used to. Other than that everyone is basically the same. I think when we started learning about this stuff in class I did revise some things, but I still have the same thoughts and ideas today. I see race as a problem that should easily go away, but it isn't. The only thing from making this not such a big problem anymore for everyone is that everyone has to accept each other. People need to be taught the same things and learn that just because they have a different skin color, it does not mean there should be that difference between them.
I definitely can't relate to the questioners experience because I grew up in Chester County, Pa which is 90% white and attended school that were well over 90% white. Throughout all of elementary school, there was never a person of color in my entire grade which was about seventy people. And in high school, there were probably about five colored people in my class, which was a class of 350 people. I never really thought about how badly my life was lacking diversity, I was pretty much oblivious to it. And even in college, I still hang out with a lot of people from my high school and all the new friends I have are white and I'm in a sorority which is predominantly white. So really, racial equality and issues were just something I never had to think about because I didn't see them in my daily experiences. Therefore, I didn't really start moving through the stages at all until I got into SOC 119 and have started seeing that, yeah, there's still alot of inequality out there and it's been interesting especially for me to hear the opinion's of people of color. It's definitely been an eye opening class and I'm not afraid to talk openly about race anymore. I guess you could say I'm in the revisioning stage right now, even though "white guilt" isn't really something I've fully grasped but I definitely have a lot of new perspectives on things.
I'm from Hawaii, and, let me tell you, white people are definitely the minority there. There are sooooooo many ethnicities from around the world there that it's virtually impossible to ignore race and race issues. I realized that there are other races from a veeeerry young age, so I either don't remember ever being in the "Pre-awakening" or "Awakening" stages, or I was in it for a very short time. I think, though, that I was thrown into the Revisioning stage ages ago when my classmates and I began learning about how Hawaii came to be an American state. All of a sudden it was "Yeah, those f-ing haoles stole our f-ing land!" kind of a thing and, thus, the white guilt set in.
I've moved passed it since then, though. Long story short, I grew up in a diverse community, too, and I hit Revisioning way before I set foot in Soc 119.
I think that it is great that people are willing to understand other races even if they are thrown into a society where there are so many judgments and stereotypes about people. I believe that people who are surrounded by diversity do have a much better idea about the different racial groups. This does not excuse people who grew up in a place where there was no diversity because as a human being we should be able to agree that everyone is the same in some type of way and we should be treated equally. But people who were born into the situation as the girl in the video then they do have an upper hand in understanding race relations more n depth.
I live in a small town in North Jersey and majority of the population is White. In my high school there are a few Black, Asian, and Hispanic people. Being an Asian American, I feel left out because I am the minority in my town so it was not really diverse. Also, I hear racial comments back and forth, everyday during my high school years. It feels like I will never learn if I do not get out of this town. Ever since I came into Penn State, I have never seen so much diversity in this school. Since I am going to school in Pennsylvania, I was expecting to be predominately white people. But I have never seen so many Asians in Penn State ever and I finally feel comfortable where I am at. I am glad that I get to experience the diversity in this school because I believe that I will learn more about everyone’s background. I believe it is great to learn different backgrounds from mine because it does make everyone unique and that is who they are in general. After my experiences, I have come to the revisioning stage. I realized that I am close to reaching to humanitarian because I do not have a problem hanging out with different races. In high school, I was basically friends with Hispanic, Black, White, Asian, and etc. I am really thankful that I am from a different race because I know how it feels to be judged and I believe that other races will agree with me on that. I am saying this because it is my own opinion; people, do not get offended about what I am going to say. Since I am a color person I feel that it is easy for me to connect with other races than white people. I see white people hanging out with white people and I feel like they do not hang out with other races. But I can also see that Asians hang out with Asians, and black people hang out with black people. I just feel that people of color have an easy time connecting with colored people than white people. I am glad that this class has taught me to be open more and be proud for who I am. I am proud to be an Asian American. I am not regretting anything about it. I just hope that people that are in this class, would learn something out of it because I believe that the diversity is going to keep growing and growing. With that being said, people should just accept other races so there is no hostility in this country. Hopefully 20 years later, everyone would just get along and treat each other equally.
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First, it's a Disney movie made for kids. And it's a classic. Looking way too much into that one. As for the rest of the comment, I grew up in the city in Philly and lived there until I was 14. I always loved playing basketball and I met and was friends with a lot of black kids through this. I don't think I ever really thought about our differences or anything like that. When I started getting older however, the neighborhood became worse and worse and I started to see and hear racism from white people in the community who felt like it was being taken over. I feel bad for the rest of black people who get a bad rap and just thrown into the stereotype of all the problems that come along in inner-cities. I had a black neighbor who was one of the nicest people I knew and proved how unfortunate it is that some people choose to behave inappropriately and give the rest of their community/culture/whatever a bad image.
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The only way that someone might be different from you is maybe the different cultures that they are used to. Other than that everyone is basically the same. I think when we started learning about this stuff in class I did revise some things, but I still have the same thoughts and ideas today. I see race as a problem that should easily go away, but it isn't. The only thing from making this not such a big problem anymore for everyone is that everyone has to accept each other. People need to be taught the same things and learn that just because they have a different skin color, it does not mean there should be that difference between them.
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I definitely can't relate to the questioners experience because I grew up in Chester County, Pa which is 90% white and attended school that were well over 90% white. Throughout all of elementary school, there was never a person of color in my entire grade which was about seventy people. And in high school, there were probably about five colored people in my class, which was a class of 350 people. I never really thought about how badly my life was lacking diversity, I was pretty much oblivious to it. And even in college, I still hang out with a lot of people from my high school and all the new friends I have are white and I'm in a sorority which is predominantly white. So really, racial equality and issues were just something I never had to think about because I didn't see them in my daily experiences. Therefore, I didn't really start moving through the stages at all until I got into SOC 119 and have started seeing that, yeah, there's still alot of inequality out there and it's been interesting especially for me to hear the opinion's of people of color. It's definitely been an eye opening class and I'm not afraid to talk openly about race anymore. I guess you could say I'm in the revisioning stage right now, even though "white guilt" isn't really something I've fully grasped but I definitely have a lot of new perspectives on things.
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I'm from Hawaii, and, let me tell you, white people are definitely the minority there. There are sooooooo many ethnicities from around the world there that it's virtually impossible to ignore race and race issues. I realized that there are other races from a veeeerry young age, so I either don't remember ever being in the "Pre-awakening" or "Awakening" stages, or I was in it for a very short time. I think, though, that I was thrown into the Revisioning stage ages ago when my classmates and I began learning about how Hawaii came to be an American state. All of a sudden it was "Yeah, those f-ing haoles stole our f-ing land!" kind of a thing and, thus, the white guilt set in.
I've moved passed it since then, though. Long story short, I grew up in a diverse community, too, and I hit Revisioning way before I set foot in Soc 119.
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I think that it is great that people are willing to understand other races even if they are thrown into a society where there are so many judgments and stereotypes about people. I believe that people who are surrounded by diversity do have a much better idea about the different racial groups. This does not excuse people who grew up in a place where there was no diversity because as a human being we should be able to agree that everyone is the same in some type of way and we should be treated equally. But people who were born into the situation as the girl in the video then they do have an upper hand in understanding race relations more n depth.
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