Monday, August 22, 2011

Background on Gangs

What do you know about gangs?  That they are a group of people that protect part of a neighborhood they seem to use Drugs, Alchohol, and Party alot.



What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc. when i use to live in Los Angeles i use to see alot of people get involved in gangs and and urn into crips or bloods..

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Project Implicit Test

The interpretation is described as 'automatic preference for Light Skin' if you responded faster when Light Skin faces and Good words were classified with the same key than when Dark Skin faces and Good words were classified with the same key. Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic preference may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. Alternatively, you may have received feedback that 'there were too many errors to determine a result'.


*** What were your results?
Picture Provided

*** Were you surprised by your results? Why?
 cause im Rasict and i didnt know

*** Why do you think your results were what they were?
Bad they say i dotn like dark skinned people

*** What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?
that they should ask more different questions not the same issh...
*** How might this connect to the concept of immigration?
people not accepting other and they get deported

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

10 myths

1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
Of the more than 31 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2009, about 20 million were either citizens or legal residents

2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
Back then they only had like open immigration system where they check people it was legal.

3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
Anyone who has documents has the ability to cross over a border to stand in line and check in.

4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
People had to learn another language during the world war 1 and use it to teach their future kids.

5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
Peolple mkore than 50,000 immigrants became citizens and became Americanized because they had to suffer the
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
People settled from different parts of the world and got jobs from the Americans and got implantated into the new life
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
People thought that people got into more trouble if they were immigrants

8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
they thought since they were immigrants they didnt have to pay taxes

9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal
they aernt immigrants their just not legal