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Assignment TakeAway <\/strong>V<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the fifth and final assignment paper, I chose to an academic journal about attachment and child-parent bonds comparing Japan and North American mothers and their children. I chose attachment because I am interested in childhood to adolescent developmental psychology to have a deeper understanding on how fragile children are to their environment and upbringing. I chose Japan in particular, because I plan to apply to a program to teach abroad once graduating. What I learned in the journal was very helpful for understanding how child-parent bonds can affect a child\u2019s success as they grow, especially if they have traits that are considered \u201cundesirable\u201d by their cultures norms. This is something to keep vigil for in a classroom, especially with elementary age children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parent-child bonds are essential to a child’s well-being as they mature into adults and a strong determinant of how they will perform in other areas of life, such as school.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In my cognitive psychology class, we have learned how our memories are most vivid in our childhood to adolescence. Our earliest memories stick with us, as does what we learn in those foundational years, as it influences our perception on the world around us and of ourselves. Whether the child grows up in a country that leans toward individualism or collectivism, early parent-child bonds and how their parents view attachment plays an important, foundational role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Assignment TakeAway <\/strong>IV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This assignment asked the class to find advertisements that compared and contrasted men and women from another country outside the U.S and the U.S. The other country I chose was South Korea. I also chose the direction for the assignment to explore beauty and image standards per each gender and country. I chose this direction because it feels insightful to see what the norms are at face value, surface-level, materialistic and image-wise as a gateway into shallow, everyday, casual interactions and the more complex interactions of societal, workplace hierarchy, media influence and attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.thinkwithgoogle.com\/future-of-marketing\/management-and-culture\/diversity-and-inclusion\/-fenty-beauty-inclusive-advertising\/
I found this picture for Fenty Beauty in my search for advertisements, and I think it depicts how conscious diversity and inclusion is becoming, as we embrace the fact that nothing is a “one size fits all” but it still takes a collective to acknowledge it and exemplify it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My personal experience with image and beauty as a young black woman in the U.S. has been a brutal and turbulent struggle. From self hatred, to enduring rude and unwarranted comments, wanting to look lighter and have more angular facial features, straight hair, a straighter nose, all to fit into what I’m exposed to everyday and the messages I’m fed. I sincerely thought I had to look more Eurocentric to be accepted in society, including professional workplaces and to desired by men. I sincerely<\/em> thought that, and deemed myself forever alone because I thought I was undesirable and unlovable. Luckily something amazing happened and I started to radically embrace my dark skin and natural hair in 2013 and has been working on loving myself for myself since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While looking for images for the assignment and reflecting on how much diversity and inclusion has progressed in media representation, I have seen that we’ve come a long even from my high school years when I went through the worst period of self-image struggles. There are all types of skin colors, facial features, body shapes, hair types, eye colors, hair colors whether it’s a natural color or unnatural color, tattoos and no tattoos, piercings and no piercings, and disabilities being represented by some clothing company, retail company and even in marketing images, stock photos or graphics. It’s refreshing to really take a step back and see the progress while reflecting on hindsight, but there is still a lot of work to do. It’s nice to see that we are headed in a direction of diversity and inclusion with speed and momentum, for women, men, and everyone in-between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Assignment TakeAway <\/strong>III<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For this assignment, we were asked to find a blog post about a student who had studied abroad and reflect on their experience. I chose a student who had studied abroad in Japan, who was also a young black woman, named Carter. Reading about her experience helped me understand what to expect as a person of color, a rare sight in Japan. However in urban areas, it\u2019s becoming increasingly more common but still incredibly rare.
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I also watch videos like these to gain a better understanding.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To travel while black is to accept that there will be a common denominator of discrimination and prejudice no matter where you go<\/em>. To educate oneself with how countries and cultures interact with foreigners first, then black people, than women, and whatever other label that will be a target for discrimination is to create schemas of at least having some idea of what to expect and prepare for such interactions. We just have to figure out ways to navigate an unfortunate universal disdain and fear of black people. Reading Carter\u2019s blog helped me do just that. As well as create a wider perspective with learning about cross-cultural differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Assignment TakeAway <\/strong>II<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This assignment asked students to read an article that highlighted 13 American values. The article was written mainly to acclimate those coming to the U.S. to American customs that may challenge the customs of the country from which they originally reside. The article seemed to have been written in only a way an American can write an article–emanating American pride in these customs, tying it to accomplishments and quite biased with an implied undertone of “this way is better” in the nature of how values were contrasted, in my opinion. With my experience with other cultures, their customs and values have a rich history and justifications, just as the American value system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One experience that I cherish is when I was a volunteer tutor to a Chinese native. His first language, naturally, was Chinese so it my task to teach him the basic mechanics of the English language. A byproduct of teaching him the English language also came with teaching him the ways of the Americans. By the time I had become his tutor, he had only been in the US for two months. Google Translate was our best friend. There was a stark contrast in how he approached things and how I approached things, even though he was just 9 years old. I also had to do the inevitable and teach him about race, especially when he was confused about my natural hair. That was a tough one for me, as I know he will go on to learn about stereotypes in good ol’ American fashion. I can only hope that our interaction will keep the ignorance at bay since he had social exposure with someone who is Black in his malleable stages of enculturation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My student and I back in 2017. I think about him often and hope he is doing well in the U.S.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Overall, this article allowed me to reflect on what is distinctly American and my experiences with different cultures as well. It also serves as a reminder that how I view life is greatly influenced by these values and an even greater reminder that my outlook and how to deal with life is not universal. That’s very humbling because there is so much to learn from other cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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