I learned from Assignment #3 that no matter where you go, there are people who will treat you based off of the way that they see you. Stereotypes and discrimination can be found anywhere. Sometimes it is unintentional because people may assume it makes others different from them, feel more comfortable. Other times it is intentional, and we have to either ignore it or try and correct it. The girl whose vlog I viewed was visiting Japan and is half-Japanese. To native Japanese people, she looks like a caucasian american girl, so that is the way they have decided to treat her.
This assignment was personal to me because being a white female in society I am viewed as small, weak, and vulnerable. Women in the United States have more freedom and rights than a lot of other women in the world, but we are still seen as inferior to the male population. Being white, others sometimes assume that I am privileged or grew up in a good home. I am not talking about white privilege, just privilege in general. I didn’t grow up in a two-parent home, going to good schools, having wealth, or a pretty picture like in the movies. I like when I am able to connect with people who think that I am different than them, and having them learn that I am just like them; or even, that they had a better life than I did. I don’t see myself as privileged because everything I have now, I have had to work hard for on my own.
I chose this image because it represents the depth of each person that we don’t get to see on the surface. It is better to get to know someone and then decide who you see them as.