Saturday, April 13, 2013
Entry
3_Bùi Thị Xuân Hương
ENTRY
3
Identifying Bias
ITEM
1: A
photo
- - Discrimination (race)
- - Analysis: It is clear to see that this
picture expresses a serious discrimination of race between the white and the
black people. Specifically, in a situation with the same condition, same
context but the white man is treated formally and luxuriously like a prime minister
sitting on a sofa and getting the good half of the table while the black man is
treated unfairly; he has to sit on a wood chair on the side of a steel fence
equivalent to the other half of the table. It is mentioned as a barrier which
the white people put to cause difficulties for the black peolple in political
issues of the society.
ITEM
2: A short story
There
was a blind girl who hated herself just because she’s blind.
She
hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He’s always there for her.
She said
that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
One day,
someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she can see everything,
including her boyfriend.
Her
boyfriend asked her, “now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”
The girl
was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend is blind too, and refused to marry
him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her
saying. “Just take care of my eyes dear.”
-
Discrimination
(disability)
-
Analysis:
the discrimination is express in two part. The first part is the first
sentence, the girl hated herself just because she’s blind. The other part is
when she refused to marry her loving boyfriend because he is blind too without
knowing that it was he that donated his eyes for her. In these cases, she had a
bad look on the blind and took a unexpected actions (hated and refused to marry
him)
ITEM 3: A
piece of a newspaper
In
sub-Saharan Africa, for example, heterosexual sex is the main route of
infection, which means that AIDS-related stigma in this region is mainly
focused on promiscuity and sex work.
“Because it is about sex, in my country
they then automatically think you got it because you have been loose...you are
not anything better than a prostitute...they don’t believe you didn’t get it
any other way”. An
Africa woman in the UK.
- - Prejudice
- - Analysis: Actually, because in
sub-Saharan Africa, the main source of AIDS is from promiscuity and sex work,
so people think that all people get AIDS here only by this way, not the others,
and they are considered prostitutes. It
is clear that there is a negative thought about the way of transmitting AIDS and people who are
affected by this disease.
After reading your entry, I have some comments for you.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I totally agree with you in the item 1 and 3.
Secondly, about the second item, I think that the first sentence that she hated herself just because she’s blind shows prejudice. in this case, in my personal view, she may think the blind is useless or may have the bad feeling of the blind who can not see anything. so she hate the blind or being blind.
In general, you’ve got an interesting entry. Good job!
Hope that my comments useful for you.
Best,
hoangtrang
Dear Huong,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading three items your entry 3, i have some comment for you:
In general, your entry 3 is quite good!
I exactly agree with you in the item 1.
Item 2 and item 3 is stories interesting. Item 3 is ok but with item 2 i think it's prejudice.because she hated herself when she is blind after she can see everything and her boyfriend was blind, so she refused to marry him. she prejudiced blinders include her boyfriend.
comment by lan.
- could you cite the sources of item 1 and 2?
ReplyDelete- I totally agree with you on item 1 and 3, but it seems to have some problems with item 2. I'm not sure in the first case whether it's discrimination or not. I think the type of bias is prejudice, not discrimination because the girl hated everyone (except her boyfriend), but she didn't take any action with them. In the second case, I agree with you.