One thing that struck me from reading the article was the notion that prejudice is formed as an attachment to an "in-group". I found that interesting that those kinds of observations or summations that people make are not formed in isolation. I completed the test for prejudices against skin tone. I believe that the point of answering as quickly as possible is to record your gut response which would reveal your prejudice, that being said the objective is to click correctly as if you are playing a computer game. The formatting of these tests that calls for individuals to deal with these 2 objectives simultaneously does not seem like it would collect a consistent and reliable data set. It was hoping for a test that would be formatted more creatively because in that way I would less clearly see how it is operating and possibly receive more surprising results.
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
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