Doing this test turned out how I expected. I've had a long standing bias of people who were older and in some cases of Latin decent. When I interact with elders, i tend to remove myself from the real world and i end up acting much differently than i do most of the time. I've recently have been having more conversations with people much older than me in Hope's to turn this around. I believe my bias comes from a place of fear rather than disrespect, I need to let my guard down. The other one was towards my own race. I think this comes from feeling free enough to joke around when it comes to my race that I've started to turn my ironic twists into things that never needed to be said. So it might be better off not doing so in the first place.
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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