I took the Race bias test, and it estimated that i have no Preference for either European or African Americans.. Meaning I don’t favor one over the other.. The test was very surface level, so i don’t know what it was Truly attempting to achieve.. This test was interesting because it focused on how quickly you could perceive a word with someone’s race.. That’s why I say it was surface level. As well as the fact the the words word used to describe people so generally .. I definitely got a few wrong primarily because my finger slipped, so the test isn’t really accurate to perception, more than it is reaction.
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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