Blog 7

In society we have the tendency to treat boys and girls differently and this is seen in the school systems. Boys are allowed to speak out with out being called on, whereas if a girl would do that she sees disciplinary actions. Both boys and girls should be treated the same. Boys shouldn't be able to speak out just because they are boys and girls shouldn't be disciplined on the things that boys do. I believe that girls are treated differently because since they are girls they should know better. Teachers are subconsciously treating kids differently because this is what society has taught us.
Also in schools boys are pushed towards math and science and girls are pushed away from those topics and towards English or art. Girls are seen as incompetent towards math and science they are seen to be not as smart in those ares compared to boys. When doing the tests it is shown that boys do better in math and science but this most likely has to d with because they are told they will do better so they do. We should push all programs the same and shouldn't tell either gender that they are better then the other gender.

While looking through you-tube I found a video that shows that girls are actually catching up to boys on math. The margins are narrowing and boys and girls are becoming somewhat equal.

sum blog 5

Society is built around people in majority groups and people in minority groups. People who are in the majority groups show discrimination to people in minority groups. We learned about the question of reverse racism and of the question of weather it can actually exist. Reverse racism puts us to question of if minority groups can discriminate against the majority group or if they have built up animosity for what they have been put through. There is also the question of if what the majority group does to the minority group if it is the same for the minority group to do the same thing to the majority group. We looked at how at the Mississippi college some students put a rope around the statute of the first black student. We talked about if it would be the same if there was a rope put around a white statue would the reaction be the same. The discussion turned into that it would not be the same because white people were not discriminated in that way. I feel that minority groups have as much right to discriminate against majority groups because we are all people and one group shouldn't have more right over another group. While thinking about groups showing discrimination to other groups I began thinking about how we find it acceptable for blacks or other minority groups to act white but we find it unacceptable for whites to act black. Not only is it unacceptable to act like the other group but whites also have to watch what they say in front of black people this leads me into the video that I found which is 50 things white people cannot say in front of black people.