Post #3 - VFW

Why VFW for a listening post?

Well, I recently had the chance to meet a Vietnam war veteran and although I didn't do anything to him he didn't seem to like me. While I might say it might have been a random occurrence of the universe it raised my curiosity.

From the ones I've found they seem to be pretty far apart so I'm going to have to plan my trips accordingly.

Post #2 - Implicit Association Test and Hiring Practice

Ok, lets get something straight, while I am a gamer I'm not very coordinated. When I took the exam I was slightly leaning towards a white preference and I guess that's about right but I'm not very coordinated. I'm sure that there might be some programmed limits in the simulation that take that into account.

Now, the hiring practice was something I gave a lot of thought too. I had to chose the employees for the Hispanic based market my choices weren't based on a negative bias like the Asian was going to be good with numbers. My choice for president was a Hispanic Woman, while no surprise for a Hispanic market I chose a Hispanic but the fact that I chose a woman comes from experience. Based on my experiences at Hispanic news stations the women run a tight shift and I made my choice based on that. At the moment the only other choice I remember is that I had chosen the Asian man for VP of Operations. While I know this might be another stereotypical choice I made it on the fact that Asian cultures tend to instill strong work-ethic and a strong sense of honor which is something that I thought could be of great use in that position.

All this makes me think about how to tread the waters of negative and positive stereotypes of cultures.

Post #1 - Innocent vs. Intentional

In class I talked about my story of when I moved to Chicago and was introduced to the class. For those who weren't there or don't remember when I moved to Chicago I transfered to a public school and they made me introduce myself to the class. For those of you who don't know Chicago's primary hispanic demographic was Mexican. I introduced myself as a Cuban-Nicaraguan as I always have. From the back I heard the comment, "Looks like another Mexican in the class." Now this greatly upset me but here's the thing, they weren't racists or anything, they were kids. For the two years that I spent there I got to know them better and discovered that the comment they made was nothing more the kiddy sarcasm of sorts. Something I'm learning is that when someone is new to an area or people they tend to have their own inside traditions and habits and learning to be patient with them is an important part of learning to deal with ethnicity and lifestyles.

Repair Post

I'll be re-adding posts #1 Innocent vs. Intentional and post #2 Implicit Test in a bit after this post.