When reading the book Interracial Communication Theory into Practice I, found that Stand point theory is based around one’s perceptions of the world being, largely influenced by social group membership. Our life experiences are shaped by interaction with other cultures and social groups such a race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and so on (Orbe, Harris 12). The two author’s research exemplifies that your experience with any race or culture effects how you view them. Another idea related to stand point theories is that social location shape people lives (12). “In simple terms, this concept helps people understand that a person’s racial/ethnic identity influences how that person experiences, perceives, and comes to understand the world around him or her “(12).
Furthermore, in an outside article I found that Stand point theory assumes that people have the same beliefs as the people of the social group they belong to. Your stand or perspective view is related to your knowledge and social inequalities. “Standpoint Theory presents us with another way of viewing the relative positions, experiences, and communication of various social groups. It has a clear political, critical bent, and it locates the place of power in social life. It has generated much controversy as people find it either offensive or compatible with their own views of social life. Certainly, ST is heuristic and provocative. The theory may be compatible with other theories, enabling us to combine them to get richer explanations for human communication behaviors “(West , Turner , 2004). Relatively to this article, a poor Asian American doesn’t view the world the same way a rich Caucasian does.
As a child I grew where some people would call “the hood” or “the ghetto”...
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Listening to other people in regards to their culture has brought me to gain knowledge about them. I think it’s interesting how people come to our country for a better opportunity and an education. To even fathom that in other parts of the world a woman with an education is looked down upon. I didn’t read up on this in a history class, my friend told how it was for her personally. I’ve had both positive and negative experiences with race; we will never be able to change how everyone feels. Some people with always be biased, prejudice, and racist and that’s simply unfortunate on their part.
Works Cited
Orbe, Mark P., and Tina M. Harris. Interracial Communication: Theory into Practice. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2008. Print.
West, Richard, and Lynn H. Turner. "Standpoint Theory." Standpoint Theory. Mcgraw Hill, 2004. Web. 09 Oct. 2013.
Race and ethnicity is a main factor in the way we identify others and ourselves. The real question here is does race/ethnicity still matter in the U.S.? For some groups race is not a factor that affects them greatly and for others it is a constant occurrence in their mind. But how do people of mix race reacts to this concept, do they feel greatly affected by their race? This is the question we will answer throughout the paper. I will first examine the battle of interracial relationship throughout history and explain how the history greatly explains the importance of being multiracial today. This includes the backlash and cruelty towards interracial couple and their multiracial children. Being part of a multiracial group still contains its impact in today’s society; therefore race still remaining to matter to this group in the U.S. People who place themselves in this category are constantly conflicted with more than one cultural backgrounds and often have difficulty to be accepted.
It’s all about perspective -- which has everything to do with our personal and collective experiences, which are consistently informed by race. From those experiences, from our histories, we build myths, legends that guide us and constrain us, legends that include both fact and fiction (1).
Hood: slang for neighborhood or black area/life. Before 1991 this concept of hood life was never before portrayed or looked into until John Singleton produced the black social drama Boyz N the Hood. This is the first film by a black director that actually goes deep inside the ghetto or inner city. Singleton carefully directs this film so that it appears to mirror the real world “having value as a kind of anthropological study of an unfamiliar way of life'; (Thompson 2).
Majete, C. (2000). Interracial Relationships. Retrieved March 20, 2005 from University of Phoenix Opposing viewpoints center.
Many would agree that segregation is no longer a pressing issue. Although it has been outlawed since 1954, society still implements a similar mindset, especially directed towards interracial dating. Some still believe that people of different races should not form relationships, while others deem it as acceptable. The following researchers use methods like surveys and interviews to analyze the connections between societal judgment and involvement in such relationships. Each study, providing slightly more insight than the previous, suggests the fear of social conflict creates skepticism towards mixed relations.
The social construction of race is the process of how interactions between different individuals shape society’s overall understanding of race. In this process, individuals differentiate which qualities and characteristic, such as skin color, belong to different racial groups. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, race is a symbol that represents individual’s sense of identity. Interactionists believe that individuals of the dominant race in society initiate racism through interactions with each other by sharing prejudices about other races. These one-on-one interactions are the basis of society’s social construction of race. Interactionists believe in the contact hypothesis, which states that increasing interracial interactions will decrease prejudice and promote equality in our society. Inevitably, society’s perception of different races will
...ground or where they are located in the world, it is ignorant to put these differences up as a way to distinguish one people from another, or to say that one race has greater hierarchal significance than another. These constructions provide insight into how people have come to see one another and can also help to see ways through which avoiding racism in modern society may one day be possible.
Why do people stare at interracial couples and feel betrayed by the person of the same race? How must the couple feel when people stare at them everywhere they go? In June of 1958, a white man and a half African-American and half American-Indian woman, both native citizens of Virginia, wed in South America. Not long after the marriage the couple returned back to the state of Virginia where they decided to establish a happy family. In October of 1958 the couple received an indictment charge, stating that the marriage had violated Virginia’s law of no interracial marriages. The couple was found guilty and was sentenced to one year in jail; however, the judge saw no harm in the marriage. If the couple would leave the state of Virginia, and not come back until another twenty-five years, he would suspend the sentence. Interracial marriages go through trials and tribulations.
Interpersonal Communication in an Intercultural Setting Cultural growth in the twenty-first century has heightened the emphasis on interpersonal communication in an intercultural setting. As our world grows, expands and becomes increasingly more interconnected by various technological advances, the need for effective interpersonal communication among differing cultures has become quite clear. Due to the advancement of technology in today's world, a world in which some businesspeople are involved in transactions with other businesspeople in faraway countries, the call for knowledge of intercultural communication within this setting has become a reality. Interpersonal communication is a form of communication that involves a small number of people who can interact exclusively with one another and who therefore have the ability to both adapt their messages specifically for those others and to obtain immediate interpretations from them (Lustig et al, 1993). Although interpersonal communication is usually thought of as being perf!
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Humans have been communicating since four million years. On the other hand, the birth of culture is estimated to have taken place about 35,000 years ago. Today, both culture and communication have evolved considerably and have become interdependent of one another, to the point that communication is considered to be a product of culture. Thus, our own culture has a deep impact on our thoughts and behaviors. Since each culture has its distinct aspects, intercultural communication can be the cause of conflict and disorder. There are three main issues which are at the root of the problem of intercultural miscommunication : language as a barrier, cultural diversity and ethnocentrism. I will analyze these three notions in situations in which intercultural communication is frequent such as : the workplace, the classroom and vacation trips.
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