Analysis: Learned Experience In Social Justice And Human Diversity

1. Learned Experience

Throughout the Social Justice and Human Diversity course, I obtained several knowledge and skills new to me. While I was working on my first assignment I have come to understand the suffering and plight of the transgender community in the United States. I had an assumption that this community had equal right and privilege like any other citizen in the country. I had this prior assumption because of what I came to know about the US through media. Like many of my compatriot, I used to believe that the US is one of the highly democratic countries that different identity lives with absolute freedom and has model democracy for the rest of the world. Coates read in his Between the World and Me that the country inflicts mortal

Additionally, realizing the systemic and internalized nature of oppression informs how the nature of the problem would be alarming and painful to the targeted people. The racial inequality and oppression toward African American were one of the identities that stood out for me during the class discussions and readings. This is because the course helped me to answer some of the recurrent questions I had about the living realities of the African America communities. Chronic challenges related to poverty, unemployment, crime, psychological wellbeing which dominantly African American are affected appear to me emerged from intergenerational racial injustice in the country. I have also understood how almost the entire aspects of African American lives impacted by the age-old racism. The huge socio-economic differences between white and African American can be one of the manifestations of the inequalities which the readings provided answers as to how the inequality has been internalized and perpetuated until present. To mention few the impact of the GI bill, access to loan from the bank, urban renewable program, and job opportunities are some the factors I learned how racism was systematically used to deprive the economic right of the African American community. The impact of these injustices accompanied by several

I realize that understanding of the culture that the people I work with are the key to successful intervention and outcome. Being sensitive to individual’s culture and acquire adequate knowledge about their cultural background enhance the productivity of the interaction I may have with a client that could be family, individual, community or organization. Understanding of one’s cultural background could also prevent and minimize employing biases which potentially harm the clients I work with. In view of this, I have learned that before I engaged in any activities with individual or group I should take the time to understand the cultural backroad of the person to get insight on what is acceptable and not in that culture. Furthermore, I have learned to identify and utilize one’s strength as a tool to aid the change processes the client and I desire for. Due to the dynamic nature of people’s culture updating myself to the emerging changes in a different culture would be one of the area of continued learning I am focusing. For instance, in the contemporary US society, I can see how the immigration brought several people with diverse culture to the US general population structure. Considering this I have been convinced to be knowledgeable and culturally competent to effectively address the needs of people I will work with in different setting.