When listening to the podcast, I thought it was really interesting hearing about how we tend to think and talk about culture in ethnic culture and never truly discuss how white culture (a topic that becomes controversial between people) is a default culture within America. We are all a part of many different cultures that we may not entirely realize. For some reason the topic of culture can be uncomfortable to think about for people – maybe partly as people believe that if other cultures become better represented then that will somehow harm ‘white culture’. Other cultures are certainly being better represented in media and film which does help to limit our implicit biases that lead to snap judgements.

I feel like I am generally pretty aware of other cultures and try to embrace other cultures in order to learn more about them and move past stereotypes. In the podcast it briefly talked about things like princess movies beginning to portray different cultures and I think this is really essential for younger generations in order to limit these stereotypes and biases at a young age. People have to go out of their way to take time to educate themselves as we cannot simply rely on the history that is learned in the classroom, the movies that pop up on TV, or a different genre of music that comes on to the radio. Some people are not willing to take the time to educate themselves as it may make them a little bit uncomfortable. This is the mindset that needs to be changed as culture is nothing to be intimidated by, but instead is something that is exciting for people to learn about.